The journey of a Bay Area startup: Cloud and You

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Cloud & You · 830 Stewart Drive · #110 · Sunnyvale, CA 94085
 

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I am finally taking the step to resign from work to focus on our company full time. At this moment, we are getting ready to slice up the images for the Vietnamese to work on. They will translate it to XHTML for Harshad and our new intern to work on. This Saturday Kam and I will have to go to SJSU to interview our new intern which codes in Java.

I have picked up a new methodology called the Kaizen. Kaizen is actually used in Toyota to better their problem solving skills. You might take more or less of what I think and read on it. Thanks to network marketing in the past (I suggest you guys never start…), they had taught me how to utilize the Kaizen methodology.

Kaizen means ‘mini improvements’ or ‘improvements by babysteps’. I truly believe in this because at the pace of us at right now, any improvements is golden. One difference about Kaizen is that it teaches us how to get the product out fast with minimal changes. Until the product is almost out, we can go back and correct on things. Most methodologies will partake a different approach; by completing step one then review, then to step 2. Kaizen does it in a whole so time is not wasted then we will edit upon the completion of the project. Now, it does NOT have to be completed. This method had been for Toyota for 60 years in Japan and currently being used still for their cars.

JM and Monte will be leaving tomorrow night, flying out in the AM the next day. I will work closely next week before Thanksgiving with Khalid to have him finish the design. Taking that design and doing one last revision before taking off to SGN. Kamneel will work closely with Harshad and Kevin to make sure they get the functionalities of the page.

I hear that SGN changed a lot. Will be uploading pictures when I arrive. So far, I have changed the landing pages to LaunchRock and did a little changes here and there to make it simple. 

We are almost finalizing our design and will keep you in touch with whats next!

Feel free to visit us at www.cloudandyou.com and sign up for our beta.

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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.

Go ahead and click it. It gives us traffic anyway. :)

One of our subscriptions to our service is called the “da Vinci” which is priced at $29.99. Matter of fact, Cheesecake Factory had them for $16 bucks or so…