The Secret Entrepreneur

Every blog post I write seems to begin with an apology for not writing as much as I’d hoped or promised.  As good as my blogging intentions have been, it’s been hard to find the time to tap out a few hundred words here and there, especially when there is so much going on – both in my life and at SendSocial.  Every hour feels like a commodity at the moment.

It’s Sunday night – well, Monday morning now – and I’d planned to go to bed hours ago, but my head is whirring away with ideas and I’m in such a creative mood that it would be foolish to waste that by climbing into bed.  I wish it was possible to plan when these bursts of inspiration would come; then, maybe, I would be able to arrange to see my accountant on a day when I’d got more than only a couple of hours’ sleep.

I started my second semester at university in January convinced that I would be able to see my business management course out, at least until the end of this academic year.  Not two weeks into the term, and I’d decided to take a leave of absence to pursue SendSocial and my other business interests on a full-time basis.  Things were getting to the point where my management course was proving to be little more than a distraction from the excitement of being an entrepreneur, and the prospects of never having to write another essay or sit another exam were too much for me to ignore.

Most of my friends at university don’t know about my life as an entrepreneur (they probably think I’m just some lazy layabout who never manages to make it into lectures), and it has been weird juggling my entrepreneurial exploits with learning about Pareto efficiency and other obscure economic principles, on the odd occasion that I was able to drag myself to my university’s Waterloo lecture theatre.

So I did it.  I took the leap.

And I don’t regret it.

A lot has been happening behind the scenes here over the past few weeks – things that we can’t talk about just yet – that have me more excited and confident than ever about what lies ahead.  We quietly released our API a few weeks ago, and our first partner integration will be complete in the coming weeks.  The prospect of being able to ‘send via SendSocial’ on your favourite ecommerce websites is something that I am looking forward to, and our API allows this to happen.

Part of me wants to spill the beans on everything else that we’re working on, but I’ll most likely wake up to a barrage of angry emails and phone calls if I do.

I’ll blog about them as soon as I can, and that’s a promise this time.  Right now, I’m going to go to bed, open my eyes in the morning, and continue to enjoy the journey.

Somebody wake me up in three-and-a-half hours, please.