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Thank you all for your words of encouragement regarding my recent posts about DataSync. In the mist of the thrill of what’s going on, I feel I need to recognize a couple key truths:

1. This happened because of God’s blessing and hard work by a large group of people. It didn’t happen just because of me, but I’m honored to be a part of it all.
2. This is just the beginning, we have a long, difficult road ahead of us.

I firmly believe that this project is working because God’s hand of blessing is on it. At most times it wasn’t deserved. Success is built on so many ‘chance’ encounters that I choose to believe stuff like this isn’t chance. God chooses to give and take away, and in this season he’s blessed our work.

In addition, we got funded because of a team at DataSync that was relentless. The people behind this project believe in it as strongly as I do. They kept hammering on it through the dark times along with me, and I’m grateful for all of their help. Second, our advisory team was instrumental in getting this project moving. Mari Beth Baumberger (Enterprise Institute), Al Kurtenbach (Daktronics), John Hemmingstad (Small Business Development Center), and my entire seed advisory board contributed greatly.

It’s easy to bask in the glow of winning, but that would be very short sighted. A close adviser told me this today: “You’ve graduated, Congratulations! Enjoy the moment… You now have significantly more at stake… it’s time to get serious and lead your team to the next level. Ready?”. I am ready. The rough road has just begun. It’s going to get more challenging for the company in the coming months and years. After all, we’re growing into a shrinking economy. It’s not going to be easy.

However this company is built on the principles of faithful, diligent, and outright hard work. We’re going to be up against great challenges and difficult decisions. We will prevail.

Thanks for sharing the journey with me!

Tags: funding, growth, thankyou

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