Ahhh…some time to journal, and to decompress, music for my soul. It’s been the rare occasion where I find myself with a bit of time to reflect, ponder, and sit back - just for a moment. It’s 8PM and I’m at the office, our office that sits above my cafe.
There’s laughter outside on the cafe’s patio, where families, friends and other interested-yogurt-eaters gather with smile and yogurt in hand, slurping up the last remnants of their cup of deliciousness as if Spring was almost over. It’s days like this that really get me going for some reason. Especially days like today where the air is filled with flowery notes, and cinnamon-sweet-spice, pushed by the velvet breeze just around the corner: I love Spring.
Tomorrow, I head to San Francisco. One of my partners and I are having a meeting with Joyent. Joyent recently inducted us into their Players Club and they’re going to help us scale our back-end infrastructure for our social-application venture. We’re thrilled and honored to be a part of Joyent’s club, and even more happy to know that they have our back. We have numerous competitors in the social networking space. Each competitor is vying for your attention and page views - the coin of land, where a thousand page views equals about $0.40 to $0.60 on the dollar. Not much, I suppose, but they SURE do add up!
My other business partner, Dewey, is at the office too. He was downstairs for a moment handling customer orders before heading up stairs to get some work done. These past few months have been some of our toughest months in the social network scene. We’ve had plenty of ups, and also plenty of downs. Sometimes you think you’ve nailed it, a blockbuster, then only weeks later to see it fizzle out and level off. Each project, each application, encapsulated in it is the team’s hope for something more, for something closer to bringing us to our American dream. It is this expectation that drives us to work the way we do. And why we work the terrific hours towards that end. Most times, we fail to live up to our own expectations, we don’t need anyone else to point that out to us; however, we’ve also made some fantastic gains that have exceeded all of our expectations.
A couple of days ago, a friend from school came by, Charles. He just returned from China and left me with a handful of China’s currency. It’s incredible to me to see the world get smaller and smaller. To see more people acquiring enough disposable income to travel and experience the world, especially people outside the U.S.
Well, now, I’m just rambling. Time to prepare for tomorrow’s trip.
- Mark (not caffeinated enough!)