Part 2: Reactions To My New Startup Passdown

The crazy woman is on the loose. Yep, I'm building again, but I never stopped. I was always doing something on DigiThin until the day I pivoted right into my new startup idea. 

Oh, I am wild. I am funny, I am seeking the something born into me to create. I am the one who has to find it and dig it out of me. 

I have told different people, different versions of what my new startup is. This is because by talking to them I am actually forming the ideas "verbal presents." I know what it is in my head. The problem is the passage from the thoughts in my brain to the mouth. The wires get crossed. Some people see it as this way, and others see it as some other way. So I practice the route of the way out of my head that my idea must travel to get the most accurate version of what Passdown is, or does.

Apparently the route I used on my lawyer Josh and Myra, was the best route to the truth living in my brain. It is this route I hope in all my works that I will be able to convey that to you. To the people whom will benefit from Passdown.

Countless rambling descriptions of what it is, has been slashed and re-written. I have hacked the words up over and over. I want the most simple, fast and easy to read version. 

Last night I was again at my 'day job.' Watching human hearts beat in all kinds of messed up beats. Hardly any of them had a song in them. Oh my weeping heart for the sick and the suffering. I thought about what Myra and I had talked about. She had this story about some sort of humanitarian organization she had done an internship with. She seemed to be focused on one thing that I should need to know. Going Viral. It can make you want to take your clothes off and run down the street naked! 

Wait, what? Apparently the founder of this organization had run down the street naked after something the company did went viral. She said "he had a meltdown and went crazy."

I was going over in my mind what Myra and I had talked about the night before. This night I was working with someone else, and she was quite. So I had time to think about what Myra had told me. For some reason Myra was warning me. I think it's because she thought Passdown had some sort of possibility of going viral. She was worried for me. She didn't want me to become like the founder of the organization she had worked for. She didn't want me to run down the street buck naked! Damn, now that's crazy. 

I admit to my craziness often in my blog. I am aware of it. I also am aware that it is part of the gift of creativity, yet I don't see myself running down the street naked. If I do, please take lots of pictures! : - ) It could make you a ton of paparazzi cash. 

Still, her concern to bring up this story was important to her. She wanted to warn me about the possibility of going viral, as it could lead to unpredictable behavior in a founder. Hmmm

The thing about viral is, you can take steps to try to create it to happen or you can just never worry about it, and if and when it goes viral. Be happy! Some people are so shocked that they went viral a year after they posted a youtube video. To them the story is long over, and all of a sudden they are famous! I do not know what it would be like to go viral, but I am almost positive I will not run down the street naked. 

If Passdown went viral the only thing I think I might do is get drunk and do druken posting. : - ) yep, guilty! Thank goodness you won't have to see me naked. That could be frightful! 

Reactions To My New Startup Passdown

There I was at work, at my day job, which is really the graveyard shift. I call it the "day job", because it's the job I'm going to quit when my startup takes off. Or at least that was the plan with my last startup, but I'm still there, so you kinda know why.

I was working with Myra in the tele room. The telemetry room is the heart monitor room. I work at the nearby hospital on the heart floor, and the tele room is where I watch up to 48 hearts beating through the night. It's the 911 center of your heart, if you happen to be a patient. If your heart has any issues, I know about it first. 

Myra was married just a few weeks ago and I had not seen her since her wedding vacation. I had only worked with her once before and I had taken a liking to her great personality right off the bat. Myra is a stunningly beautiful, twenty something woman. 

So as we began our work, Myra asked me what I've been up to. She knew about my first startup, so I blurted out "I'm building a new startup." She then wanted to know about it, so I told her. I had no pitch memorized, in fact I still was trying to get the idea out of my head, as little pieces of this new startup, keep creeping out of my mind in segments of delight.

I ripped out a few sentences of what I was sure most likely was going to get me the same response as I had received so many times in the past with my first startup. An "oh that sounds nice." As I finished my explanation, she turned and looked at me dead center, with her mouth partly open and said "I want to be a part of Passdown." Of course I heard her, but I was stunned so I said "what?" She kept her serious face on, still looking dead serious at me, and repeated her statement. "I want to be a part of Passdown." 

I looked at her and said "But aren't you going to school to be a nurse?" and she said "Yeah, but this is gonna be big and I want to be a part of it" As with my lawyer, here was the second person who seemed to know exactly what I was saying and she could see the enormous possibilities for Passdown. Unlike Josh, she saw the other side of the two things Passdown does. He saw the one, she saw the other. And they both possessed that glimmer in their demeanor of "they know." Yes, it has the possibility of being BIG, still a ton of work to be done to get it to that point.

As the night went on Myra told me stories and I could see she had some sort of links to the startup world. We had a great talk and I'm really impressed with her. Still I was taken aback and wondered to myself, "Could Passdown really be big?" Why had these two people reacted the way they did? This is something new for me, to see other humans react this way, kind of shocks me with a thrilling glimpse of maybe what could be to come.  

I'm pretty sure at this point, even with not knowing Myra all that well, that she is going to be a BIG part of Passdown. Her voice, the look in her eye when she said "I want to be a part of Passdown" it was like a statement of fact. She had no doubt whatsoever. Here she is starting classes again in two days to follow the path of what we do, if we want a better life than cleaning toilets. She had no concern for that part of her life. Myra's face and statement said it all. "I want to be a part of Passdown" 

Now this is what a founder wants to hear. This is what a founder wants to experience. If the reaction of the potential users is anything like these two people, well then, maybe I finally found my gift for humanity. ~