Peoples Reaction To The Ultrasound Of A Startup

Another day lived. Another telling someone about my new Startup Passdown. Here again the response is like nothing I have ever experienced. I told my boss at my day job, and she said "Well I think this one can make it, this is GOOD!...Yah, I like this one!,this is, WOW!" As she looked at my cell phone of slides I had made for an upcoming public presentation of Passdown. I watched her, and I could see that I had  captured her into the magical world of mesmerizing feelings people are expressing to me, about Passdown.

She watched me build DigiThin and witnessed it's death at it's birth. A stillborn startup it was. So many of us Entrepreneurs have had to bury a few dead babies. It's painful. 

Oh, life comes around again with a new baby startup, and the people are expressing joy at seeing the ultrasound of it. I have to say it's been a really short pregnancy for this startup. I only felt the idea in May. I couldn't think the thoughts of what it was, but I felt it. I felt this startup growing inside me. 

Then in June it started leaking out bits and pieces of thoughts, giving me bricks to start building. I had signed up for the summer Venture Deals class by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson. I decided that I would use Passdown as my class project. 

Now most of the other people in the class had actual startups they were working on. But to me, mine was just a fake company. A made up company to pretend about. 

I started a team and asked quite a few people to join it, and only one beautiful daring person signed on to work with a crazy woman like me, Chapman! We stumbled all over this very hard class, and he played along with the fake company Passdown. No one in the class including the teachers, raised an eyebrow about Passdown. 

Pretty much, I felt like I achieved about a C- in the class. It was really fucking hard. The thing is, the class was nutrients for the baby startup to grow. And Passdown was feeding me all kinds of bricks to bring it alive.

By the middle of July, I started building Passdown for real. Still no real reactions from anyone in the class. No matter! None of my ideas ever incited much of a reaction other than "Oh, that's nice" But this baby kept spewing out more information to me, and from what I learned in the class, I could see, the target market was everyone who is connected. Now that's a big ASS market. How could I not keep tinkering with the creative?

So you see, it's only been, about two and half months since I started building Passdown. This is extremely unusual I would say. I'm going to release the beta sign up site within the next 13 days. Of course I don't have the baby built. (hopefully by Spring 2015 or sooner) I do think that it needs a bit of incubation time. It needs a ton of CODE written. A whole lot of legal, and I need a mother fucking kick ass team! 

Yet, I'm not the one wanting to be born, Passdown is. It's the idea that festers inside of an entrepreneurs head. Yeah, those ideas are babies that nag at you to help them be born. Now, how can anyone pass up helping a cute babies request? I can't.

I don't like to brag, but, hey I think you might want to see the ultrasound. You too could become captured! : - )