Its a happy day today… to be discussed on someone else’s blog is one thing… but to be discussed on TechCrunch is pretty exciting stuff! And even more special is that I am three blog posts away from my good friend Nigel’s company Zygo Communications. Not a bad day for Skimbit.

So, now I just need this post to inspire other influential bloggers, and this buzz to drive customers to the site and potential clients knocking on my door… So if anyone is reading this and owns a blog… be a mate and start the buzz!

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Running a business is hard enough to do, and doing it on your own is unfathomably difficult. I had always intended to hire a couple of people as soon as I got funding, but although my last entry posted 6 weeks ago said I got funding, that funding is still being processed, which completely stifled my ability to act upon my plans.

After 5 weeks though, I realised that I just needed to move forward with or without the funding. I was achingly aware of how incapable I was of doing it all on my own. So after consulting with various people, I decided to put an ad on the Gumtree. I couldn’t afford a proper recruitment consultant, or expensive advertisements. Gumtree is a fantastic place to get employees - its very cheap to post an advert, you get massive numbers of people responding, and the calibre of people is excellent.

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Its quite startling to sit here and attempt to summarise what the last 2 months have meant to my startup. The last time I wrote to you was the eve of my departure from Sydney for 7 week trip overseas. The trip - besides being fun - had the following goals:

• developing a stronger bond with my fantastic team of developers in Bucharest
• investigating the venture capital market in London
• researching the wedding and travel market further

I do not think I could ever have anticipated how successful my trip would be on all fronts.

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