10Sept 2007

Big news to announce

September 10th, 2007 | Birth of a Startup Ruminations

Its quite startling to sit here and attempt to summarise what the last 2 months have meant to my startup. The last time I wrote to you was the eve of my departure from Sydney for 7 week trip overseas. The trip – besides being fun – had the following goals: developing a stronger bond […]

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25Jun 2007

Am I wrong to be pedantic?

Its been a long time since we started developing my site… many many months. It is a relatively complex application, and I have the extra challenge of financing it with my own savings, and using a (brilliant) team of developers in Europe, whilst I sit here in Sydney… so its not too terrible that its […]

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19Jun 2007

Still going…

Apologies again for my lax communication. Its just that the message has not changed overly. I’m still almost there, but not quite ready for public consumption. Sometimes I think its just that I’m terribly pedantic and proud, but there are some pretty major bugs in it still, which are getting worked on, but just not […]

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9May 2007

The final touches

This is the frustrating part. My site, my darling site, that has taken almost a year to coax into being, that is almost ready, is still not launched! Its almost ready, but some major issues are holding off its full launch. The Homepage is the main thing – a designer friend has kindly offered to […]

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26Apr 2007

Being frugal

The challenge with starting a business using your own savings, is you have to try to achieve elegance while being stingy. A few of my challenges at the moment: I need a legal opinion on my site so I can get public indemnity insurance. Just to get the Terms of Use document written is $4000. […]

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25Apr 2007

I’ve launched softly

A massive apology to those kind souls who have been supportive and interested in my burgeoning business. I have been terribly recalcitrant in keeping this blog up to date, instead distracted by the ever demanding nature of work and late nights. I have lots of good news though to finally impart. Although not yet launched, […]

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5Apr 2007

Life-long ambitions

April 5th, 2007 | Birth of a Startup

I have been extraordinarily busy. What with working a full-time job, trying a launch my business (which is very close!), in the midst of starting a second one, trying to stay fit, see family, have a vague concept of a social life… well, sleep is definitely the thing that is suffering, but I figure I […]

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25Mar 2007

It’s been a while…

Apologies for my scarcity of entries lately. Life has been tough and busy lately. My day job has gotten hugely demanding, and I’m on the verge of launching my business. Life has become all about work at the moment, and my sleep levels, social life and exercise regime have suffered. I keep thinking surely this […]

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13Mar 2007

Writing an ‘About us’

For the last few days I have been in issue logging mode. Days and days of testing, describing issues, thinking analytically about flow and logic and aesthetics. Now, my beleaguered developers have an avalanche of issues to deal with (bless them, they are getting through them valiantly), and I can turn my attention to all […]

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