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It was not easy!
Now when I look back and try to think about the
first days of the Bumblehood project, and fast forward the story till
the present days, there is this one big thing I can shout out loud
while riding on my bike through the woods of Munich neighborhoods on a
way to work - It was not easy!
I do have a couple of already successful start-ups behind me. I have a couple of failures too. And I have read many, many books, where the "definite truth" about how to start up something big, was persued (I really liked Founders at work by Jessica Livingston). But couple of years ago, when a friend of mine and I sat down and talked for the first time about "one idea I had", there was nobody to let me know how long and painful this trip was going to be. Think about it, how many times in our lives we wanted to start something big, something we felt is right to do, something we hope will help many people and generations to come, and we didn't do it because of _________ (fill the gap yourself).
Well, this time I didn't have any excuse, at least not one good enough.
So, what's all this Bumblebuzz about?
Internet of 2005 didn't have "big, old, good" Wikipedia. No YouTube every day - all day. Facebook? Nope. Flickr? A-aa.
But
what it did have was all that noise around us in the Google results.
When we wanted to find some information on one place, systematically
organized in a good, old fashion, library style, we need to... well, we
needed to browse hundreds of web sites and do OUR OWN document (MS word
mostly), just to be able to print it.
And I tell you - we STILL have
that noise. Ever tried to find an easy to print tourist guide online?
How about your company's intranet mess? Why aren't the things better
organized?
At that moment in November 2005 I didn't know that my idea will in the next 3 years put together 8 computer scientists, 2 mathematicians, 55 content writers, a wonderful IT geek, 2 angel investors, one VC investor, 11 week-long brainstormings, many sleepless nights and one goal - go live on 15th of February 2009. We actually set up that goal in December 2007 without even noticing that 15.02.2009 is Sunday. So we went live with one day delay, 16th of February around midnight.
The job is still not done, we have the new deadline set for the end of May this year and I know that the story continues. But already now I know I will be able to tell one thing to my grandchildren: I managed to get in touch with great guys on this project and we all together pushed "that big thing" into the daylight. Don't have to tell you that the investors are pleased too, at least for now :).
And if you ask yourself what's all this Bumblebuzz about, it was all written already here.
Posted by Boro Milivojevic on February 20, 2009 --- Permalink --- Tagged in categories: What's up --- Comments on Forum
