Yesterday was a big day!

Such a big day in fact, that I wasn't able to get around to writing about it until today. That's OK, it's not like you were waiting with baited breath, right?

Yesterday 12 June 2008 was such a big day because we hit two important milestones in the development of our business and our product.

First big milestone: we demonstrated a key chunk of the technology underpinning the product to an important external audience. We parsed an important guy's emails and showed him what meaningful data we'd extracted. Live demos always get me quaking with fear beforehand and leave me exhausted afterwards because so often the gremlins come out to play at live demo time.
I'd always prefer to do these things with canned screendumps, but not everyone will settle for that. It also helps our confidence and our reputation enormously if we demo live and everything goes to plan. We did, and it did. Yay!
Big thanks to Elliot for teh devshiz, without which I'd just be some guy with a slide deck.
Second big milestone: somebody said they'd be prepared to invest in our business. It's a long way from verbal offer to term sheets, and a lot can go astray on the journey from here, but what an amazing feeling it is any time somebody tells you they'd consider investing in your startup.
Doesn't matter (for the time being) about how much money or in exhange for what, exactly. Just knowing that the vision we have for a new business can be shared beyond the two of us and it broadly makes sense to someone other than us is just awesome. This is the third time I've been involved in raising money for a new business, and it's every bit as exciting as the first time.

That's all from the news desk here at Trippything. I'll bring you more news as it comes to hand.

Pic by Nrbelex