UPDATES:
- Back in a contract. Good thing, as I was expecting some money to come in, and it still hasn't, so could do with some cash
that said, it's day two and I've got my badge but no laptop yet. Hopefully tomorrow but only if I have a Swiss keyboard layout... I'll take it for now and then swap it out when they get me a US one. I've been crazy busy on my own businesses so it's been nice to ease back in. Hopefully it's not utter chaos when I do properly start though. The role is an Application Service Manager for some Logistics tool.
- Path Foundation: Met with an HR fund in London yesterday, think they're more traditional VC than Blockchain token VC fund, but they want to see me in June. Networking for business development if nothing else. Was interviewed for CryptoStandard a HK based company writing reports on Blockchain companies, this one is HR related, so that should get some good PR.
We're getting the prototype app side finished, we have finished the smart contract side of things and I'm lining an attorney up to talk to to iron out some concerns for our Badgr partnership. That will be a great step. On other partnerships; in the digital credentials space there were 3 top players. 1. Credly, 2. Badgr, 3. Acclaim. Credly just acquired Acclaim and as we've previously spoken and were lining something up with the Acclaim guys, who is now the CXO at Credly, we're revisiting talks to partner with the newly huge company. This would be massive.
On top of that I've been introduced to the Uni of Basel who are putting degree certs on the blockchain but in no actual useful way, so we're going to get them to use Path instead. Will then aim for some other unis in the area, and I just spoke to the CEO of a recruitment company (that I go through for my contract and have known for 7yrs) who want to use Path firstly to verify candidates but he also said he'd put me in touch with all HR depts. of big companies in Basel, too.
Lastly I had another couple of calls today about partnerships; one being a company called TiiQu, we are going to have an agreement where we can verify each others certs, so doesn't matter who's client pushed it to the chain, we'll be able to verify each others and a token swap will occur. They are not huge but still good.
The other is a small company called badge list, they have a solid customer base, but pretty small fry compared to the 15k customers (not users, customers) that Badgr have.
We are also hiring a social / comms/ marketing manager for 1% of tokens if you know anyone...
- Emotuit: Had a ballache with azure and our machines on there, which took me an age to spin up our website back on a new host. Managed to do that but still need to get our app server and LMS server transferred to a new host. Azure were charging me stupid amounts.
We had some good news with Arizona state uni, they're using canvas LMS now and not blackboard, so the hurdle we hit before should be a non issue and we've completed all contracts so will be able to run through their test/staging environments and then should have them onboarded. I need to sort the above machines out first mind. Ugh.
I also met with Uni of Phoenix who I've met before and after a good chat he said he'd put me on to their analytics people. Will see if that happens...
Still waiting to hear back from Roche about the potential development project we had proposed to them around a learning analytics solution, I followed up today.
While I was off work I sent an email to the head of learning innovation here at Novartis (the one that put me forward for the job I'm now glad I didn't get) and told him I was going to make him buy my stuff now I didn't work there. We met and chatted emotuit and he said one thing he knew that they would be interested in, would be instant feedback on webinars (one tool they use is adobe connect) that provides the host with a simple needle list gauge to show engaged vs. not, with traffic light indicators on participants and a simple report emailed to the host afterwards with engagement vs. time averages. We don't have the internal resource for this, so I've found someone who could do it for $1200, which I think is very reasonable. I'm kicking that off and have setup a time in 6 weeks to demo it to Novartis. Would be a great resell if I could do that and license it at $2.50 a user license per year to them.
That lot is keeping me pretty busy for the time on emotuit and are my main priorities at the mo.
VolAir - I figured I had too much time on my hands and while in the pub with some mates, I joked that planning things for all of the above was such a bind. We should just do something ludicrous. I came up with VolAir - private jet chartering on the blockchain. Now, it started as just that, but as the journey has gone on, it's kind of snowballed. Like a kayak for private jet chartering, but then more luxury lifestyle and private jets (full service), but then moved into more of a tiered system, but then with a sales analytics element to help our partners sell more to their customers (I like analytics so it seemed fitting).
I've got an ex jet smarter person from Dubai interested in heading up the middle east side, I'm talking to the Chief Architect for NetJets about an advisor role and I've been already talking to a lot of 3rd parties about partnerships to list on our app.
Technology wise the white paper will be done this week, but we've already launched our testnet and wallets and will be going our initial app next to pull it all together. Also hiring some people on this side, both marketing/ community management and blockchain side, too.
AND BREATHE.
That's me up to date. I think...
