• I summoned the courage to give up working. Twice.
• I found ICount as a partner.
• I developed the biggest list on the internet of government-transformation sites
• I talked to all of the founders that would take my calls.
• I built a prototype with very compromised technology
• I stepped up to “become a visionary”
• I reached many groups and tor their agreement to send many millions of members to PeopleCount when it launches
• I spent many, many nights and weekends reaching lots of people and talking with them
• I actually listened to them
• I contacted and met with a political author
• After he gave a talk, I gave billionaire Tom Steyer a 1-minute pitch. He said it sounded promising and gave me his card. No one ever answered his phone or returned any of about a hundred phone messages and emails.
• I was contacted by the UN and met with a guy- he’s interested once it’s up and running- the UN wants a way to represent people, not just governments.
• I spent some money on marketing help, got some articles published and learned about marketing consultants.
• Developed very promising marketing and launch plans
• Let it go after 8 months and found a job in 2013
• Continuing to work on it in the background
• Took it up full time again in 2015
• Came up with a key improvement, and later, a post-MVP killer feature
• Found a partner, worked through most of the details,
• Was heartbroken when he bailed, but didn’t give up,
• Handled severe, episodic depression since 2016, never gave in to the cynical meaning of the emotions, but accepted that severe failure effects the mind.
• Committing to work with a business coach for a year
• Began regular blogging
• Tried to build MVP (first product) using offshore help
• Found 2 real partners, one to manage the offshore team
• Wasn’t stopped when the offshore team proved dishonest
• Found a team with good references
• Took over the everything when one partner was in a car accident and the other was consumed by a divorce,
• Fired team 2 when they proved to be incompetent
• Tried a third team and fired them quickly for dishonesty.
• Found a fourth team and worked with them
• Built and rebuild much of the code myself, including learning 3 new technologies
• Let team 4 go when they reached their limit and couldn’t deliver what was promised
• Searched for others who could pick up the work and tried some consultants
• Found a 5th team- two Americans
• Let them go when they insisted on changing the tech, but cut huge corners on the functionality
• Kept successfully handling the depression
• Gave up when the election became too close to launch
• Continued to blog (370 articles are published on the blog)
• Found a new job
• Continue to work on PeopleCount nights and weekends, without a break
• Found new people to work with
• Constantly maturely handle people not keeping their word.
• Keep reaching out

Best wishes…