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Act 2: Launch Brad McGinity, Chris Humphres, Scot Catlin and I were all in. We’d committed to a year with no salary. We cobbled together a whopping $25,000 of our own money and tucked it at Square 1. We were four knuckleheads with a powerpoint deck and a dream. Chris and Scot were doing what…

To read the Green Pants Chronicles from the beginning, click here. Act 2: Launch If you remember back a few posts, I’d rationalized in my mind that I wasn’t going to die, destitute and alone, if the Windsor Circle thing didn’t work out, and that the worst that could happen was that I’d go back…

To read the Green Pants Chronicles from the beginning, click here. Act: Backstory People often wonder if entrepreneurial leanings are nature or nurture. Are some folks just born “that way?” I don’t know. I’ve certainly met a lot of folks that had a creative project or side hustle that just wouldn’t stop growing. I’ve also…

To read the Green Pants Chronicles from the beginning, click here. Act 2: Launch From the very beginning, we wanted our professional services partners to be more than just knowledgeable experts who would transact with us. We wanted team members. The Road Trip Test I’ve long believed that you should follow your gut… it’s usually…

To read the Green Pants Chronicles from the beginning, click here. Act 2: Launch Recap of the Inception Phase. No Axe Murderers. Alright, so let’s recap… It’s fall of 2010. Brad and I had an idea that crapped out (BuzzBox), then circled around for the next one (RFMConnex). Adam Covati called me a coward, only…

To read the Green Pants Chronicles from the beginning, click here. Act 1: Inception Values Matter Before we all got on board, it was important to all of us, but perhaps most to Chris, that we express our values so that we knew what kind of people we were going to be together. I didn’t know…

To read the Green Pants Chronicles from the beginning, click here. Act 1: Inception This is a little out of order chronologically, and I think there may be some debate about how this all went down, but I’m going to write how I remember it, and if Brad, Chris, or Scot want to tell their…

To read the Green Pants Chronicles from the beginning, click here. Act 1: Inception All You Do Is Talk. Stop Being a Coward. At some level, I owe the entire entrepreneurial journey to friend and fellow entrepreneur Adam Covati. I’d worked with Adam and Eric Boggs at Bronto, and they’d decided to turn a URL shortener…

To read the Green Pants Chronicles from the beginning, click here. Act 1: Inception Finding the Founding Team I wish that I could claim more than luck on this front, but ultimately, it was luck. Or divine providence. Or something. Here’s the story… Brad and I were playing with the concept of RFMConnex (oof, what a…