Doin Work!

Happy Friday! Adam and I's life has been a straight up whirlwind these past few weeks. Between juggling our actual jobs, BumblePost and keeping our instanity- we have literally been nonstop. I woke up at 4am this week to Adam awake checking his email just to give you a glimpse!

We applied to a tech-start up incubator called TechStars. Their summer program is held in Boulder and starts on May 9, 2010- lasting 3 months. They are expected to get over 1000 applicants for their summer session this year, because honestly, its that awesome of a program. Its a mentorship program that allows a company to basically get in touch and very involved with successful business people. They say, you get more done at TechStars in a summer, than you would in a year. That's how non-stop, amazing it. And at the end, you get to present to 200+ venture capitalists from across the US. They only accept 10 companies into the program and the top 25 finalists are announced on March 27th and the final 10 announced sometime in April. I would cry if we got in.

Anyways, read back a few posts, but we got invited to TechStars for a day. We were in the 5% of applicants that got accepted to their day event. My genius of a husband decided we needed to make Tees for the event to stand out (there were 40 teams there). Man, am I glad we did. Our shirts looked great, and we were only 1 of 2 other companies that sported their brand. So we stood out just because of that. I was one of 2 (maybe 3) other girls there and overall, it was a fantastic, exhausting day. We talked to soooo many people, got a chance to work on our pitch and got lots and lots and lots of feedback. It was just Adam and I at the event, and driving home that night- I was on information overload.

The past few days have been spent filtering the feedback we got and deciding what we are going to do with it. Basically, we need to launch this B, but we are transitioning developers and things just aren't moving quite as quickly as I would like them to. But soon, so soon!

Wednesday, we went to another TechStars event, got some even better conversations going and it was amazing. Everywhere you turn at these things- its like, oh there's the CEO of xyz company and there's the CEO of ABC company and not only that, we had several long conversations with these people about BumblePost and got great feedback. Its has been an experience I can't quite explain. We will talk to one mentor and they will be like "That's not an interesting idea to me...." then we will turn around and talk to another and they are like "I love it, can't wait to see what you guys do with it. Call me if you need anything, etc. " I mean, feedback is ALLLL over the place and it has been a learning/growing experience for sure.

There are a million uncertainties right now. If we were blessed enough to make it into the program, we would be living in Boulder for the summer- but this is literally the least of the uncertainties right now! Just being patient and trying to get as much stuff done each day as we can :)

Have a great weekend!