1. Write a novel

2. Start a business

3. Return to Colorado

 

Starting a business, Pocket.Jobs was exhilarating.  Wring a novel, is something that I love doing in my free time. Transitioning home to Colorado, well that scared the begeezus out of me.  I mulled and thought and stressed and strained but as I put that thought into the universe, things started to happen that made my move not only a probability, but a necessity. We were going home.

 

I arrived on December 12 with my son with a sense of adventure. Before I left New Zealand I had been working with Steve Ziegler, a Colorado native, recruiter, business owner, and entrepreneur extraordinaire on Pocket.Jobs, the microtasking site I have brought back with me!

 

My first clue into the vibrant, open and supportive nature of the Colorado startup community was Steve's willingness to help on Pocket.Jobs. I had sent him an email months and months before from New Zealand asking him if he would be interested in being an advisor and supporting Pocket.Jobs' move to Denver/Boulder. "Heck ya!" was his response and the enthusiasm with which he has engaged in an unknown, bootstrapping company with a founder he "did not know from a bar of soap" (to use a New Zealand expression). 'Helpful' would be a gross understatement.

 

As I hopped on the 32 hour trip back to the USA, I was fielding text messages and emails from Steve of all the people I had to meet.

 

Since then, I have been wowed, feel blessed and exhilarated. In two and a half months I have put 3000 miles on my car meeting people, attending meetups such as BDNT, project managing JB Holston's and team's visit of the Obama for America tech team and even spent a day at TechStars!

 

If I listed all the people that have given me an insight, a piece of advice, an introduction or a push to keep my chin up and keep going, this post would be pages long! My gratitude to all.

 

If you have always wanted to start something, do it, and do it in Denver/Boulder!  I can't promise you'll be an overnight  millionaire, but I can promise it will be a better learning experience than any MBA could ever afford you and you will meet, and invariably get sucked into the allure of an amazing Tech scene. Watch out Silicon Valley, here comes Boulder/Denver!