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The morning opened with Carl having an epiphany which would help make the new business venture even more competitive and appealing to the customers, which was, truly, a brilliant idea. Which would work. The middle of the day had the partner calling Carl asking him who Carl wanted to list as CEO of the new company, and they settled on me, giving me 1% more so it would be a woman-owned business. (My response? What crack were they smoking?) This afternoon brought Carl to a nervous stop because one person (who's sort of hard to describe here without using technical terms -- suffice it to say, he's one of the big national agencies that used to do this stuff and was supposed to be getting out of it)... well, he informed Carl that he had realized that they could be making the profit that this start-up in Florida is making, and so they are going to do it and make sure that no one else can supply their "clients" with another option. Except, I don't think they can legally tie their clients' hands like that without a contract, and when the clients find out the other thing Carl figured out we could provide (the epiphany I mentioned above), they're going to want that option. So the lawyers are looking at it all to determine if this guy was just trying to scare us off or whether he really could do what he said. (He's not he only big agency / business though -- there are several others, and they seem not to be so proprietary towards this thing. In fact, they seem to be welcoming the outside businesses like the guy in Florida.)

So Carl felt elated this morning, bummed beyond belief this evening. I'm in the middle. There's plenty we can do with this company; they have no way whatsoever to tie down all of the independents not associated with those big supplier agencies, which means there is a tremendous amount of business up for grabs. And we can grab it.

There were dozens of phone calls flying around here today. Still a lot of contacts to be made with people who have information for us -- info which will help us determine how viable this thing is. Because we are not going to let the partner spend that kind of money on any sort of false start (and everything's reversible so far.)

I really really really really really want this to work. I cannot tell you how much I want this to work. I'm scared that will jinx it, though. I'm so tired of construction, of being the go-to person for problem-solving, of dealing with dozens of vendors, etc., which I wouldn't have to do with this new business. I want to have that writing time.

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Tomorrow morning's the MRI. Felt a shade better today, though not in top form... but that may be due as much to stress as anything else. Just want to feel great again. I so rarely get sick! I hate this not feeling up to par, not being able to cook on all burners, all of the time. I did exercise yesterday and today (and man, sore arms!), so that's an improvement.

Posted by toni at April 26, 2004 09:18 PM