Sorry I’ve not updated this in so long, it’s now the 25th and I’ve been away without internet access. Now my job seems to be writing a Blog, for that’s what will occupy the next couple of days. Curse this questionable project – it is a weight around my lazy neck.
I could of course not bother with writing up the days I’ve missed but unfortunately I am mentally ill and have to keep everything complete. This is maybe why my Nintendo DS game said I have a brain age of 74. People in their seventies tend to be very stuck in their ways.
So, what happened in the dim and distant past of the 19th October 2006? When the internet was in it’s infancy and people still believed in witches. Well it was a momentous day for Global Hangover. I paid Online48, the design company, their first payment, which means they can officially start work. This made me feel a little jittery, because now this will either happen, which would be incredible, or it won’t happen and I’ll be severely out of pocket. There’s no messing about now, it’s time to concentrate.
Financially it shouldn’t hit me or any individual too hard because the work that’s being done now, many thousands of pounds worth, is only to take the project up to a level where we can approach the big-boy investors who can provide the cash to launch this properly worldwide. That will cost a minimum of £300,000, probably closer to half a million pounds (which is just scary) and so we need to put together a really impressive presentation in order to achieve this. This is the work that’s currently just started, but I’ve been told that it shouldn’t involve me paying any more personally (and have today’s payment refunded) because there are a couple of channels we can go down to firstly have 40% of the costs paid by European funding, and then the remainder paid by a company called Liverpool Vision, who set up companies on Merseyside. This just means filling out forms and applying but we’ve got a backdoor route in and so we’re confident we can get this.
It does, for the five hundredth time this week, make me wonder if I have the ability to head up a big organisation with zero experience, but I suppose we’ll just have to wait and see.
I left the Online48 offices and made another call to Urban Splash regarding the office we saw last week. I confirmed we wanted it, and went up to sign the forms, handing over another cheque.
So work has started, and we have an office – moving in on the 1st. I suppose, if this does all work, I’ll be able to look back on today as one of the most significant in the initial stages of GH. We’ve not achieved anything as yet, but this might be described as Day Zero. It scares me as much as it excites me. I can’t really believe work has begun, and we have our first office, but then it does feel rather natural, as if it’s what we should be doing. Then there’s a third element of really wanting to prove people wrong and prove that you don’t need a proper job to be successful, a fourth element of appeasing my parents by doing something big, and I suppose a fifth that is for riches and luxuries. Again, we’ll just have to wait and see.
But I rang Dad and told him the news. He was 20% wary but 80% “Go for it.� Later in the evening I sent him a text that said this would be a nervous but exciting next couple of years. His reply was fantastic and just the tonic I needed. It read;
“As Granddad said ‘A faint heart never won a fair lady’. Love Dad.�
A faint heart never won a fair lady… I think that might become the companies slogan.
We are on our way.
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