So…I was a #startup co-founder

It’s been awhile since a new post was added to my site and it’s because a lot has been going on. Business has been good. A partnership fell apart. Pivots happened and plans changed. Essentially, the normal ups and downs of being an entrepreneur are to blame, but I’m not complaining. I can honestly say that things have been good overall.

This past April, I wrote and scheduled the below italicized text. I had just joined an exciting startup as a co-founder and I was giddy about entering the tech startup space. I wrote this post initially to make the announcement to everyone as well as use the post as a way to cross promote the startup across my networks.

Life, in its usual fashion, decided to disrupt my plans. I had to make an exit from my new exciting startup life because I just didn’t have the time available to devote to the startup’s needs and proposed timeline to launch. I just didn’t have the bandwidth to do it all–run Colleen Eakins Design and help build the startup.

The startup had to go on without me and although I’m sad I was unable to take the ride with them, I still want to publish what I had written then:

Back at the beginning of the year I listed three goals for 2016 and I am seeing progress towards those goals. One of those goals was to plan and execute on another revenue source besides the ones I currently have.

It looks like this is going to be realized through the most recent development in my business life–I was asked to be a co-founder for Mully Lingua. Mully Lingua will be a web and mobile platform to allow parents to find, book and partake in cultural and language activities for their children. I had previously done work to create the logo for Mully Lingua (currently in my portfolio) by a client that I have worked with for several years, Tami Garcia.

Mully Lingua was born from the definition “necessity is the mother of invention;” because she wanted better cultural experiences, opportunities and language exposure for her daughter. She wanted to create the experiences that would aide in her being a well-rounded and highly skilled global citizen. After speaking with other parents in the Washington, D.C. area, she realized they shared her same frustration of finding affordable and convenient options to meet this need.

It was that need that brought her to me and started the brand. Since it’s inception, she and I have been meeting to discus branding and what the technical and design needs would be for the service itself, as well as the marketing for the service. A couple weeks ago, she asked me to come on as a co-founder.

Yay! I must say, I’m pretty excited about this venture and I’m excited to be on track to meet another goal I set for this year.

We are currently in the planning, designing and development stages of the project and that means my blog posting is probably going to be a bit more sporadic than it had already become. For now, I am planning to try to post at least once a month and it may very well mean that most of my postings will encompass the high’s, low’s and woe’s of start-up life.

While we are slaving away, you can stop by Mully Lingua online, to see what we are up to!

Although I am no longer involved, I still want you guys to go check them out and sign-up to Become A Mully Lingua Beta Tester.