Apple download link:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/syllabeye/id929083083?mt=8

Android Download Link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.syllabeye

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Raising an Entrepreneur, Pt 3 - A Watched Pot...

...Never Boils is the rest of the saying. Meaning (because this may just be some old ppl shit) that when you are really anxious for something and watching it, it at least seems like it will not happen. I kinda feel like that watching multiple email accounts, and the android and apple markets for sy llabeye. But that's not really accurate. I'm just wild impatient.

This has been the guys' first week back at school, so all kinds of stuff is jumping off. The professor they are working with in the college of business has kept his word and rolled it out to his students. (One of the things we're doing early on, with some of the limitations of the initial version, is transposing the syllabi from professors into formats which we know will work well with the app). The prof put it up on blackboard for students to download, and they've been using it.

Moreover, they also have an agreement w/ profs in the college of engineering, and have made some forays into the nursing school. Now they are having their friends report that OTHER professors are putting them on to the tool, and that's wonderful.

They did an interview on Tuesday morning with the Daily Reflector, the daily paper in Greenville, where ECU is. I asked them when it was running and they were like, "weonno". Ok.

Yesterday and today school has been delayed by two hours because of possibility of freezing rain. They get in yesterday and the Vice Chancellor sends them a congratulatory email. They send the email to me and are like, 'what's she congratulating us for?' I do a quick search and find out that the interview was published yesterday morning:

http://www.reflector.com/news/ecu-students-create-app-scheduling-2770273

The reporter really did a nice job with the piece. We finally have our first press coverage, and of course, I'm gonna parlay that with other local outlets and be like, how youon't got a story on them when it was all up in the reflector?

I have to now update the website to put up a media section. I'll include a scanned version of this story since its behind a paywall.

At the same time yesterday, I got a forwarded email from a professor of marketing and advertising from the school who asked the head of the small biz incubator where C & J Visions is renting space, if he knew of any businesses which would be interested in having a class of marketing students use them as a project. I answered that one with the quickness, and listed all the reasons why this would be the perfect project:

- company is by students at same school
- product is one that the mktg students can use and benefit from
- VERY new company with need for this

The prof was very cool and she agreed so we will give them some specifics and they will start next week. This won't get rid of the need for interns, as they are more working on a longer term strategy, and the deliverables won't be until the end of the semester. But we can work it and basically have them working on our Phase 2 marketing program.

I'm still watching this pot. Lots of little bubbles in there, but it ain't really boiling boiling yet. Mad press releases and queries and personal appeals that are still unanswered. However, I can feel it happening. In the meantime, I'm trying to strike a balance and get things going in a more self-sustaining direction. I told them I would take up the slack because last thing I want is for them to be so focused on growing the company and doing the day to day that they don't do well in school. For me, this means my 'second job' will be pretty consuming, especially up front.

But I'm cool with that. For (my work work) I've had go-live periods where I've been in China in a hotel for a month, working literally 100+ hours per week. For no overtime or extra compensation. If I can do 40 at the j-o and an extra 40 to 50 as an acting CEO/CTO/Dir of Mktg for a few weeks to get them off to a good start, that will be more than worth it.

Thanks to all of y'all who have downloaded the app, read my updates, offered advice and encouragement, prayers, well wishes and what have you. It is GREATLY appreciated.

Right now the guys have written an FAQ (that explains better how to use the app -- eventually this will be incorporated into the actual app but we'll put it on the web page in the interim). They are shooting another video which will walk people through the process. And cam is working with my younger son (a freshman there) to make sure ALL of his classes are syllab eyed up.



peace & blessings,

x.

www.twitter.com/poetx

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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad