A brief history of us.

Mark Molckovsky
CEO/Founder ClutterMe Inc.

Mark has just finished his undergraduate education at the University of Toronto, majoring in Electrical Engineering. He has received the University of Toronto National Scholarship - the University's most prestigious undergraduate award. He met HRH Prince Philip upon receiving a Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award. He runs the blog and is responsible for the front-end, marketing, and financial aspects of ClutterMe Inc.

Alex Curelea
CTO/Founder ClutterMe Inc.

Alex immigrated to Canada from Romania in 1997. He graduated from the prestigious Tops Program at Marc Garneau Secondary school and was awarded a University of Toronto National Scholarship upon entering his study of Computer Engineering in 2001. Alex graduated in 2005 and has spent two years working at the Ontario Telemedicine Health Network. Alex is knee deep in all aspects of ClutterMe's technology.

Canadian vs. American Entrepreneurial Attitude

We are trying to start this company with as little investment as possible. I am told this is typical of the Canadian entrepreneur. Whereas the American entrepreneur is glad to trade capital over % ownership.

I originally inferred this to mean that the Canadian entrepreneurs are just less willing to give up control. I thought this mindset was somewhat embarrassing to be quite honest. We were always told it was better to have 51% of a watermelon than 100% of a peanut.

My views, after having started up a company, have somewhat changed. I now see how it is MORE courageous to turn down investment. Perhaps investors are like the "landmark of achievement" that many small business strive for. To say no to the flattery of someone wanting to invest in you, the fancy dinners, being courted, well that takes more courage than many have.

After all, investors are in there to make money. They haven't done the work, they are spending someone else's money. If the Canadian entrepreneurial scene is unwilling to let these guys in well, let's just say I understand their attitude. Not being accepted is more a mark of pride in Canada than anything else.

que pasol, que pasol

I just want to get back at it.

I hate standing around and blogging about our website. It's been 2 and a half days since Alex and I last worked full time on our start-up and it sucks. We cannot start a company if we let this much time pass between our productive work sessions.

I've been promised by Alex that this won't happen again, or at least it won't be like this till after mid-July but I can't help but question his commitment to the project.

In much funnier news, I feel like these guys...

missing our girlfriends

So we managed to eat half of Alex's birthday cake in less than two hours.

Not much news today in tech. advancement. Alex is still trying to get version 1.0 done (basic account functionality and sign up). We decided that the best approach would be to do the VERY lethargic and boring actions first.

I (mark) have been completely filling in the nuts and bolts of a releasable site. And we are both really excited. We have some new innovations that will let you talk to your loved ones without .. well, let's not spoil it here.

Peter Frost, our logo expert, has sent us the newest ClutterMe logos. We're quite excited about them.

Today is Alex's last day at my house before he goes back to work for three half days... what a maroon this kid is. In total I'd say I have 30 pages of edited and re-edited word document HLD (high level requirement documents) and Alex has about 30 new pages of code.

As I mentioned before, we have some new ideas and we're REALLY freakin' excited about them. So yes, the weekend was a moderate success. The next couple of days will encompass coding from home. What's on the menu for tonight? Great pun accomplished because it's dinner with Alex's parents.

I think the most important thing we got out of this weekend was DIRECTION. "It's invaluable"- says Alex. We almost have a defined site. The next major step will be to pick out a nice template for our User Accounts page and just keep hacking.

Code Chest Status: 0.1% full.

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Day Two

So big progress thus far... we've changed our blog address.


For more visibility and for users being able to leave comments we've switched from hosting our own blog (iWeb) to Blogger.com.

We hope the extra visibility from google and other bloggers will attract some more traffic to our blog.

Today is also one of our founders Birthday. Happy Birthday goes to Alex who turns 25 today. We're going out to celebrate, or at least we bought a cake.



In tech. notes there was and will be some more progress in the overall look of the main page. Perhaps tonight we could start 'adding friends'. Look for updates tonight for those with user accounts.