Will Bridges

For a long time I looked for a parter to handle the main programming side of this business while I handled the business side of it. But, really, I don’t think it’s necessary any longer as I have learned how to balance both and I have found a couple team members that can take care of most of the intense labor of programming while I manage the business. So, rather, I’m building a team of developers with different skill sets and roles all across the world. Specifically, I’m working to cover each time zone within 6 hours of each other so it’s possible we could have people working 24 hours a day. 

I don’t think it’s impossible to get a partner but I’m skeptical about trusting one person to help me manage an empire that I’m building. Maybe the people I know are too fickle but I’ve put energy and faith in to people I thought would make good partners and I could have been using that energy to build a team of developers. Not only that but a partner wants half and a team member just wants to make a living and have a sustainable role. 

Also, the references I have gained have put a lot more work in my range. Over the past few months I’ve had a strategy of building good references which could be used to build better references. Relationships are key to maintaining a successful business as I believe I have said in the past. So far, my strategy is working pretty well. Another prong of my strategy has been to build content driven sites that will gain audience. That plan has started in it’s primary stages as I’ve been gaining money to invest in these sites for my business. 

The first site I am launching is The Nashville Review which is a site dedicated to doing video restaurant views. I got the site designed, the cards made and I’ve been training my girlfriend on how to edit video. I bought an extra mac for her to edit video on. We also bought a consumer high definition video camera (the Panasonic SD5) which has proven to be a good camera but I probably should have got something else. It’s missing a hotshoe (for an external light source) and an external mic input which is problematic. So, our first few videos may be a little poorer quality than I would like but it will still be good in my opinion. We have already shot video for two restaurants and will shoot video for two more before we launch. I expect our launch for this site to be in May.

I also launched a poetry website WillBridges.name where I will be writing one poem a day for the next year. That’s been a little challenging to keep content flowing but I’ve gained some readers pretty rapidly and expect the base to keep growing over the next year.