Well, for the past week I’ve been working on putting together a funding presentation for Lorain County Community College’s Innovation Fund. Today we went up and gave the presentation and it went generally pretty well although there were a few things I needed to improve (note to self: don’t make jokes about older people in a room full of people older than yourself). But our dreams were realized and we’ve been awarded a $25,000 grant from Innovation Fund to continue developing Skritter. This means a lot to us, and we’re looking forward to working with the Innovation Fund staff to keep improving Skritter.
Most of the capital we raised will be spent on fundamentals: a Google Adwords campaign, print advertising, rent to give us more development time, and money to hire an intern. We had to cut the Ferrari and Malibu beach house for sustainability reasons, but hopefully we can afford those minor expenditures later on. 🙂
We’re pretty excited about this whole getting more money thing, and maybe Scott and I will even be able to convince Nick to go out to the Indian celebration restaurant as a victory reward tomorrow.