I wouldn’t call myself an avid blog reader, however, I do follow a few business blogs that I find some good info on. My parents who are really tech savvy people, rarely look at blogs and seem somewhat annoyed by them. I think I have figured out why. I happened upon a blog this afternoon from a new start-up company. The company is barely a year old, has managed to raise some VC and probably has some staying power in the marketplace. The founders are young and motivated (weren’t we all young and motivated once?) and have a blog that they post various ramblings and videos on.

I watched 2 or 3 of their videos today and my sarcastic hat fell right on my head! Before I knew it, I was making snide comments at my monitor and challenging the guy in the video to answer my questions about claims he just made. He was making many global comments about business in general and I had to stop wonder if he really knew what he was talking about.

While growing a business with someone else’s money has its own challenges and issues, growing a company organically with your own time and money invested seems to me the more legit way to do it. I have more respect for Bill Gates, who funded and grew his own company, than for any of the .com businesses that boomed on the back of other peoples coin. If I am going to listen to business advice from someone, they had better know what the heck they are talking about. I guess it goes back to the old “do as I say not as I do” adage.

I really do not want to discount any success that any business has. Whether you did it with your money or someone else’s, it is a hard road to walk down regardless. I can’t wait until NSNA and the ProFusion line of products blows up… I am sure people will be calling us over night successes and saying that we were lucky. That’s because they don’t see the money we have invested over the past 5 years and they don’t realize we are up at 5am and working till 1am. That’s ok… when someone calls us an overnight success, I’ll just smile and think of this blog post.

Happy Sunny day to you.