A road show of sorts
Mary and I are in the process of figuring out what we want to create next. The process is an interesting, somewhat daunting, and definitely exciting one. We read blogs, read the newspaper, read books, talk to our selves (yes – sometimes talk to myself – but also have conversations with Mary), and talk to friends, acquaintances, business associates, and investors. Frankly – anyone who will listen – but even more important – anyone who will talk to us and with us. We also write (Mary is much better at this part than I am).
This trip to New York and Boston has included conversations with two investors in Sapias, Inc., a meeting with a former associate of ours at Netcentives who is chairman of the board of a company he founded, dinner with a former associate of ours when we were working with Powersoft, and their PowerBuilder product 10-15 years ago, and a visit to Talking Points Memo, a political blog portal (our nephew is associate editor).
All have been great conversations. Some with advice of specific companies, some with advice on questions to answer about anything we get into (see my earlier post), some have included discussions of their favorite potential investment possibility, or current project.
My own thoughts (I was going to say ours – but I can’t speak for Mary) are swirling – what is the right way to dig in to this. And the answer so far is to keep digging, thinking, probing. And Mary and I need to start filling in some of our ideas of what we might want to create.
Jim on June 11th 2007 in Companies
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mpanttaja responded on 11 Jun 2007 at 11:03 am #
Roadshow is cute: who is watching who? It feels as if the world is the show and we are the watchers.
It will be a challenge to craft the analysis on the variety of dimensions on which we need to make a decision from life style (should we retire? move overseas? volunteer our efforts to some cause?); to business type (consulting, writing, product, services, b&b, beach shop?); to technical content (what kind of product, in what markets?); to the roles we want to play (entrepreneurs, employees, founders, partners?).
Pretty much everything is on the table this time.
Bruno Del Vecchio responded on 13 Jun 2007 at 6:50 am #
Jim,
I see from your notes that you were previously involved in the same industry (ref: Sapias, by the way I heard they were purchased last week.) I too struggle with what I want to do after this career. Like many I refer to that next step as to when I grow up. While you are a technologist and get pulled by inventing cool stuff, I am a technology futurist and can clearly see markets developing needs.
Put the two of us together and we could be a creative powerhouse
. Bruno