We're in business!
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Written with a loving hand by kitt some time around 15:19 on 1 September 2005
The DSL guy just left. He spent a little over an hour and a half installing the DSL line in our new offices. The process would have been much quicker if the people assigning IP addresses to our account had actually told him the correct IP addresses that were routed to our lines.
But that's dodging the first point.
Mike and I are officially in business!
Somehow, he convinced Kate that, yes, starting a company with the neighbors was a good thing.
That those neighbors included me was purely coincidence.
Really!
When I called and told my mom what we had done, she was overjoyed. When she told Eric, I think his reaction was something along the lines of, "Well, it's about time."
People have been saying that a lot to me in the last few years. Probably because I've actually started doing what I've said I was going to do who knows how many times or for how long.
As in, from the Shawshank Redemption, "Get busy living, or get busy dying."
But Eric was excited.
And Kris wants to know when we're going to hire him.
Heh.
We had looked at probably 10 office spaces over the last 6 months. Starting a company or not starting a company seemed to be dependent on the workload of the moment (too much work = not enough time to look for offices). We kept our eyes open for a good place that we both liked, realizing that we were doing well without office space specifically.
But we found some!
Our offices are located in downtown Sunnyvale, close to the Sunnyvale Caltrain station.
This was the first office within our price range, with a good location, close to home (I can bike to work! Heck, I can walk to work if I want!), and a decent size with good lighting that wasn't run down or vibrating all day long. One of the places we looked at sat just over the input ducts for the airconditioner for the building: every time it went on, my feet went numb standing in the office. It was a cheap-ass place, though: $1.25 / ft2 .
Next up ... furniture!
After looking in the dotcom graveyard, er, office furniture warehouse, we settled on L desks for the office. I tried to convince Mike of a large round table, but we couldn't find one large enough for four people to sit around with computers and monitors.
So, L desks it was.
Mike has one desk of the L style, so he purchased two more like it, nominally of the same wood color/type. Kris and I helped him carry them up yesterday. Will probably set them up tomorrow.
Whoo! Exciting!
The DSL guy just left. He spent a little over an hour and a half installing the DSL line in our new offices. The process would have been much quicker if the people assigning IP addresses to our account had actually told him the correct IP addresses that were routed to our lines.
But that's dodging the first point.
Mike and I are officially in business!
Somehow, he convinced Kate that, yes, starting a company with the neighbors was a good thing.
That those neighbors included me was purely coincidence.
Really!
When I called and told my mom what we had done, she was overjoyed. When she told Eric, I think his reaction was something along the lines of, "Well, it's about time."
People have been saying that a lot to me in the last few years. Probably because I've actually started doing what I've said I was going to do who knows how many times or for how long.
As in, from the Shawshank Redemption, "Get busy living, or get busy dying."
But Eric was excited.
And Kris wants to know when we're going to hire him.
Heh.
We had looked at probably 10 office spaces over the last 6 months. Starting a company or not starting a company seemed to be dependent on the workload of the moment (too much work = not enough time to look for offices). We kept our eyes open for a good place that we both liked, realizing that we were doing well without office space specifically.
But we found some!
Our offices are located in downtown Sunnyvale, close to the Sunnyvale Caltrain station.
This was the first office within our price range, with a good location, close to home (I can bike to work! Heck, I can walk to work if I want!), and a decent size with good lighting that wasn't run down or vibrating all day long. One of the places we looked at sat just over the input ducts for the airconditioner for the building: every time it went on, my feet went numb standing in the office. It was a cheap-ass place, though: $1.25 / ft