Seriously, we've been in a personal recession since the bubble burst back in 2000. That's right... we're dotcom refugees. Nothing huge or grandiose. It was just our career path for about as long as the Web was around. We had fun . We had faith. We invested our own cash into tech stocks and our own companies as much as we could. Did I say we had faith? It's true. We had fun. We met great, talented people - both young and old, green and seasoned - and worked together to build SOMETHING. That was what we did. Did I say we had fun? Well, we did. Startups are a crazy style of company . Your development group or sales group or even the operations people - possibly all the same person - become your second family. We'd eat together and work insane hours to make deadlines. In the daily passing of time, many stories are shared and you get to know each person as the person they really are - beyond the interview - when you realize you were spot-on in hiring thi...
Brain dumps from my ego of the memory that it created which is neither 100% accurate nor fully contaminated by outside influence.