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Day 1: We're off and running!!! We spent all day setting up the office: Mindy painted the walls, Josh got some futuristic desk chairs from Staples (to help with our posture), and I've been doing the social networking thing (It's the future of business, people!) We haven't picked out a name for our startup yet, but as soon as we do, we're going to print-up some bad-ass T-shirts for all of our investors! It seems like it took us soooo long to get this thing off the ground. We're just super stoked to be making our crazy dreams into a reality! And make some $$$ too!!! Check back here often cus we're going to keep everyone updated on the progress!
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Day 3: Alright people, are you as stoked as we are to get this whole thing rolling?!? Here's a little background on our startup for the people who just stumbled onto this blog. We're three awesome friends who decided, hey, we like to hang together, why not work together?!? But no office, 9 to 5 BS for us. F@#% THAT! <- Sorry Grandma ;) We're going to start our own company where we can, you know, take a day off to go kayaking or whatever. Corporate work KILLS creativity. New Marketing,
dynamic work environments, and solid internet social outreach is going to help us DISTROY those old dinosaurs.
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Day 5: Another awesome day! We've been throwing around name ideas all morning and we have it narrowed down to three: infoLearn, LearnTech, and L.E.A.R.N. where each letter stands for a word (Learn Entertain Arts... we'll figure the rest out later!) We definitely want "learn" in the title. We're all about people educating themselves about what's happening in the world. Knowledge. Anyhow, tweet your favorite name with the tag #StartUpInTheAir... that's right, we're doing it by vote, American Idol style... lates!
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Day 8: We picked the name out B!@#CHES! Right now, you're reading a post from the co-founder of LearnTech! Hell yeah! We already have some wicked logo ideas! Here's the secret to our success: We have the best people for the job! Mindy is a graphic designer, Josh is also a graphic designer, and I have a 2X major in architecture and graphic design. We have this logo shizle nailed down! The way you sell product is with good marketing, and the best marketing is to have a badass Lo-Go. This is too easy. The only thing left to do is decide what our product is going to be. If you have any ideas, send 'm my way - use my FB email, I check that more often. L8R!
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Day 13: Pool party! We have a big yard behind the office so we thought, you know, LET'S GET A FUCKING POOL! If you have Josh's #, you should ring him up for directions. We're going to be here all day. Whenever I hear people complain about their jobs, I just start laughing. Later suckers...
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Day 15: We decided on a product,
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Day 18: We have our first application for the "engineer" position. I hate to have to bring someone else on so early in the game, but I guess if none of us want to learn how to make programs, we have to go this route. They're just nerds though, right? We should be able to pay them with Mountain Dew. In OTHER news, Mindy just had the awesomest idea today. We're going to throw a LearnTech music festival!!! More info to come. Stay tuned...
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Day 20: We finalized the logo. It is So. Bad. Ass. LearnTech: Professional Software Solutions. I really want to put the logo on this blog, but I can't figure out how to post any pictures on here. Do I need to do something with HTML? None of us are computer people... we have lives... But if you know how to post a picture on a blog like this, you should email me. I want to show everyone sooo bad.
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Day 23: We interviewed some people for the "engineer" position. Wow, those guys wanted a lot of money. Like, a LOT of money. They wanted more then we make. Sorry nerds, if you want the big bucks, you have to be a creative. If they don't want in, then their loss. We're going to keep looking, but in the meantime... POOL PARTY!
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Day 27: Lame ass. Apparently there's already a company called LearnTech, and their lawyers are DICKS. They told us that we can't use LearnTech OR LearnTec without the h. We don't want to have to re-do the graphic work, so our only option is to change the name to LarnTech and squish out the e. Oh well, I still think it's a cool name. Now it's a name with a story. When people ask, "What does that mean?", we can be like, well, we got a cease and desist order and whatever. It's kind of a funny story, I guess.
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Day 32: Mindy's been booking bands for the LarnTech festival for like two weeks, and now they're all like, "We want guaranteed money up front". When did music become all about the money, guys? That's so disappointing.
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Day 45: The bank said they won't give us any money. What the fuck? They said that we wasted 20k of our independent investor's money creating one worthless logo. How can they say that? Have then even seen the logo?!? They were just rude. Are they allowed to talk to people like that? They don't know us.
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Day 51: Well, Josh bailed. He was being all pissy about the fact that his aunt was our biggest investor. If this company fails, it will be because SOME people didn't believe in us enough to see it through to the end. It's not about the money. FUCK money.
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Day 60: Mindy's working part time at JoeJava, but she says she still believes in the idea. I just found out that we're going to lose the office AND the pool if we can't pay the rent this month. That's MY pool. I bought it. I don't understand why they just get to keep it if I can't find a place to move it.
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Day 123: If anyone needs any graphic design work done, let me know. I'm still pumped and ready to go...