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...
*I'm not, and it's nothing against being bipolar etc etc etc bla bla
as I said earlier, it's the attitude and nothing else; the world owes us all diddly squat... not much out there worth doing is easy...
(of course there are loads of higher fees out there, but I've not come across one like this before). I've been trying not to get carried away, keep my feet on the ground, and keep focused for the year ahead. But it's strange feeling knowing that we've just completed a singular piece of business, in theory, which is just above our typical annual revenue - that annual revenue is normally made up of around 15-20 deals. It has allowed my to sit down with my colleague to put together the beginnings of a proper strategy for his 18/19 year though, which has already started to yield result.
