It's been a whirlwind of a summer. My brain has been working overtime, as my sleep is filled with the search to build the best playlist conversion software. My days are filled with the day job, and of course my family, my dog,and chores. Somehow I find a way to work on the startup AMAP.
Startups are not without problems, in fact a startup usually is a problem you are solving, and you have to solve four hundred million other problems you didn't plan on solving, but you have to, to get the startup to move in a positive direction.
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| Startups Start As A Tangled Web Of Problems |
Today I pitched Kazamster in an elevator to Venture Capitalist,and Angel investors. It was an event for Denver Startup Week. The city I live in. It's the 5th year of this amazing week. Whoever started this startup week thing, I thank them. This is a great benefit to Denver's entrepreneurial community. There are tons of learning courses and all kinds of cool things offered and the best part is that, it's all free!
I wrote my pitch and memorized it yesterday. We had about a minute to ride the elevator down and up, so my pitch was 53 seconds. Well, I was so nervous that I was done by the time we were halfway through the ride. I must have spoke so fast that, they probably didn't even understand what I was saying. The thing is, this one woman kept asking me questions when I was done. It was like she didn't care the ride was over and there were one hundred other startups pitching. She wanted to know more about me, and more about this Playlist thing.
The weird frozenness that had encapsulated my body somehow answered her questions. I think they all knew I was terrified. But I also think, they knew exactly the truth I told them. Kazamster has this magical draw to it, and this is the problem I'm having with the creator of it. I don't think Tom knows what he created. Maybe he is self conscious like I was with the startups I created. I couldn't push them, because I created them, and I didn't believe in them if people judged them. Well I did, but If someone said something negative about the product I created, I'd fall to pieces. I just couldn't stand behind my ideas. Yet when I joined Kazamster it was the most freeing thing ever. I found that I could stand behind someone else's idea one hundred percent! It is so much easier to do, then believe in what you created.
Cheers! to everyone who has the courage to pitch! I applaud you! It's very hard to do.
