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Thursday,
February 7th
On this date last year...

"My stomach hurts..."

I'm taking a deep breath as I write this.

Let me review this for just a moment.

Just before I took off for the holidays in mid-December, I thought I was done with everything. I defined the business model. I laid out the screen shots. I determined a basic P/L statement, and the day before I left, Ginny took a good hard look at my proposed business and said, "Looks great Christine, but can you simplify?"

She told me what she needed as a potential client, comments that I could not but take into consideration, so somewhere between my holiday travels -- to the West Coast, the East Coast, the West Coast again, Shanghai and back to Taipei on the first week of January -- and now, I somehow managed to:

Revamp the business model
Redo the screen shots
Re-calculate my P/L figures
Ask Nelson to help me draw up the financials
Determine co. valuation (also with Nelson's help)
Raise 70% of the start-up capital I need in verbal commitments
(enough for me to roll with it), and
Target a top-notch web dev. team for a proposal

In the meantime, my lawyer (whose firm has been supportive of ORIENTED from the getgo...) and I are meeting with my old accountant (who supported Gus and myself throughout the time that .ORG was registered as an Ltd. in the R.O.C...) tomorrow night to determine how best to incorporate the company, just before the start of Chinese New Years.

All of them -- and I mean each and every one of the people I have involved in this project and under various capacities -- are good people, and they are very good at what they do professionally. I have full confidence in their abilities and therefore in my own to take this as far as it can possibly go.

Most importantly, they believe in it for all the reasons that I do, not necessarily as a "money-maker", but as a very useful service for the people who will be using the site and the positive impact that it will have to the greater business community.

But my point is...

Everything is set to go.

I just need to say the word.

And yet all-of-a-sudden, I've got what Jim refers to as --> "Startup Jitters."

And I feel like throwing up... help...