Reflection on one year
So you may not know this but as of Dec 9th (this Friday), my company (my other baby in many ways) DataCom Technologies LLC is a year old.
A history in brief is to follow.
The Idea:
Wintertime in late 2013 and early 2014 we spent time having conversations regarding starting a company, what that company would look like and even investigating some different avenues.
The Name:
March 2014 the name DataCom Technologies was hatched. We wanted people to think of this company whenever it was born as a company that specialized in Data and Communications, thus DataCom.
The Plan:
The plan came in March of 2014 as well, we originally thought about a alarm and data connection company and wrote a rather extensive business plan. This planned was shelved as I changed jobs twice in the following 4 months and landed in a job that was both fantastic and agonizing.
The Desert:
This was my time at the very last place I plan to be an employee. Though it was a wonderful job I found myself thirsty for my own plan and it came up rather often. It was a point of contention between me and the company as well as in my own mind.
Now is the time:
After spending the early part of 2015 redoing the business plan it looked like what DataCom is now. A computer repair company. However the idea of Phones and Tablets were creeping in my mind. And by August the I was extensively researching the viability of Phone and Tablet repair.
But the real item that moved me was a lunch after church where I was asked in late October to fix a computer. I had not told anyone I was moving towards DataCom. I had been quietly purchasing equipment for months and doing a lot of market research. But with this new unsolicited request I knew this was the time.
Official:
When I placed my application in the mail for the LLC for the state of Ohio I knew it was a real thing. I had finally taken the plunge to start this company.
Being a baby:
The first few months I was so unsure of what anything was and in many ways I still have days like that today. It must be how a baby feels, the company was trying to figure out this world and what it was supposed to do here.
Now it's real:
June 10th 2016, was the last day of my "job" and it was certainly the scariest and exciting moments when I walked out the door at the end of that day. I was excited to jump full into DataCom and scared in some ways of what the future held.
1 Year:
I sit here relieved at 1 year, wow what a journey thank you for coming with me. Customers, vendors, friends, family, thanks you for supporting me for this past year I look forward to the next.
-Nate
A history in brief is to follow.
The Idea:
Wintertime in late 2013 and early 2014 we spent time having conversations regarding starting a company, what that company would look like and even investigating some different avenues.
The Name:
March 2014 the name DataCom Technologies was hatched. We wanted people to think of this company whenever it was born as a company that specialized in Data and Communications, thus DataCom.
The Plan:
The plan came in March of 2014 as well, we originally thought about a alarm and data connection company and wrote a rather extensive business plan. This planned was shelved as I changed jobs twice in the following 4 months and landed in a job that was both fantastic and agonizing.
The Desert:
This was my time at the very last place I plan to be an employee. Though it was a wonderful job I found myself thirsty for my own plan and it came up rather often. It was a point of contention between me and the company as well as in my own mind.
Now is the time:
After spending the early part of 2015 redoing the business plan it looked like what DataCom is now. A computer repair company. However the idea of Phones and Tablets were creeping in my mind. And by August the I was extensively researching the viability of Phone and Tablet repair.
But the real item that moved me was a lunch after church where I was asked in late October to fix a computer. I had not told anyone I was moving towards DataCom. I had been quietly purchasing equipment for months and doing a lot of market research. But with this new unsolicited request I knew this was the time.
Official:
When I placed my application in the mail for the LLC for the state of Ohio I knew it was a real thing. I had finally taken the plunge to start this company.
Being a baby:
The first few months I was so unsure of what anything was and in many ways I still have days like that today. It must be how a baby feels, the company was trying to figure out this world and what it was supposed to do here.
Now it's real:
June 10th 2016, was the last day of my "job" and it was certainly the scariest and exciting moments when I walked out the door at the end of that day. I was excited to jump full into DataCom and scared in some ways of what the future held.
1 Year:
I sit here relieved at 1 year, wow what a journey thank you for coming with me. Customers, vendors, friends, family, thanks you for supporting me for this past year I look forward to the next.
-Nate
Great story Nate. Congrats! I'm happy for you!
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