Continuing on with the saga that was my life as an entrepreneur, we come to the end of 1999 and the dreaded Year 2000 (Y2K). Suddenly it was nearing Christmas in 1999 and Y2K hype was everywhere. According to analysts and experts the world was about to end. I had my doubts, but it was fun listening to everyone think on January 1st everything computerized would just stop. Sigh. But we were busy in our own little world. We had product to finish and problems to resolve. We had a company to grow and, most of all, customers to hunt down and satisfy. Growing the company during the dot com mania wasn’t difficult. It was trying to convince everyone we shouldn’t that got you no where. Our VCs, like all VCs, were saying we had to grow big; grow big and grow fast. The bigger the better. And money was thrown around to assist in this. We were told to grow to 100 people in 2000 or else we’d miss out. We couldn’t and wouldn’t be a player if we didn’t have a fully staffed professional services, a marketing department pushing our wares, sales offices here, there, and everywhere. We

