We finished it.  We finished the auction system.  We have had two relatively successful auctions.  I say relatively successful because the auction system worked great, but we didn’t have many bidders online.  

In the last auction we had 129 registered members.  We generated about 50 leads.  The system had no glitches or crashes for the whole event.  I think it went great!

The problem we have now, after two auctions, is that we are out of money.  We have one more auction coming up in two weeks and that’s all we have scheduled.  You see, we lost a partner last month, Jeff, who was our sales guy.  He was the pivotal partner to making this whole thing work after the software was finished.  Since then we have lost money and had to let go of our sales team.

What we really need now is funding.  We need a few hundred thousand to get a top notch sales team together and start moving this business forward.  In three months we could be generating enough to keep the business running.  Three more months is all we need.

Well, for now I’m going to go back to consulting.  I have one gig lined up, but that’s only going to get me a quarter of what I need to keep my bills paid.  If only I could sell my house I could pay off all my debt and start new.  But for now at least I still have my house and that’s good enough for me.