Birth of a Startup

In 2006, while dealing with a relationship breakup, I started a company in my living room. To keep myself sane during that lonely, stressful, exciting time, I started a blog. I called it Birth of a Startup, and I meticulously documented all the highs, lows, and (very many) mundane moments, over the first few years of building my first company.

The blog went dormant for a while, but I managed to rescue the posts and resurrect them in this new blog. I plan to continue adding to this section of my blog as I continue to birth new startups, and make all sorts of new mistakes along the way. Enjoy (and scroll down to 2006-2008 posts to have a solid giggle at how naive I was!).

17 Jan, 2007

Negotiating contracts – part 1

Alicia Navarro2019-02-24T18:36:43+00:00January 17th, 2007|Birth of a Startup, Lessons & Advice, Ruminations|

It was quite a scary process for me to finalise the contract with the development house I engaged to develop my site. They are based outside Australia (where I am based), and so all negotiations and discussions were conducted via email and telephone. You don't realise how difficult it is to develop rapport with someone

16 Jan, 2007

Sleep deprivation

Alicia Navarro2018-10-03T19:49:07+01:00January 16th, 2007|Birth of a Startup, Ruminations|

The thing I find the hardest to cope with while trying to start a business and work full-time, is the sleep deprivation. This is made significantly worse is you try to be healthy and exercise, because the only time I can do so is before I go to work. This means waking up at 6am,

1 Jan, 2007

Here we go…

Alicia Navarro2018-10-03T19:46:48+01:00January 1st, 2007|Birth of a Startup, Ruminations|

Damn, I hate to admit it, but Google are good. After struggling for more hours than I will admit, trying to get the Terapad blogging service to look vaguely customised, I heaved a sigh of resignation, and transferred over to Google's Blogger service. It may not be as professional, but goodness, it is easy. So