No Tequila

but still a good meeting with an investment facilitator.

I was electronically introduced to him from one of the people I met at the Dutch pitch night.

Our meeting today - over a coffee - took more than an hour and the next step is for him to meet the Crazy Chicken.

Tiring

I've been battling with app problems, or to be more accurate iPhone app problems. I had to roll out the Android update - as there were some important fixes required - before I could get the app working on iPhone.

Appery.io had done an upgrade to their development app so it now supports iOS 10. Which should be good as I had to do a lot of work arounds beforehand. But it seems that I will now have to do different workarounds instead.

Last year, for the first time ever, I was able to run 10km in under an hour consistently. That was because every time I got stuck running helped me clear my head. So as a result I became really fit.

This year I haven't been able to run. I went ski-ing for a weekend in January and that meant that everything ached.

Anyway, today it was sunny and almost not cold so I did a slow 40 minute run.

I felt much better about the iOS app problems and made progress.

Lesson learnt - gotta keep fit.

Then, this evening I went to a Startup Pitch event featuring businesses from The Netherlands.

I did wonder why I was there as was the person sitting next to me who, it turned out, now works at a VC. Contact was made. I also exchanged cards with a couple of other people.

So worth going but there was no food or alcohol which is very unusual for these events. As a result I am starving.

How to tell if you have had a good customer meeting?

When the customer breaks out the Tequila.

And we are talking real Mexican Tequila, complete with salt and lime.

In the afternoon.

Monday

After a weekend of falling downhill a lot ski-ing today the flyers and stickers arrived. Handed over half to the Crazy Chicken and we are now rapidly losing excuses not to get our first businesses to actually use the solution.

By the way, Vistaprint did a very good job. they look great.

Sticky

After a bit of too-ing and fro-ing I was finally able to order flyers and window stickers.

Well, you learn something new every day including:

• don't use the rude vulvas at local print shops in Munich
• instead use online services such as Vistaprint - they are cheaper and more helpful. OK, they take a few days but only a few and obviously you can't get a pre-run sample
• colours vary depending on code used CMYK v. RGB. Vistaprint (and I guess others) best work with CMYK.

We should get these on Monday.

Networking whilst shooting a movie

On Thursday as I was an extra in an independent movie that was being shot in Munich.

It was actually shot in a pub I often go to.

I actually had a line (unusual for extras) because I had the most English accent of the extras.

Whilst waiting around between filming I was talking to another extra who was interested in our company.

Yesterday I met her to take the discussions forward. Wow, she had a list of comments about the app and the web site. I hadn't expected that.

My co-founder - and maybe me as well - will have further discussions with her.

sboring

aka as the post Christmas (and New Year) catch up.

It wasn't exciting.

Did roll out a new release (which kinda justified the purchase of the MacBook Pro so I could do this whilst I was away).