This was the last week of crunch mode before our big launch in Monaco at the Fund Forum International. It came right down the last minute on Saturday night, but everything came together. It is really amazing the amount of work we got done in the past 6 months.
We closed a major round of funding and secured an important partner, re-branded the entire corporate look and feel, setup the marketing strategy, SEO key words, brochures, press releases, hosting platform, corporate video, website, accounting system, projections and application to become a regulated entity in Luxembourg. All that plus we wrote all of the use cases, designed UI, tested and submitted over 750 bugs, developed and re-skinned the entire product and wrote the documentation.
At the show we will be giving away commemorative Luxembourg 2014 two euro coins in a little plastic case with our logo on the back. We hope it will stick in people's minds that we are a Luxembourg company and their data is safe in Luxembourg.
I really enjoy this stage of building a company because it is so obvious the value we are creating, but it is exhausting both mentally and physically. I feel like I'm so behind on sleep and exercise it is going to take months to recover. It will be awesome to spend more time with the family.
We'll launch in Monaco and talk about the product all week. I'm expecting to learn a ton and hope to meet at least a handful of people who would be willing to be early adopters. When we get home the rest of the year will be spent honing the messaging, product and sales process.
To see what we've created visit www.asset-logic.com. The video will give you a quick two-minute overview.
For Kim and the kids this was a pretty normal week with great 70'ish weather. All of the kids are using their bus passes and going into the city center more.
Jake hit a big milestone by completing a Rubik's cube in 10 seconds. In case you don't know that is pretty dang fast!!!!
This is a big week in Luxembourg as it is their national holiday with big fireworks on Sunday night. The city is all dressed up with flags and colorful umbrellas.
It has been fun watching the World Cup excitement in Europe. They really get into it. There were a lot of happy people when Belgium scored in the last few minutes tonight. The city center was silent when Portugal lost. Lots of depressed Brits and Spaniards as well.
For mutual this week we taught the boys how to do geocaching. It was the first time for many of the boys. It reminded me again how lucky we are to have the scout program back home. Our boys are exposed to a many fun and interesting things.
The family went to a church BBQ on Saturday without me. They seemed to have a great time. We found out that a couple expats with PWC and Amazon are leaving the ward in the next month. We went out to their farewell dinner on Sat. night.
Emilee spoke in church today and did a great job. It was pretty funny because she was asked to speak on transgression. Tough topic but she did awesome. Kim and I commented how this was the first time that she didn't ask for any help. The kids are growing up. Hard to believe they'll be on missions and college in a couple years.
Kim has been busy this week planning our next adventure. We're driving through France, through the Chunnel and visiting London, Oxford, Stonehenge, Stratford on avon, Sherwood Forest, the Harry Potter home and castle and eventually making it up to Scotland. The Cahoons of Luss put on the Highland games. I'm excited to show the family Dumbarton castle where our ancestors fought and won to become barons. Basically they own the whole town. There are tons of Cahoon graves in the church that the Cahoons built. Should be an awesome time spending time with the clan! Maybe we'll buy kilts!
On the way home we hope to go on a church history tour in Preston, see some Beatles stuff in Liverpool and end with the cliffs at Dover. Pretty ambitious for a week, but it wouldn't be a Cahoon vacation without cramming in everything we can!
Kim's parents had their mission farewell today in Sandy. Pretty crazy that they are going to be over here at the same time and that we are in the same temple district. We are looking forward to having them close. I'm sure we will spend more time in Germany once they are here.
The crazier thing is that WE are in the same temple district...
ReplyDelete