The journey of a Bay Area startup: Cloud and You |
Cloud and You was started by three co-founders who have a passion for art. During a business trip to London, they visited several museums and connected through their joy of art. After a few drinks, they felt that one missing piece for artists were collaboration and expert critique. This blog will tell you all the ups-and-downs, the frustration, pitching and funding, and all the hard work into building a company. This is as real as it gets. No frills. |
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Cloud & You · 830 Stewart Drive · #110 · Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Hey Everybody,
Its been a while since we gave an update. Well, alot has happened…again! Lol!
Well it turns out that, you get what you pay for! So our last developer that joined on board, well his life got too busy. GF, new work, love and passion so there was no time really for us. We thus decided to go back to a very old friend of ours. A team actually that also was the starting developing team for AirBnB. James as we call him is a deep and wise man. He is professional and his team works nonstop! Of course as i was saying, you get what you pay for and thus we are paying for it! But the piece of mind is well worth the price.
And this things are coming slowly but surely and we are still massively bootstrapping ourselves which i think is a great thing about us. Our ability to sacrifice and put the money where it matters. At the same time, its also why things are slow for us because we lack funds (heck 2 of the cofounders are unemployed and working full time on the start up) but its also our motivation to not give up and push it until the end.
New platform: PHP and it seems to be working much better. At least we are more familiar with PHP codes.
We also received our check from Cauzoom, the crowd sourcing fund raiser we held. We managed to raised $500!!! Not bad for a small team like us. Alpha is almost done, basic things such as sign in etc… work. But the bread and butter is still in the works.
Hopefully, we can give our readers some good news soon so pray for us!
-Zen Master
Sprints for the next couple of weeks. Week #1 completed! Lean startup? Handle it with agile methodology.
shonuff.
We switched from Java to Ruby on Rails now. Our new team member is Chris Trinh, which is friends with our Rafiki Idea Guy Duy Le lol.
Our launch date for closed beta is on March 1st. Holla atcha boy!
Past month we got a huge hockey puck for our beta sign ups. woot.
This is our office. We are usually here 6 days out of the week to work. We also sip wine, so if you are thirsty, come on by so we can feed you some Hot Cheetos and some drank lol
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