Someone said to me yesterday, “I bet it’s exciting. And nerve-racking.”
She had it exactly right. Sketch beta is about to be built after almost a year of idea development and market validation, and I feel almost constantly like I’ve got butterflies. I’m not worried about the product itself, because we’ve worked so hard to make sure we’re solving a real, pressing problem – and our beta proposal has been so thoroughly endorsed by the market.
It’s more all the things I have to do and pull together for the first time – a whole project consisting of technical build, design, integration and deployment, and of media content and relations, marketing, conferences, sales and support. As project leader and front-man, every day is a challenge. Every day I wonder if I can do it, and every day I have to back myself to try.
But it’s great. Truly great. This is what I chose to find out when I decided that I didn’t want to retire from law, even if from a very distinguished career, and wonder “what if?”
It’s the dream.