How rude!

Had 4 meetings today, from one side of Greater Manchester to the other – you really learn how to cram things in when you’ve only got a couple of days where you can concentrate solely on work!

However, my last meeting didn’t actually happen, as the gentleman I was supposed to be meeting wasn’t in the office. It appears he had forgotten/not put in his diary/insert other reason as appropriate! Not a good feeling, a complete waste of time.

On another note, I've just done a couple of tasks this evening where I’ve had to summarise where we’ve got to in our business so far. First was for the Guardian, who are writing an article about digital entrepreneurs (that would just be fab if we got a mention in their supplement!) where I had to say why I thought we were ‘special’!

And the second was a catch-up of events from Jan to now, for the startups.co.uk website that I am starting to write a summary blog for each week. Oliver from startups, had asked me to write 500-1000 words, but I’ve written nearly 1500! Well you try condensing 10 months into a couple of pages of A4. Hope he doesn’t mind too much, as it’s all really relevant info.

But it does make you appreciate where you’ve been, and how far you’ve actually come. Quite important I think to keep your self-belief topped up. It’s so easy to get downhearted when you have such a long period until you will find out whether you are right or not, in our case, our launch in March. It really helps too to find that other people believe in you. Another great meeting today with Laura from Fido, really feel like we are making progress there now. Lots of tasks for both of us, so my ‘to do’ list is growing again!

Talking of others believing in us, it’s deadline day tomorrow for the MEN Venture Awards, so I guess we’ll find out early next week if we’ve been lucky enough to get to the final. God, how fantastic would that be!!

Kirsty