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From the Archives: Starting from Scratch: the best part of ANY project

So part of bringing this blog back will be featuring some of my writing from the past as well. This was written back in July 2007 when working on a now-failed startup. I had a lot of fun working on the very beginning steps, though, and this post expresses some of that feeling. Enjoy!

Today, I wanted to talk about the beginning of a venture, and what makes it so fun. Although I’m a young guy, I’ve been involved in a few ventures, both on my own and with a partner/partners. They’ve all existed for different reasons, whether it’s been simply as a way to pay the bills, or because I had an idea that I just needed to move on… or because I needed to get a certain mark in a high school class. Regardless of the reason behind the existence of the venture, they all shared one thing in common:

The start was really frigging fun.

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