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O so cranky right now.
Due to my whack shcedule, sleep wasn't an option if I wanted to go to the 7:30 Cambridge Chamber of Commerce networking breakfast at the Radisson. (Tried to sleep a little anyways. It wasn't happening.) So stayed up all night to go to an event which I learned, about a quarter of the way through, was embarrassingly off-topic; all the attendees represented mature businesses who wished to sell services to other businesses; the goal of the networking was specifically seeking customers. And here I was, from a pre-production startup seeking funding so that we can provide anti-work services!
I figured this out sometime after a guy at the first table looked at me and disgustedly said "So... you're looking for money. Not customers." (The event was set up like speed dating, with people pitching at a tableful of local businessfolk, then everyone changed tables and did it again. It's actually a good idea, but the topic was just totally wrong for me.) I can't blame myself for this; the CCC website didn't name any topic beyond "business networking". I guess that chambers of commerce are just assumed to focus on business-to-business assistance? I did not know this. Oh well.
At the second table I explained that I was there due to a misunderstanding, and gave my pitch anyway. Not wondering what the hell I was doing there, this table was far more receptive than the first, and I received many smiles wishes for good luck, many from people who had done the scary startup thing themselves years earlier. An ad-space seller from the Herald was especially excited about the Volity idea, because I was describing something so very different from Grand Theft Auto, which is all he knows about modern digital games.
Other bright sides, vaguely: I was expecting to pay the full $70 non-member, walk-in attendance fee, but I guess they either thought I was a member or were feeling generous, and asked for only $35. Also, I am saving a couple hundred bucks on a CCC membership I won't be buying.
So collected some slight burn-experience, and a little good karma, but that's about it. Then I came home, played some Mario DS (this game is so good) and slept from 10:30 to 4:30, making me officially the most vampiric I have ever been. And now I have to find my script so I can go to rehearsal for this radio play thing, which I half-regret volunteering for now... I really didn't think it through as to all the time it'd take in rehearsal. Aaargh. Oh well.
I won't be sleeping tonight, though I'll likely be sleepy and half-dead anyway. Probably I'll just keep myself awake through the Gameshelf shoot in a possibly vain attempt to have a "normal" schedule again. Wish me luck.
Due to my whack shcedule, sleep wasn't an option if I wanted to go to the 7:30 Cambridge Chamber of Commerce networking breakfast at the Radisson. (Tried to sleep a little anyways. It wasn't happening.) So stayed up all night to go to an event which I learned, about a quarter of the way through, was embarrassingly off-topic; all the attendees represented mature businesses who wished to sell services to other businesses; the goal of the networking was specifically seeking customers. And here I was, from a pre-production startup seeking funding so that we can provide anti-work services!
I figured this out sometime after a guy at the first table looked at me and disgustedly said "So... you're looking for money. Not customers." (The event was set up like speed dating, with people pitching at a tableful of local businessfolk, then everyone changed tables and did it again. It's actually a good idea, but the topic was just totally wrong for me.) I can't blame myself for this; the CCC website didn't name any topic beyond "business networking". I guess that chambers of commerce are just assumed to focus on business-to-business assistance? I did not know this. Oh well.
At the second table I explained that I was there due to a misunderstanding, and gave my pitch anyway. Not wondering what the hell I was doing there, this table was far more receptive than the first, and I received many smiles wishes for good luck, many from people who had done the scary startup thing themselves years earlier. An ad-space seller from the Herald was especially excited about the Volity idea, because I was describing something so very different from Grand Theft Auto, which is all he knows about modern digital games.
Other bright sides, vaguely: I was expecting to pay the full $70 non-member, walk-in attendance fee, but I guess they either thought I was a member or were feeling generous, and asked for only $35. Also, I am saving a couple hundred bucks on a CCC membership I won't be buying.
So collected some slight burn-experience, and a little good karma, but that's about it. Then I came home, played some Mario DS (this game is so good) and slept from 10:30 to 4:30, making me officially the most vampiric I have ever been. And now I have to find my script so I can go to rehearsal for this radio play thing, which I half-regret volunteering for now... I really didn't think it through as to all the time it'd take in rehearsal. Aaargh. Oh well.
I won't be sleeping tonight, though I'll likely be sleepy and half-dead anyway. Probably I'll just keep myself awake through the Gameshelf shoot in a possibly vain attempt to have a "normal" schedule again. Wish me luck.
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Don't worry. If you're not already amazed at how you find contacts that might suit what you're doing, you should be. Network all you can. Yep, sounds like this wasn't for you, but doesn't mean you have to bail out on ALL of them in the future. Just get an agenda first before you sign on to show.
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