This Business and Moment...

I have 2... both in that kinda area... emotuit does engagement analytics for online learning content using facial expression recognition. We integrate with learning management systems. I've gone backwards a bit on this, I scaled too much (or tried) with expensive infra and marketing and deals are slow with unis. Very slow. Cost me personally lots and lots. And lots. We're working with a couple of unis at the moment to create some compelling data stories to start a fundraising round.

Path is blockchain CV, where schools, unis, companies issue certs to your "Path" which gives you an irrefutable verified CV. Companies can run background checks on your experience for a fee. That fee is presented in USD/GBP and exchanged for PathCoin in the background. That is then split between the Path owner, Us, and the companies/ unis who have issued data to that users Path. Meaning it creates an incentive for companies and educational institutions to issue certificates, generating a passive income.
We're working on APIs so that these places can automatically issue these, without having to add an extra process to their normal.

Snowballed a lot lately, I was talking to LinkedIn yesterday, I'm talking to Facebook, Apple and Glassdoor as well at the moment. Any one of those would be a phenomenal partner.

I've been invited to BETT a few times. I couldn't make this one as I've been so busy and having done conference marketing the cost vs. pay back is a varied. My network is more cost effective at the moment ha but that's after a few years of hammering these events @skaif
 
mrbell1984 said:
Agreed. :)
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I'd agree. Most of the time now, you will have 3082323 CVs, all of which have, on paper, what is required for the role. It's not really that that ensures from a hiring point of view that they will fit with the rest of the team though. Which I think is why it's important to make sure you understand what sort of person they are outside of that as well.
 
Ha @Phate It's a space I was interested in, and it fitted an idea that I'd previous had around credentials. This is really opening up though and I have a fantastic team of advisors, a great internal team and our roadmap is so strong.

We're just lining up for a private finance round with one advisor of $1m to take us to ICO, then we are targeting $10.5m and then it's all go. Everything is planned, we are already working with unis, I'm in talks with partnership companies (pearson VUE, degreed, checkr) and now going for someone like Udacity and a big company like FB/Google/Apple (I have friends doing some digging).

It's funny, that internal job I went for at work and had 2323 interviews for, well today they really poorly informed me I didn't get the position. I was mainly annoyed about the way they did it (just cancelled a meeting on me, no description etc. I asked if it was being rearranged and got an email just saying, no, sorry we're going with someone else) but as outlined in here, I wasn't sure about the role having spent more time hearing about it and I would have had a lot to do. Right now I'm so busy on my ventures, I would have hated it.

Bonus also; finished v1.1 of the white paper today. Only took me from 7:30am to about 20 mins ago. My eyes are bleeding.
 
Nights got more crazy with some people I've just been speaking to. I suppose that's what happens at nearly 3am.


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Nice!

I just had a call from my manager in the US informing me they won't be renewing my contract at the end of March. Now, half of me is like ****. The other is like meh, I hated it anyway. I am talking about raising money in the next 2 weeks with Path anyway... I reckon I can get it to work! Just got to press the foot to the floor and keep the pressure on!
 
A lot less now than it used to be. You'll typically see 18 months. I don't think moving soon is an issue, as long as a. you can explain why and it's for good reason, not "I didn't like it, I didn't get on with my boss etc." They are red flags normally and b. you don't do it all the time. Again, if you have the old short spell at a company it's fine, if you can answer a. well. If you have loads of 3-6-9 month periods in jobs, I'd think twice about hiring them as they wouldn't last.
 
Quartz said:
I've been reading your posts about using blockchain with CVs and I think you've got a good idea but I think you're missing two massive markets: criminal evidence and video and audio media.

With criminal evidence could you not use your technology to verify the chain of evidence after initial acquisition?

And could not your technology be used to fight deepfaked media?
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Probably could well be a great use case for it. We've also been exploring the open science space, in how companies can open up scientific discovery using staking and blockchain, but there are so many things you could do!

We're going nicely on it at the moment actually, just need to keep up the momentum. I found out today I didn't get the internal job in my team, that I've been doing for the last 6.5yrs because I'm not senior enough lol it's like the lowest level job, but same level as I am now... I didn't even really want it but I know lining up raising Path funds by end of March is going to be tight as. Now my options are limited and might well sign on the French unemployment... haha good times! You have to go through some **** to find gold and all that.
 
Haha

I had an interview this morning for a PM role, not really sure how it went really but I'll find out later in the week if I get called back. I have a doubt that they'll think I don't carry enough clout (age really) to run the team across all the different sub groups, but hey! I'll see later. I could do with a role haha no way we'll be ready to raise any cash before that. This stuff always takes twice as long.
 
ChrisD. said:
Looks like I'm a jobless bum next week, my contract hasn't been extended because although they need me, the finance directory hates spending money. Onto the job boards I go! I'll probably go and sit a few exams as well.
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Same boat. I've applied for a few things around here, but there really isn't that much about contract wise at the moment.
 
Met my agency today about other contract positions about in Basel, he's going to speak to his clients. I'm not that optimistic at the moment, but will see how it plays out. Lit a fire up my ass to push on with other things though, so there is that. As long as we can afford to keep the bad men away, that's all that matters for now :P
 
Still no job. I am contemplating selling pulled pork sandwiches to businesses at lunch haha at first I was only kidding, then I was like actually, that sounds like a great idea. Real jobs for people doing ****** things just drive me up the wall.

We're just about to finally start seeking some VC capital with Path now, so I'm kinda like meh, if I can scrape by making pork until I have some cash in, that would be fine. Just need to ensure we raise now!
 
We've got our white paper pretty much at an acceptable point at the moment, I'm finishing up our pitch deck and currently putting last touches on our utility token model projections based on use etc. we have someone going to token fest this week and another going to an event in Seattle. I have a wicked team on this, which is such a nice feeling. I can literally do the things I am good at and delegate other things to others.

Our smart contract is sorted, as much as it can be at the moment, we have essentially a prototype protocol exchange of data for tokens etc. and we've mocked up some UI so that we can at least show something, too.


Got back from the UK late Sunday and my wife has now decided she wants to move back and would like to be outside Manchester in the country near my brother and his wife. Shame it's bloody next to Knutsford and a house like ours is about 800k at the low end, and she'd earn about 30% of what she earns here after tax. I've said if we get our funding and I'm not completely out of a job with no money like I am now, I'll go anywhere. I don't have ties here. Just need to be able to afford a house :P
 
I feel a bit bipolar at the moment*. I'm in this up and down, rollercoaster ride of life. I think I should be more stressed than I am half the time, but then I have pangs of worry every now and then. Having spent my families life savings on emotuit, and being 3 days from my last day of paid work and nothing lined up, you'd think I would be dying from stress. Don't get me wrong, I have my moments. I just ******* hate this place though, and I will miss the wage, I can't wait to see the back of it now. It's almost liberating, as long as we can keep above water that is, anyway.

Money raising on Path is slow, as it always is with anything, but we're in a good position for it and I'm working on an utterly game changer of a partnership as well, which is all good. I might just have to live off cupboard stock and ramen noodles for a while first.

The money pit emotuit sucks my money no more, but mainly as I have none haha but things are starting to shift slightly. I'm working on a partnership deal with a university where we get to use their students, courses etc. as well as their data (they're looking at text analysis from chatbots to analyse student behaviour) and layer it over our emotional response data. We would also get access to their dev/data science resources. The end result is, what I hope for, a more feature rich emotuit, with a study published showing improved learning outcomes based on our data. Being education, just to get to this point is slow as ****. Painfully.
On top of that I am trying to move our cloud provider as we ran out of Azure credit for free, so it's like 2k a month, I've powered it all off and deleted a load of stuff but jumping ship to try and wangle an AWS deal, so speaking to them on Tues.
Some potentially good news from it this side; I met with big Pharma company Roche yesterday who want to use emotuit to analyse some onboarding for a very specific niche group as it's critical to have people up to speed as soon as possible. They actually have a number of use cases, but this was the most burning. It wouldn't be an off the shelf plugin, but a custom solution, which they were happy with. I am really going to try and drive this to produce some cash from it. Could be a great relationship in the corporate sector. They have much shorter sales cycles and way more cash lol


Few more days left and I can be fully flying solo. You know what they say...

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*I'm not, and it's nothing against being bipolar etc etc etc bla bla
 
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