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December 19, 2007

Always thinking about the business.

I’ve always seen myself as a very business oriented person. When I was very young, I created my first website. The site grew large, and ended up turning out a profit at times. I never intended the site to gather a profit as I felt it simply wasn’t right so I tried to make sure I didn’t push much items that would garner revenue (For example: I only always had one single banner ad on the site)

Since then, I’ve gone through a lot, and there was some lulls in the world of self business. I joined WeSellit about three years ago and I’ve had a large amount of experience in the business world by joining this venture.

In the past several months, my mind has been on business almost at all times. I have a loving girlfriend, who I spend a lot of time with, who surprisingly is perfectly fine with me working on my own business ideas instead of spending time with her all the time. God, I love that women.

Anyways, I’ve come to the realization that there are so many services and products here in Waterloo, the city who’s motto is “Why not?” that simply do not exist. Why don’t they?

Look at San Fransisco: They have everything. Review websites for everything from dentists to food, entire sites devoted to the subway and bus systems, interactive features for almost all things across the town. As a tech-savvy user, I too want this! But it’s not available.

Waterloo is a pretty prominent town for tech-savvy and smart people (We have two universities and one college here), so why don’t we get these kind of cool things?

In an effort to kind of fit my needs, I’m working on several small to large projects that can fix this. I want to have the cool things San Fran has, and even if not everyone uses my new projects, at least I will have it for personal use.

I drive through Waterloo and I look at signs, stores, billboards all advertising the various things we have in this city. On my drive back today, I saw roughly five various ideas that could be formed and be very useful for the resources and locations we have in Waterloo.

Of course, it’s ideas that I have to keep to myself, or get a really good friend to do it. For now, I’m working on my own and hoping things get a float.

Finally, off topic but I’ve found out you can use Twitter with Google Talk, which is simply awesome. It’s so much easier to track Twitter now. Who wants to be my friend?