The early stages of entrepreneurship come with constant extremes of highs and lows. The trick is to prevent the lows from diminishing your will to keep going, and to remember that there’s something good waiting around the corner.
Yesterday as the day went on, I could feel the level of excitement growing and by the time I went to bed I had so much adrenaline flowing that it took me longer than usual to fall asleep. That’s a good sign.
I caught up with my good friend Moin Islam yesterday, Co-Founder & CEO of Shipday. Moin is just one of those really good guys. The type that just invites you out to dinner with his company and prospects even though you or your company do not represent any potential financial gain for him. We’ve met at several conferences and have since become friends. Yesterday I was explaining the vision of what we’d like to build here at High Margin and he very astutely said, “You can describe that in 3 words.” Suddenly I had a crystalized elevator pitch. More importantly he helped me realized that what we had in mind is even bigger than we realized. By the end of the call he was so excited about the product vision that I hung up thinking, “wow I think we’re really on to something here.”
Time to make some edits to our website, LinkedIn page and investor pitch deck. This is just another tiny step in the evolution of a startup from the tiny seed of an idea to the amalgamation of conversations and ideas that come from the team, our advisors, potential customers and of course, industry colleagues like Moin. At the end of the conversation I said, “I can’t tell you how valuable this conversation has been. Thank you.”
As Jimmy and Schatzy always say, “It takes a village.”