Playing hooky ain’t gonna get it done, but what fun
Mt. Hood Meadows from the parking lot
We’ve been working a 6 day on / 1 day off workweek (although it mostly turns into 6.5 on / .5 off when we wake up Saturday and keep pushing forward on whatever didn’t get finished Friday night), however yesterday I played a full day of hooky and went snowboarding. Mt. Hood had incredible weather with blue skies, chilly wind and 140 inches of base. Most of the trails were tracked but there was tons of deep powder in the trees. I’m sore today, but it’s a great feeling sore. (Afterwards we went to the Blazers / Mavericks game, but the Blazers lost so we’ll leave that alone.)
With Fremont (the placeholder name for our current project), I’ve been in a constant back and forth in my mind with whether to spend some of our available cash to speed up development or keep fighting through the DIY process we’ve been doing. Development has been coming along relatively smoothly, much to my delight. Without any economic rebound insight, I can’t pull the trigger on hiring a full-time developer, and I don’t think we’ll see enough of an increase in development speed (compared to the tradeoff of burning cash so much faster) going with a freelancer/external team that has to balance other clients.
Of course we want (NEED) to get to launch and a revenue-generating phase, but there’s no sense in arriving at that milestone without the cash to fight the good fight towards the black. Our overhead is so low right now (with The King helping make a decent dent), our desire to raise another round nil (not that it’s exactly easy in this climate) and consumer behavior/belief so shook up right now, that if it takes us a bit longer to get up and running (but costs multiples less), is that really such a bad thing?
