Week Note #236
19 July 2010
Starting a company is a mind boggling process. Both positively as well as negatively.
First of, it’s really amazing how many people are willing to help out as soon as you start talking about the plans to do some stuff. Luckily, I do know a lot of people who did this before and are sharing a lot of insight that can only be accumulated through experience. Some things you just can learn by either doing them or being told by somebody who has been there before.
And that’s why I want to thank ever body, who shared their ideas, thoughts and support with me (us). Your know how is unimaginably helpful and we’re happy that we don’t need to do all the mistakes by ourselves.
The bad part isn’t a big surprise: the bureaucracy. On one hand, it’s kind of less than I actually expected, but it is enough so that one can see exactly the flaws in the system and where it needs improvement. Some things are just not logical and without the insight from friends and family, we would have walked into some serious trouble. Not because we’re stupid, but mostly because there is no logic behind some of the processes.
That being said, there is of course still my daily job and it’s still full of pitches. Not sure why we have so many pitches in the summer – that’s the time where everything is a bit quieter, just before the planing phase that usually starts in September -, but we sure have enough of them to keep everybody way more busy than we would like. I myself am currently involved in the largest pitch ever that I’ve been part of. At least budget wise. There is a good team working on it in Bonn and I’m very much looking forward to what we will make happen.
Overall, it looks like I will keep traveling for a bit. At least on the weekends. I’ve been to Berlin this weekend and it looks like I’m going to be back next weekend as well. If you want to meet up, just shout.
(I know, that I’m wage about most of the details concerning whatever it is that I’m doing in the future. And I’m sorry for that, but I promise that I will write more as soon as it’s possible. There are some communication restriction that need some overcoming. We will get there. Soon.)