Beginnings

My old building in Atlanta as she was the day after the tornado in March 2008. My condo inside is a tomb, closed by me on 31 July 2009. I miss the place, but not enough to go back. She will be rented, hopefully by the end of June closing another chapter of my life there.

Last week was a slam dunk, the project could not have gone any smoother. Things that I saw on the bench translated out in the field and that is a rarity. But, now comes the dangerous season. As much as I wanted to celebrate I know that we are in a crucial phase because the stakes have gotten higher. We have to scale this product up to an even larger size minimizing the issues we saw in the previous batch. This one will be for all the marbles. If we can achieve anything close to what was done last week, the business is ours. This is why you play the game, having the chance to get it all.

There are so many questions about this product and I surely don't have the answers for them. All I know is that aging and concentration play key roles, other than that I'm clueless. One big accomplishment was getting the team to believe in me and the program. In fact, that was bigger than the product working because these were some skeptical and non-confident folks, but our foot is in the door and it's time to kick it in.

Last week was more stressful than this one, but the notch is being turned up higher because we have to prove ourselves all over again.

No rest for the weary.