I did these on Fridays for 6 years straight, but Fridays are not working for me right now, maybe because my week doesn’t end and reset on Fridays anymore! Sorry to be late again.
New revenue this week: 0
2024 ARR: 0
2024 New customers: 0
Old revenue collected this week: 0
Outstanding invoices as of today: Quickbooks says it’s $43,908.11, but I think Marc has checks in hand for all but $10k. Yay! We are basically caught up!
Congrats on getting testing going on in Staging-Fly! This has been long-awaited, so feels like an important infrastructure milestone. Looking forward to next steps w Prod!
Fundraising: Received signed SAFE from NY Ventures (embargoed until the wire hits); received draft loan agreement from Kresge. When all is said and done (+NU Impact), we’ll have raised $1.375M in debt and equity at a cost of ~14.3% of the company and $44.7K in interest (feel free to check my math). This is the money we have to make work for us for the next 18-24 months, and so this first half of the year is critical in teeing up the right balance of investment in resources.
Revenue: Willdan negotiation continues, and we have yet to close Related….but we’re getting close on both! Willdan is down to details; we received Related contract last week and hopefully will be getting an executable agreement this week.
Refocusing on feature releases: I think we’re making progress in this direction. Jason and I gathered up what we think are critical path for National Product. We now also need to start to refocus the development management.
Staffing:
Designers
Customer-focused help for Marc Zuluaga
FinOps help
Revenue follow-ups with Willdan and Related. Marc deposit checks!
Monthly Retro this week feels like a reboot, and our first with François Huet. We still need to decide whether we’re using Almanac, Miro, or something else.
Release: To be honest, I have no idea what is headed for this week’s release. Hoping our new release process will set me straight going forward!
Some of my personal to-dos:
LL97 321 Go! website: Text tweaks and front-end responsiveness help from Henry Baum. Let’s get this thing crossed off the list nice and early.
Get Henry Baum going on implementation of design changes
Get SOW out for design management help from Ellis
And here’s what’s on my radar screen - what am I forgetting?
I’ve been spending a lot of time on the Clifton Strengths workshop for February and want to make sure I’ve been clear on why I think this will be a fun, productive way to spend a couple hours (This is especially for folks who missed last Friday’s brownbag--please do eyeball the recording and the video we watched together):
Different people have different ways, and we, as a company, have decided (as part of going horizontal) to accommodate them
My intent is bringing in Clifton Strengths is to give us shared vocabulary to talk about commonalities and differences, as part of our building toward a discussion of diversity
We don’t have to drink the full container of Cool-Aid about Clifton Strengths–the marketing can get much–the point is to have pro-active conversations
Lots more fun to come on Feb 7!
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| Chuck Lin | |
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| Erika Parkins | |
| François Huet | |
| Henry Baum | |
| Jason Block | |
| Jeremy Parker | |
| Maksym Khrystunov | |
| Marc Zuluaga | |
| Naina Shah | |
| Reuben Firmin | |
| Robin Neri |