OUR FIRST CALL!

day eight in the desert, and although i typically hate using capital letters, WE MADE OUR FIRST CALLS TODAY!!!   AND ON THE THIRD CALL, WE MADE OUR FIRST SALE!!!   

HOLY FUCK!!!!!!!!

this is vicky, one of our first "experts." this is her making the first sale for expert planet.  good job vicky. 

tomorrow i fly back to nyc, where i'm sure it's 50 degrees colder.

tonight's dinner shall be steak and and a bottle of wine...

phoenix rising...

hmm, i've waited 38 years to visit phoenix, and i arrive at a hotel with 1/2 a roll of TP, a pen tha's been chewed on, and a front desk that has no travel tooth brushes.  lucky for me there's a wallgreen's a block away.

here doing a bit of training for the Expert Planet agents we've recruited...  we shall be making our first calls next week!  staying the weekend, and hope to play a little golf.  it's been a few months so i imagine my swing is a bit rusty.  oh well.  beats hanging in NYC in sub-zero weather.

  

week two...

this is fun.  i can't say it's exactly what i expected from joining a start-up, but it's pretty close.  we're in a fun office environment, a fun 'hood, and the three of us (matt, steve, me) seem to be laughing and telling ridiculous jokes all day long.  

it's an odd situation i guess, as we're not trying to find start-up money (we've got that), and we're not trying to find clients (they can't wait to get started with us).  we just have to productize and test our way into a working (and profitable) model.  

so, we've got clients waiting, and we know what we want to do. it's a question of how fast we can build it...  

it's the opposite of  'field of dreams' i suppose...  they've come, and we need to build it!

NOTE TO SELF: stop blogging and get back to work

day four means pizza...

matt is back in the office after three days of the flu, so we went to patsy's pizza for lunch (what better way is there to cure the flu?).  

i imagine patsy's will be in the weekly rotation of lunch spots...  very tasty AND they played the smiths the entire time we were there!

back in the office, we're putting more detail around the four million things we need to do before our first program launch... 

god speed...

it's day three and...

i'm sitting in our new office in union square all alone.  it's peaceful at the moment.  s.s. is traveling, and m.d. is sick for the second straight day, complaining of fever and explosive vomiting.    

this office is very quiet.  puzzling, given we are sharing office space with a multitude of start-ups like ours, albeit with much younger - and certainly hipper - employees.  i would have assumed it would be a bit more rowdy.   

i've just finished up a tech spec for the expert planet website, and in a moment i will begin drafting a list of the four million things we need to do over the next month to get project #1 up and running.  

as i look at the list of seemingly impossible tasks, i can't help but wonder how the three of us will get them all done.  help!