After almost a full week of planning, designing, market research and writing I’m exhausted.  Here’s the catch: there’s still a day left in this week.

Here’s what I’ve done so far this week:

1. Designed Business Cards & sent them to the printer (They look pretty good in my opinion)
2. Written 7 of 9 sections out of my business plan including all the spreadsheets that go along with them.
3. Completed half of the market research needed. (Those numbers will make your head hurt)
4. Designed a Brochure & sent to the printer. (The design gets a B+/A-, but I need something to give people.)
5. Met with my corporate attorney to get his advice.
6. Had an AWESOME meeting with a local pastor of a church that’s in its seventh month.
7. Decided that i love Iced Cafe Mocha’s from Starbucks a little too much.

So here’s my check-list of things for the rest of the week.  Keep in mind there’s ONLY one day left in this week.

1. Finish the second half of my market research
2. Write the remainder of the business plan
3. Find at least 50 retail locations for me to visit next week
4. Make contact with at least 10 pastors so I can attempt to get some meetings
5. Find 5 investors to pitch to within the next two weeks

So as we can all see - too much for me to do and not enough time for me to do it while still trying to spend some time with my wife and son.  That’s it for today’s update…on to some more research.

Well it is official, I have taken the plunge. I have decided to put the job searching to a halt and start my own company.  I’ll be doing various things dealing with technology in one way or another through

• production (audio/video/lighting),
• information technology (servers, networks, support, etc),
• web development/hosting,
• video surveillance and
• some training classes.

I had pretty much already decided this, but someone decided that they wanted to invest in it and gave me the money that I would need to get it off the ground so I took that as God giving me the extra little push that I was needing to dive head first into this.

My main focus will be trying to help church plants, established churches, and non-profits. However, I know I will need to have a few small business customers in order to keep the revenue coming in at first so if you, your friend, your brother, your friend’s brother, or anybody else you know can use any of my services, please feel free to give them my contact information or let me know and I’ll get in touch with them to help them out as much as possible.

There are going to be long days, nights, weekends and countless meetings but in the end I will be doing something I enjoy that God has called me to do.  Hopefully He will bless that and I will be able to provide for the awesome family that God has given me.

By the way, the compay name I’m kind of excited about; it will be called Starvos Technologies.  In Greek, starvos translates into cross so it appeals to my academic side.

That’s it for now….see ya!