Of Mice and Men

Posted: July 16th, 2010 | Author: Julio Hernandez-Miyares | Filed under: New York City Startup |

As I prepare to leave San Francisco to fly back east to New York City, I prepare as usual with a Grande Coffee Drip at Starbucks availing myself of the free AT&T wireless. The trip was a “success” as measured by what we set out to accomplish by coming out to San Francisco in the first place. No, not a junket masquerading as a business trip or a chance to eat at In & Out Burger which though I did, was just a benefit of me being where they are for a change. It was a way for the principals of Jittr to mix it up and truly focus and commit to the norms necessary to have a fighting chance in the exciting but fiercely competitive landscape that is the Web Startup space whichever particular domain within it one may inhabit.

• It was about long evenings bleeding into night and dawn hashing out our core value or meaning that is the reason for forming and committing to Jittr.
• It was about the timelines we see as necessary to hit to be relevant in a time perspective.
• It was about what we excise from our core product idea to be able to hit a date to as I call it , have a debutante coming out in front of the skeptical masses; masses being those in the same or similar business and their press consorts.
• It is about not freaking out with discovery of every competing site or press release of someone in a similar space getting so much Series A or B or Angel funding
• It is about nurturing our combined personal networks and coming clean and often about our ideas, what we are doing and then listening to the feedback and if warranted, factoring in some of the gems we glean.