Phil801 - Geek Blog

We’ve been watching for the light at the end of the tunnel - it’s there now.

I spent part of the day reading back through most of the blog posts and comments from the last month coming from and about our new company. It’s interesting to read through them and remember the emotions and thoughts that we moved through individually and as a team. I think the biggest lesson I’ve learned is that even when you have a huge amount of faith in something, it’s very difficult to constantly keep positive about it, especially when people you trust are telling you that you’re crazy. The last month has been an emotional roller coaster and our blogs reflect a lot of that. The best metaphor I can think of for the last month (6 weeks) is one of being thrown into a large pit of alligators, being able to see the way out, and having to fight together as a team in order to make it there.

Along the way things did get scary at some points and in a lot of ways, they still are. In those moments, we were willing to grasp onto almost anything that seemed like an opportunity to help stretch our survival out. Looking back at them, I realize that some of the things we did were somewhat unprofessional. That’s over now. I’m a strong believer in instant course correction and being that I’m at the helm of things here, I’m going to be doing some of that.

It would have been great (and a whole different story) to have had some lead time to prepare for what we just went through. It would have been a lot easier on our families if a few events had gone slightly differently. It definately would have been nice if we had started this with some funds on hand and had been able to ease into things financially. BUT - if is was well prepared, easy on our families and well funded it wouldn’t have been as valuable an experience andwe wouldn’t have had this opportunity to grow together. I’m grateful for what we’ve just experienced.

Would I do it again if we could go back in time - ABSOLUTELY. Will I do it again if things don’t go well for us - without a doubt.

So, here’s to living the dream, experiencing levels of desperation and moving through levels of excitement.