Just around the river bend.

Don’t say it.

I can hear it already sitting in the back of your throat. I know, I’m sorry I didn’t post yesterday. But it was for good reason; just like any school kid might say. We all took a field trip yesterday, piled into Marguerite's car and drove to Middlebury to go consult/meet our company lawyer.

One of the things that makes us stand apart, in my eyes, is that we all work together extraordinarily well. This is beyond just being able to tolerate everyone's presence. We are a great dynamic team, each with their own unique skill sets and who are more than just colleagues.

I mean, Mike and I live together, we all have board game night once a week (usually), and we all end up going to films together.

Because of this, if someone is feeling uneasy about some aspect, we pounce on it and try to figure out all together the best way to navigate forward. So that was what we did, we took the time to plan on how to get around the next bend.

Apparently this is rare. Last summer, when we were working in our spare time on Loc, there was another group of Champlain kids, seniors who had just graduated, that were trying to start up a company based around an arcade shooter they had made during the Global Game Jam. They were working in the labs and almost every time we were there to just meet up and touch base we heard them arguing, yelling at one another and threatening to leave.

Our lawyer put it perfectly, starting a company is like a marriage. Everyone has to be invested, actively engaged, and you need to be in it for the long haul.

So advice for anyone thinking of starting their own, make sure you have the right people, more than anything else. A speaker at the Montreal International Game Summit (MIGS) who was giving a talk about start-up development called the people you start with your soul mates. You are going to go through hell sometimes and you need to be sure that they will all be with you through the heat and in the end help pull you out of the fire.