Law and Order LA

Just when I find my new Law and Order crush I hear she's moving or in this case failing to exists.  Goodbye L&O LA, I hardly new thee.

Turns out running a candy bar company...

...is harder than I thought.  We've missed two go to production deadlines for the website already and will likely only have about 10% of the candy bars needed to meet demand at the end of the month, yep 10%.  The problems?  Where to start?  Website bugs, vendors, pricing, personnel and transitions.  None of this is unexpected and our contingencies have kicked in as planned but it's frustrating for a person like me who likes to have things done yesterday.  I know, patience grasshopper, empires are not built in a day.  I guess the one plus of experiencing these problems now is that we are not wide (major local market visibility) yet so our mistakes are confined to a small subset of people who have already pledged patience.  I know the broader market will not be so forgiving, nor should they. 

Networking at Kindred Kitchen is like Awesome!!!

 

I went to an awesome class tonight that ended up turning into a mini-networking event for me.  The class was served up as an intro to starting a food business and while some of the content was very basic (starting an LLC), the opportunity to meet so many other people trying to "make it" in the food business was very encouraging.

I'm starting to realize success will depend on meeting the right people at the right times or as my internal loci would say making sure to meet the right people when you need to.

Special thanks to Terese Hill and Austin Aho at Kindred Kitchen.  Check them out here

LBJ...

LeBron James is an awesome basketball player but I think he may be hurting his legacy.  Focus on basketball buddy (incidentally if Miami ever gets old, I'm sure my T-wolves would take you!)

Update: cakedy.com launch

Unfortunately one our team members and an AWESOME developer is taking some time to be with his family. Therefore we will be moving the launch of cakedy.com to the end of the month.

To My Baby...who I will always love

"A million miles away, your signal in the distance..."

If you want it you can get it....

I was told this would never happen.  That Cakedy would never be.  "No one buys candy bars online."  "The product doesn't make any sense."  "My people tell me it's not gonna work."  "They told me you're not worth it!"  Even as a young boy I remember being incredibly strong willed.  I've failed, time and again.  But I think taking the chances that others just think about is why I'm able to succeed.  June 11 - I'm stoked!!!! 

Talking about a goal is not the same as moving towards a goal.  Go and get it.