For those new to my blog, and everyone should be new to my blog because this is the first post, welcome. I am starting this post on the heels of finishing the initial non-”beta” or non-”experimental” release of STARTright. STARTright is a web application that helps people fill out the Articles of Organization for an LLC. It provides extremely detailed instructions on how to file the Articles with your state filing agency, and in some states STARTright provides a submission service for a little extra. This has been the project I have given the last three years of my life to. It is finally up and running, but life is just getting crazy.
When I graduated from law school in 2005, I was not sure what type of firm I wanted to be chained to for the rest of my life. My wife Ashleigh and I moved to North Carolina because we felt it was a good place to start. When we got there, we found it extremely difficult for me to get a job. I had graduated from a top 20 law school, but for some reason, I could not land that first law job. Looking around for something to start working at, I found a gig speaking with a real estate promoter. During this time, I began to study the legal discipline of asset protection in depth. What I found was a field that I loved. Small business strategies and tax planning became my first love. As I coached business owners, I began to fashion the idea for STARTright. I started working on STARTright in the spring of 2006, but financial needs forced me to seek legal employment.
In the fall of 2006, I started working for a law firm in Mesa Arizona. This is where STARTright really began to come together. In January of 2007, I moved to Utah to get family support. In Utah, I found some Angel Investors and with new capital and lots of enthusiasm, I got started. I spent the next seven months developing the concept and trying to get my ASP coders to make it happen. After seven to eight months of work (and knowing nothing about programming) I realize the product created does not work very well. My coders had fought and made bad decisions and … long story short, I got taken.
In August of 2008, I found a php programmer who was awesome. I had learned a great deal myself, and when together we retooled the entire architecture in four months. It runs like a dream now. It was the hardest three years of my life, but I can honestly say that I finished what I STARTed.
By education I am an Attorney, and pretty darn good one. By occupation, I have become a jack of all trades. This blog will contain very little of my thoughts on the law. This blog will be my personal blog where I talk about what I think as a business owner, entrepreneur, internet marketer, father, citizen and Christian disciple. I hope you enjoy.