Come for the Ride!

As we all know, there’s nothing sexier than a confident, smart and knowledgeable woman who can take the helm and run the show. If your current startup happen to have these women as a part of your co-founding team, you may want to consider participating in Pitch 2008, a business competition for women based start-ups.

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If I was setting up a new web company as short as a year ago, I would have had a ton of headache worrying about web hosting, email management, Intranet and communication tools for my team. For my startups, this is on the top of my list for pulling the team together via a virtual office. The chore is still important even today but luckily things are much easier now.

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Convolute: highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious;

Convolute is something you don’t want to do in business. We seem to still be working out the small number of convoluted ideas we had about our database schema, but we’re getting better at streamlining everything. Example: Work and Business addresses are the same thing, no matter the user. Be it for individual visiting our site or a business who posts their wares on our site, the phone at their place of business is still their work phone number.

It’s not easy to find a good team that you know you can trust to build your business on. Early in our companies creation, we had a few discussions that developers have a mindset (I’ve felt this before in my past) that we are the center of any computer / online based startup. Without our coding ability, the company is nothing. We’re irreplaceable and how dare you question our methods for coding? I’m recently realizing that developers are a, for the most part, a unique group of people. They are used to doing things their own way. They often program for their own enjoyment and answer only to themselves for a majority of their coding career (when younger). They have only themselves to rely upon for learning all their programming skills and thus they aren’t used to being led by others.

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My father has this saying, “Never stop learning.” He’s in his mid-70s and he’s always trying to learn new things. Mind you, he has a B.S. in Chemistry, Masters of Public Health and a Ph.D in Toxiology, so he’s got no shortage on knowledge already stored up in his noggin. With this said, every challenge you take up in life should be a learning experience. You should be looking to expand your horizons and grown in your professional. Without going beyond what you normally do and what you already know, you tend to stagnate.

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