As you can tell by the title its not great. Got kind of moved into the new office with the help of my dad today which went great. I built these two metal desks a few years ago and now realizing I should have made them come apart. They are heavy. Tomorrow (Saturday) I’ll get the rest of the stuff moved in and my wife and I can sit down and go over everything and write everything up for our meeting with our partners next week.
Its been a year of development, ideas an sleepless nights. The pressure is on now and its not going as great as I would hope. I have been doing the majority of the business side (outside of coding) by what feels like myself for the last year. We have had meetings throughout, my wife is here to listen…but honestly I have done 95% of the work. My business partners like me have another business they are running and a family. They are selling their business but it will be months before that is complete.
Feeling overwhelmed and beat down over the last couple days. Had a meeting with my partners who aren’t sure they will have real time to offer with what they have going on. My wife takes care of our 3 year old full time. That leaves me…doing “everything”. Im thankful we have help now but its super stressful trying to get the business going alone considering I don’t know what the hell Im doing. I didn’t walk away from our meeting today feeling any better. Im not asking for a bunch of time from everyone each week, just need some involvement, some encouragement and a sense of teamwork.
Meeting next Tuesday where we will sit down and start over. From the beginning. Hopefully this team reset will kick off a new direction as partners. My goal is to simply have them up to date on everything that is happening. Make sure they know the plan, how every bit of the software works and how to see all of the financials. Kinda crazy to think we are a year into this (granted a lot of the last year was coding) but we have to start off at the very beginning to make sure everyone is on the same page for everything. Is this normal for a start up? I think if we were younger, didn’t have families, other businesses and me having a full time job…things would be easier. BTW, sorry nursing job for calling in sick. I need a couple of mental break days.
