It has been a busy and somewhat stressful summer. Having fun, but working very hard trying to get a few ideas moving. The information market research was intereting, but took a lot of attention. GroupCredit has been fun but hard - met with some Venture Capitals who liked the idea, but are worried about the competitive landscape. We are confident a $1 trillion market has enough room… at any rate, we would need to do a lot more work before we could take funding. We see GroupCredit as a 5+ year business, and it might not be the right time to pursue that, being in the middle of business school, and at the end of an economic cycle. We will see.
We have another idea. It is a big, exciting, fun, idea. BIG! And of course, we can’t share it. But we are working furiously to get talented developers to work with us and make it a reality. We would want to get this thing built and launched soon. Like by the end of the year. We stumbled upon this idea a few weeks into the summer, and have somewhat shifted focus to it for the time being.
It is hard being creative, having all these ideas, knowing that nothing will happen correctly without the proper amount of care and feeding, and thus meaning that you really need to pick one idea and make it work. When all your ideas are good, you start wishing you had multiple instances of yourself, so you could pursue them all…
We grievefor the loss of our two good friends and goldfish - OJ and Goldie. OJ died on the first true hot day of this summer, and Goldie followed him a few days later. These fish were centerpieces at our wedding, and we loved them dearly. I took this video of them a few short months ago, and am sharing it with you all so that they might be remembered as they were - playful, happy, and beautiful patterns of life.
Update: switching over to Flickr, until then photos unavailable
Christmas has come and gone again. Time is flying. Anyhow, Family Photos are available. I also made pop-art images of various family members, including my beloved and now dead (except Basil, far right) cats:
I applied for and was accepted into Harvard Business School, so this signals the end of my time at BAE SYSTEMS and the continuation of my trip down entrepreneurship lane! Francesca and I are very excited - we hope this makes it easier for us to build our ideas into reality for businesses and life. Special thanks for Francesca for supporting me through this time ;-).
Francesca Moyse and I were married on August 21, 2004, with the help of many of our friends and family. The most important and wonderful thing that has ever happened to me! We just spent two weeks in Kauai, photos of wedding and honeymoon coming soon…
Going back in time to document the facts… graduated from URI with a degree in Computer Engineering, and went to work at BAE SYSTEMS (remember, the bubble had burst, and the only people who wanted engineers were the ones making weapons… for which the post 9/11 world thirsted) in Nashua, NH.
Spent three years in Nashua, working full time, also participating in their Engineering Leadership Development Program wherein I met exciting people, my wife, and obtained an additional degree in engineering through WPI.
