The journey of a Bay Area startup: Cloud and You

As you guys might know, we have been working our muthafuckn’ ass off this week. So far got in touch with a lot of cool people that are willing to help on our project. Went to have a coffee break with Tuyen and learned a lot of new things we should take in consideration.

Please if any of you guys are working in building a startup, please please do your research. Do all the things you have to to get more and more information on your competitors and market!! I honestly tell you we did the research on those two, but the main thing we didn’t research on was asking for help and the technology side! We are going backwards. We are actually supposed to work on getting and building a good team months ago, buy now we are trying to do that task in 2 months. So please research on what you need done, gather up your team, then execute. We tried to do the reverse!

Besides that, Khalid is working on our coming soon page so we can have it coded soon. We also went to Yard House to meet up with Monte and Duy. We are probably going to work with Duy and have him do our mock up pages now. He is a UX designer and currently working with people in the field.

Anyway, we are bootstrapping hardcore on this. We shouldn’t splurge on having fun now. It’s getting serious and we should focus on our future. So guys who are starting up save yo cash and use it for your business. You might need it!

Just my kudos.

Ciao

To update you guys on what we did over the last couple of days. We got an advisor that will help us dramatically and besides being an advisor, he is a very down to earth person. We are currently working hardcore on this project even though the COO is on vacation from his day job. So far today we bought a desk for the HQ and, of course, we did not spend a grip on it. We are boot strapping and any penny saved is fine with us. 

We gotten a couple of words from Tuyen that there are VC out there that would like to see more of what we do. This is really good news for us. We appreciate Tuyen for his time and effort to make this happen for us. Also, he provided us with a UI designer who is helping us on our mock page free of charge! YES FREE! That is something that we will never forget.

Executive summary is done and now sending it away. Hope to hear back soon from people. :)

Ciao for now.

Okay guys, just to get you updated on the things we are going to do this week. After dropping an email to one of our financial advisor and not getting no reply, we went hard line. We went through our contacts and pivoted and shifted a little bit. T got a hold of his friend Tuyen from Quora. Tuyen was actually just an online friend of T’s, but after couple of emails we are going to meet him tomorrow.

Just a little background on Tuyen. He is the CEO of Centrro and GPlay, graduated from Cal and already sold a startup and acquired a company. He is actually quite a very helpful person to Cloud and You, giving us tips and pointers and eventually will meet. Actually, we are set up a meeting with him tomorrow in Oakland at Blue Bottle Coffee. 

Tuyen is eager to learn about what we do and putting out his own time to meet up with us. We will truly appreciate his time for this! Maybe he would like to invest, maybe an advisor? Like we said on our last couple posts, we are wide open with anything that tosses out way!

Wish us the best tomorrow. Godspeed.

Oh, I forgot to tell you, we finished our updated executive summary to send it to Band of Angels. Hey, you never know. Maybe we might pitch to them soon.