Building Multiple Startups At The Same Time

The gift my father gave me is something that may be slipping from our culture. I don't think I've ever mentioned the idea to my own children, and I'm not sure it was or is learned in school each generation like they do a playground song or game "ring around the rosy" "Simon says".

It's the belief in "The American Dream". The idea of you can do anything and be anything you want in America. The dream is filled with hope, and the thoughts of success are here for everyone, and anyone. Yeah, my dad, he loved "the American dream, " he was filled with it, overflowed with it, but he never chased it. 

He was a sightseer of the American Dream. Every time he saw someone inventing some great idea he would point it out to me. "Can you believe someone made a million dollars from that?" he would say to me. I remember growing up in school, the American dream was there too. Us kids always dreaming about how it would be ours one day. It was one of the greatest fantasy's of childhood.

Now I'm Building Multiple Startups At The Same Time

Yep, I can't help it, my dad's gift to me became an infection in my soul that spread into my brain. For some reason or another I'm producing a bit of a surplus. Darn it! It's getting a little bit hard. 

I can't not chase them. I can't just write down some notes on one and say, oh when I'm done pushing DigiThin, to someplace better, then I will work on the next one. No, it doesn't work like that in my brain. If the brain wants them out, I have to do something about them now. 

EavesdropApp has been bugging my head for a few months. It's getting mad at me because I haven't gotten too far with it. Ugh, okay, I'm working on it!

My new one has been swirling in my head about two weeks now. I couldn't really pin it down. A whisper of a thought shot out, but the idea was almost like it wasn't really formed enough to even be a thought. It was more like I could feel it, but not be able to think it. As it spun around my brain it picked up a little piece of information from all the data in my head, and spit out another piece to me last night. 

"Ahhh, you mother f*****, there you are!" the swirling thought drops into my lap, and I have another baby startup to build. Who put this startup slot machine in my head; and it keeps landing on three "Build Me Now" matching tiles? 

Hmmm : - ) this is the part of The American Dream that's not part of the dream. It's the part you only get to experience if you chase The American Dream, if you decide to no longer be a sightseer. 

Happy Fathers Day Dad. I love you!

The Crazy Part Of Crazy: Building Startups

When I talk about being crazy, it's not like a nut freak who does bad things in society. No, my crazy is about being creative, having drive, dreams and desires to build funny things called startups. Oh those wild ideas that you can turn virtually nothing into something. Yes, that kind of crazy.

The insanity that comes with my type of personality is well, just over the edge from every normal person in my life who, goes to college, gets a career and works in that field their entire life. I am so not like them. 

I often look at the people in my life and wonder why they do it. To me they seem like such normal people. Sometimes I even wish I was like them. If I were, then I wouldn't have to be consumed by the crazies in my mind. Those people whom I deem normal, seem perfectly satisfied with going to the same job day in and day out. Sometimes they hate their job and find another one just to hate that one too.

Me, I'm Always Thinking About What I Want To Create.

I'm always searching for that one idea that can help a million people. That can make a million people happy. That can have impact on a million lives. I wonder what normal people think about? What is it that makes my mind so different then them?

Most people don't know that I've been building startups since I was 11 years old. For many years these startups I built were only in my mind. A fantasy, a daydream of something I wanted to create. Then I started taking steps to get the thoughts out of my head and onto paper, then into prototype. Eventually all the ideas ended up in a file cabinet, I took some only so far, just to give up, quit, it seemed useless to keep going. 

My All The Way Startup

Now I'm at the place where I decided "so it's not the greatest idea in the world, but I can take it all the way" DigiThin. That's my all the way startup. You see I have nothing else to do with my life, so might as well take it all the way. Even if I'm 90 when either I finally give up, and call it a failure, or most likely I will be building many more ideas between now and the age of 90. So DigiThin can stay alive, there is no reason for it not to. 

The Plague Of Ideas

Currently I am plagued with another "Great idea" or a big dose of crazies is running rampant in my brain. Of course I'm going to chase it, as long as it keeps taunting me. I've already run into obstacles, and my entrepreneur mind says "oh, lets find our way around those" and that's what I do. I have to build eavesdropApp, I just have to. Because I see it in my brain. I see every little detail of how it's going to work. I also see why it didn't work in the past for others who have already had the similar idea. It's a different time, now. Technology has advanced. EavesdropApp wants to be built. So it landed in my brain and it wants me to build it.

Is there any coders out there that would like to join a startup? We can take eavesdropApp all the way, I have no doubt. And it scales ever so much more then DigiThin. 

; - )  

Talk to me jana@digithin.com