Being a founder

Being a founder 1 - From one to many

By Ted Pin ⋅ July 19, 2008 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

Almost exactly a year ago today (July 23, 2007 to be exact), I started to lay the foundation for Intermz.com, a web tool that would help anybody learn anything faster, better, deeper, and for longer. (Intermz.com itself is the “useful product” that came from an idea I called Pervading Frameworks I started working on in February of 1997.)

Three months after starting Intermz.com I released a public version. I was the only person working on it and promoting it and, needless to say, it didn’t go very far. For the most part, only my friends and relatives were interested enough to sign up for the newsletter, but no one except for me actually wrote any content for the site; the site’s success relies entirely on the availability of useful content.

Fast forward to June, 2008. I had been working my full time job while doing small things with Intermz every now and then, but it was pretty much dead in the water. A press release garnered quite a bit of new traffic, but none of it stuck. At that point, I started to question Intermz’s potential for success. Should I abandon it or should I go for broke? My fearless wife quickly came to the conclusion that I should go all out and face my dream–move to Silicon Valley  (without her) and try my luck there.

So that was the plan.

Until Startup Weekend came to town.

Imagine 54 hours of nothing but a bunch of dreamers and doers trying to turn a concept into a company. That’s what Startup Weekend was. And at the end of it, seven amazing new members had joined the Intermz vision with a passion I never thought anyone could have about it. We are on a mission now–to release, by October, a version of Intermz.com that will be difficult to ignore.

(Go to Intermz.com and sign up!)

We hope to change the world in one of the most fundamental ways you can–eliminate its fear of the unknown.

Know it all.

Good luck, and go get ‘em.

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