All they want to do is check the boxes (2020 revelation)

This is hard. Starting Up a company is hard. Making a movie is hard. As Tig Nataro reminds me in her comedy, “don’t rank hard” so I won’t has so many moving parts as you plod through the pre-prod, production and then post stages and they all trip you up before you get near marketing and learning how an audience will react. This startup game is not dissimilar. 

The reason to compare and contrast for my business endeavors is that when the big VENN Diagram of the world shows a clear intersection I try to see it as a sign. When I have a similar lesson emphasized to me by two seemingly disparate industry endeavors teach me the same lesson. Currently in front of me is the proclivity , it is the 

I guess it’s that life is hard too so it’s fair of the audience to try and compartmentalize and pigeon hole all of the sensory input flying at us these days. They just want to put a check mark in the box rather than a question mark. 

Week 6:

Events in NYC rock. This seems obvious 7 weeks into my first accelerator but I didn’t do it myself when the remarkable Pierre Voltaire (2.0) told me that the events were out there this past August. One of the first weeks of the 2020 StartUp accelerator we were all signed up for an event at the Bloomberg Cornell Tech stage. They featured an awesome conversation between Scarlet Fu and the founder of ZOLA, a wedding registry site that is super cool. It was early September so I was super sweaty but nerves played a role I admit. 

This week, all on my own, I signed up for a conversation with Anthony Casalena, Founder and CEO of one of the most critical aspects of my business: SquareSpace.  He was reserved and seemed to have a great grasp on the business side and all of the acronyms you need to know for an artist; I aspire.