Introduction - Hi & Hello

Hi All, you can call me Sid and i would like to introduce myself as a stressed co-founder of a 3 man startup. Why am i stressed ? The main reason is because my team consists of 3 guys who are using our day jobs to bootstrap our startup. When you bootstrap i think stress comes with the territory because both time and money is vested.

I am starting this blog because we are an actual startup in the process of launching. My aim is to try to give an inside view of the challenges, triumphs, ups and downs that we go through on a day to day basis. Some of these emotions may be a result of things that happen in our lives outside of the startup and some may be a direct result of the startup itself. At the end of the day this is where i want to highlight to everyone and specially to all the teams of startups out there in their garages who are renting for $10 a week and also bootstrapping that we are all in the same boat, we are all stressed (to some degree) and things are always crumbling around us (to sum degree), thought we also share the same joys of accomplishing our milestones as we head towards our startup holy grail (whatever that may be). So lets comment and share our war stories from the trenches. Im sure regardless of were we end up, looking back will always put a smile on our face in some way.

What I will do to make this blog unique is i will try to be as detailed as possible (so hopefully empathising is easier). Also the fact there is no happy ending yet means i must add a disclaimer, please only try our advice at your own risk. The fact that we are on the journey and havnt as yet succeeded means any advice or tip that i give is under experimentation in which we are also the guinee pigs.

Hopefully one day we can write a blog similar to the likes of 37signals, possibly write essays half as enlightening as Paul Graham or provide advice great advice like so many great entreprenurs in the techworld. However at this point we havnt succeeded by flipping our startup for a figure north of 7 digits or landed massive rounds of VC funding or have oodles of subsribers generating revenue, we havnt even included the adsense adverts to make money to pay for the electricity we use into the wee hours of the morning, so for now we will try to pass on what we learn as the days progress in the best way we can ... with a pinch of salt.

So this is it, the raw deal, there could be something funny happening or there may be really boring days were nothing is happening at all, regardless i will try to tell it as I see and provide advice as best i can. Also, more than anyone else in the world i sure hope that this particular story has a ending is happy ...