Thursday, November 13, 2014

Looking For A Trailer Trash Accelerator

I was chatting with my lawyer and he was sorry my team did not get selected for Y Combinator's winter program. I was feeling pretty down about many things going on in my life lately, not just the YC disappointment. I was feeling as if I had lived my life as nothing more than a dreamer who always fails. I big fat failure. Some sort of white trash pathetic loser. Why do I think I can go up against all those other teams filled with brilliant people who know how to spell and write a paper with no grammar mistakes?

To think I would ever have a chance at getting into the number one accelerator in the world, well that's just a false dream of hope in my head. As we chatted I said that no accelerator would ever accept me into their program unless it was a trailer trash accelerator. I have a long list of skills and all of them are about as good, as useless. If any one of them stood out strong enough maybe it could carry me. As you can see, I'm still feeling sorry for myself! I hate falling into self pity, but when your entire life has a closet full of failed startups, among a long list of ofter disappointments, well maybe I'm justified to feel down for a bit.

My team is carrying on with Passdown. We are working on many things, including getting the app built and released. I'm building an alternate website to do A/B testing, I'm also deciding if we should split the company into two. A nonprofit for the data storage side and a for profit for the social network auction side. 

This morning I stopped by Fort Logan National Cemetery to film an info video about
Passdown. It was just a test day. It was a beautiful -4 degrees fahrenheit. The video test gave me some great info. First I recorded the entire thing upside down. That's because I rigged up a car cell phone holder to a pole and when I snapped in my cell, I didn't realize it was upside down. I suppose that's the trailer trash side of me at work. I could use my tripod and camera, but my cell seems to take better photos and videos. 

If you know of any trailer trash accelerators, let me know, I will apply! ; - )


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