Life of Chisung Lee

Friday, March 11, 2011

Momentum, Gold rush = Mobile APP

Ilan says I am building a momentum but we will see.

A lot of things happened since Monday.

Sack of Seattle, meeting Rick, crazy Abby things, Redmond meetings, Northwest Entrepreneur Network. Let's tap into it one at a time.

Sunday- Abby called me at 930pm to tell me the truth about what happened between Abby and Randy. Mikayla lied to me about it and told Abby to tell the truth to me. I would have been better off not hearing the truth, but I guess it only makes me stronger or damage my psychologically. At least scheduled a breakfast with Abby for Monday Morning. I confessed my love for her passionately and I thought I had reached her or budged her to love me again. She had a lot of resentment it was almost like she was trying to be resentful just so that she doesn't miss me. I can see in her eyes that she loves me very much. I could see the tears when she was walking away from me after we said good bye. She wants me to change and get better.

Tuesday morning!! Sack of SEATTLE. So many inspired Entrepreneurs and business professionals. Many of them were ex-microsoft. One guy already had his product built and showing on his ipad. It was about predicting people's future and earn points. Vision was that eventually, some people will have a lot of points and people will follow. RIght now he is designing it for fun such as celebrity and sports players. Eventually, money people will use and that's where he will make bank. If Warren Buffet joined that site, it will get so much recognition people trying to follow him. :)

I was only able to talk to few people. Peter works at Microsoft I believe. But he has his own business on the side called zumobi and he is an iphone developer. He seemed like a realist and for some reason I did not have a courage to ask him to be my co founder. But I sent him an email today asking him for guidance so we will see.

Rick PLANK!! my Favorite. We had very interesting conversation and he liked me quite a lot. He is an engineer and a lawyer. He developed this product called E-Swing. It is for golf where you swing the ball and machined measures all the data so that golfer can become a better golfer and win. He was very fond of his vp of business development guy who is korean and had big vision for korean market through him. He liked me enough to invite me to go to Northwest Entrepreneur Network which was today. He even paid for my coffee and registration fee. I really hope that I can maintain good friendship with him. He has put in about $375,000 into his business so far and looking for another half million. Looks like he is very close to launch. I'm excited for him.

My right hand is still not healed from punching a wall. So I have been running every morning instead of lifting. I want to lift and get big.

Michael a creative designer who seemed bit weird for my taste of weird. He told me that he knew a guy who developed an app for autotrader. So I emailed him today to see if I can get introduced.

David met a inventor and Angie who is in wine industry.
Overall lesson we got Tuesday was that we need to find an attorney who would work for equity of the company. I need to make the company a Limited Liability so therefore I can start making contracts then I can really formalize founder relationships right once I find a developer.
Competitor, target market, terms of use, projected volume and profit and timeline

Wednesday, in Redmond Entrepreneur coffee, I met with two ex-microsoft, Jon who I met at Sack of Seattle. Jon told me about surfincubator.com for my developer search. One of the ex-microsoft lady was a project manager who went to school to get certificate to understand codes but not necessarily know how to write them. She knew a lot about how to find a job such as Matt-Young-Quest, a career coach, Readypulse.com, Prolango, Pay scale and she was very passionate about it.
Most interesting person did not show till the last minute. His name was Srinivas Penumaka, a CEO and co-founder of Social Yantra. It is a analytics for Facebook and twitter. I visited his site. It wasn't working for my Facebook page and did not see one for twitter. It is a beta version and apparently he is going to the showcase soon to attract himself from investors.

I posted my cover letter and resume to seattle tech stars. It drew few attention. Three Startups contacted me. I am meeting with one today. Deep thought Inc. I also found out that it is affiliated with MIT enterprise demo event winner Laser motive and one of the participant was Social Yantra. It is so crazy that I can see the entrepreneur ecosystem slowly now. I'm learning tons. Yet, I still don't feel whole without Abby.

So that was Wednesday. At this point, I was still ok because I had hopes for Abby and I especially because she told me yes to us going ski together. I was excited and waiting to call her Today. But all hell broke lose on Wednesday. I saw Ashina was friend with Randy. Found out he enjoys snow sport. Worried about Abby going to the mountain with him. Whatever that means. I was home alone. Super low emotionally. called her. begged. she was very upset. told me that rest of her day is ruined. I made the situation really bad. Friends told me so too. I should have kept my composure and stay cool then at least I could have called her today to see whatsup. Now I really have to give a silent time. Big space in between us and just hope that she will miss me one day.

Today I got up at 5am. Went for a run. Met with Rick at 7am. We went to Nwen.org together. I networked his guy name Cliff. He was a web developer but did not have card nor tell me details on what he is working on. He just asked me a lot of question without telling me anything about him. It made me nervous. I gave him my card. Hopefully, he will reach out to me and want to work together.

I am meeting with Matt Fields from Deep Thought Inc. Their page says



We incubate, collaborate, and co-fund technology ventures primarily in mobile and web


But the web site not well organized and mediocre. It looked like a messy blog. So we will see. He thinks i'm looking for a job but I want to talk to him about My mobile app. meeting him today at 330 in bellevue.

I got a call from Appme, talk to their CEO, Vijai Anma. He wants to meet with me on Monday. I emailed him the address that he told me but it did not go through. So i'm not quite sure if he is blowing me off or did not have courage to say he is not interested in me. Either way it would be cool to work with him because he had the same vision as I do about mobile app industry. 

GOLD RUSH = Mobile APP!!!

Oh I forgot to mention that I met with Giovanna at aerotek. She is recruits for Amazon so we will see what will happen down the road. 

En Masse had called me for QA position. They are looking for Korean Bi-lingual person. But I 'm not quite sure i'm up for it. Pay is too low for what i'm used to.

Thought about just going to sales and make lots of money, save up and try again on my entrepreneurship.

I want more things to happen. Ilan says i'm building a momentum. 
I accepted the loss for Abby. No more. It hurts. I'm juss dealing and coping with it now. I don't know what's going to happen now. I want to meet a new girl so that I can stop thinking about her. That's exactly what she is doing. Meeting boys. i'm not sure if i'm ready to be promiscous. Been in such a serious relationship, not looking at any girls for such a long time. Now I have to train myself to be single and looking agian? Afterall, I guess I am a commitment guy. Not sure why Katy was saying i don't want to commit or that I was hurt in high school so I don't trust. I think it is misconception that ABby and Katy have developed. I trusted Abby always. it was more about my own jealousy or wanting to protect myself getting hurt by Abby cheating on me or leaving me. My vulnerability and insecurity. Past three weeks, I had received all of that mounts and mounts of them. I didn't find to find about them at all. I could have ignored them. But Instead I brought them all to myself and tortured myself. Alex was saying that I'm psyching myself out. True. I felt so vulnerable and scared that it would damage me psychologically. All the anxiety and difficulty with self control. Maybe Abby saw that in me and wanted to get away. She wants steadiness. that's what she says.

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