Further Funding

In a not at all recent email, Richard MacManus wrote: “how’s your business going? I keep waiting for you to write something about it on your blog (hint hint)”

Good point. Well made. I should blog more often about what’s happening with the business, and my first product. So, as promised over a week ago (good to see my predictions are as reliable as ever…) here’s an update.

It doesn’t feel like much has happened, but I think that’s because to me, it only feels like things happen when progress is made towards finishing PeerBackup. And there wasn’t much of that over the last couple of months of 2004. Instead, there was a very useful injection of cash into the business from my fifteen weeks of contract work. The initial twelve week contract which took me through to Christmas was extended by a few weeks to the end of January.

That’s eased the cashflow considerably, and I now expect to get PeerBackup finished and launched without needing any further injections of cash. One fewer thing to worry about, although there’ll no doubt be a host of other things to worry about in its place :-)

It’s taken a little bit of time to get back into the swing of working from home again; the first two weeks of February I had long weekends booked which meant the weeks were short and also meant I had additional things to sort out before the weekends. Still, progress is being made, pretty much according to plan and the end is in sight.

The plan for the next month or two remains head-down coding, but as time progresses I’ll have to work out how I’m going to come up with a plan to market and sell it…