Well, it’s been a little while since I last updated my progress at a small seed round startup in the social CRM space.   I remember when the opportunity to explore the unknown of a startup presented itself, and the uncertainty being a very difficult thing to overcome.  I made lists and talked to pretty much everyone who I respected in my field, my family and came to the conclusion that you don’t get ahead in life by not taking risks...  So I jumped on it, and as you saw from my last post on this topic, it was immediately exciting and rewarding.

I learned a lot of things both in engineering and business, which I will detail later.  I also learned an awful lot about myself as a person. I guess I was naturally coming to a keyframe in my life and began to ask myself, “Is this what I really want to be doing?”.  And with this opportunity, I really started to see my career as the palette that it was...