Not much to write about in the business start up diary this week, I’m afraid. With Good Friday shortening the week to begin with, and some family health matters cropping up shortening the week further still, there really was not much entrepreneurial activity. It was a week of lemons, so I had some lemonade. I decided to float rather than become all aggravated. Since some of the health issues were anxiety-laden enough, I did not need to add to the emotions and commotion with my own frustrations. To paraphrase the final line of Gone With The Wind, “Next week is another week”.
There was some progress on a couple of fronts.
The committee I am involved with galvanized at the critical hour again, and we came up with enough sponsor bucks and key speakers just in time to finalize our invitation. There are times when you know you are playing on a championship team. You know because critical junctures cause the team to come together and deliver rather than fall apart, because pressure leads individuals to take responsibility rather than melt away under the jungle cover of excuses, and because each challenge is perceived as an opportunity to shine rather than to a chance to personally glow with “I told you so” downers.
There was also some progress with the venture that I and my colleague are working on. But as with all such situations, you feel good when you have better defined the next layer of the onion only to become a little disheartened by the additional implications the newly found clarity brings. It’s too bad that everything goes in those cycles, but it does. Although, just once it would be nice if everything worked out so that you didn’t have to go through the valleys.
The short term cash flow pressures have not gone away, and that continues to be my focus now. There are a few leads in this area and that will be what I will be concentrating on. Now that I set that concrete target for April I have to figure out how to reach it. More on that in next week's Business Start Up Diary.
Peter Hadas has over 10 years consulting experience working for major national clients in the Biotech, Distribution, Retail, Financial Services, Professional Services, Energy & Utilities and Public Sector industries. Contact Peter Hadas Consulting at 905-470-7703.
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