SENT THEM TO A VILLA IN CYPRUS
(personal) (product development) (writing)
I sent the development team, and their wives, to a Villa in Cyprus again, for the summer, as incentive to get to feature complete. Lots of strategy in play. They really can’t do much except eat, work, and play there. No distractions from the chaos here. And team bonding is awesome when you live together. They seem pretty happy about it (mostly). One wife isn’t all that thrilled I guess. 🙂 The rest appear to be.
Until they get to feature complete, my work is to basically leave them alone. Once we get to feature complete, then I get to dump all the minor changes on them. And once that’s done, I’ll have a beta product ready to raise a capital round, just in time for the fall.
While I”m doing the raise, we work on performance, since it’s a pretty heavy app. The backend is fine. The UI is heavy. And we need to speed it up a bit.
I suspect the US economy will continue to weaken, but I don’t see a loss of appetite for this kind of product.
Cyprus is an advantageous banking economy. Ukraine is an advantageous tax economy. We are still trying to figure out how to do all this without being in the predatory US of A, or EU.
The flip side is that I am pretty free to write now. But book-writing and post-writing are two different things. And the book work is slow going. We’ll see. I’ll keep at it. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-06 08:02:00 UTC