Day 1

This is actually day 2, because the idea to blog the first 100 days of our startup came to me on day 2 and I wrote this today. But I made the blog and posted the first entry on day 3 because I was too tired on day 2. Wow. Counting every day is a pain.

This blog will chronicle the startup of a new and fantastic web application named mytimetrails.com. It will tell the world (or whoever is interested) about the ups and downs of going from absolutely nothing and nowhere to the hall of internet fame. If the startup starts...

Day 1 went like this:

We drove around Wichita all morning, looking for office space. They have these temporary leasing warrens now, old converted strip mall stores partitioned out into cubes and offfices, with the standard over-stuffed furniture, mirrors and plaster sculpture, as well as common computers, fax and printers. They cost about $500/month for an enclosed office, $300 for a cube.

Then we went to Mead's Corner, a really nice little downtown coffee house. We set up laptops, talked, drank coffee, and I emailed an old business associate (actually my former boss and himself an accomplished entrepreneur named Mark asking if he knew of office space.

So he met us a half hour later - seems he is personally leasing rooms his old office building, the Stables. We do the deal, on the spot, he waives deposit since I worked for him two years of my life, we get an office for $400 which comes out of my grocery money. Hope the wife doesn't mind.

Day 1 was a success. We got into an office, and that's the most important thing (hmmmm).