There are several dates we could use as milestones in the launch of Common Media: the day we agreed, in Rose’s, that we’d give this startup thing a shot. The first few days of business-plan writing. The day our incorporation paperwork asserts was our start date. But the beginning of June was when we actually sat down and started coding on Common Kitchen, the time we really became full-time employees of ourselves.
So it’s been a year now. It doesn’t seem like that long, and it certainly hasn’t conformed at all to the grandiose numbers we put in the (now long-obsolete) business plan. We even have direct deposit now, so we can’t claim to be signing our own paychecks anymore.
There are plenty of startups in the world which don’t make it to their first birthday, though, and like children, the longer a startup stays in business, the longer it’s likely to stay in business. Our first year made it more likely that we’ll finish a second, and we’re actually pretty confident about that second year right now.
And the business plans in our heads still have some interesting things in them, so stay tuned.
Tags: anniversaries, founding, solvency