Praise and Criticism

We have received a lot of positive feedback, but also negative. Responding to the criticisms might give a better idea of what we're doing, so here is something I wrote on the TomorrowToday website (http://www.tmtd.biz/2005/10/05/extreme-business/#comments)

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We first had the idea for this project 2 weeks ago and we didn't want to lose momemtum, so it has all been put together very quickly. I'm sure we have made plenty of mistakes, but here are some responses to the ones that you highlighted.

1) The four of us are friends who run our own small businesses, and work on projects together. We decided to do this project together mainly for fun and to extend ourselves. We didn't aim to create a multi-cultural, multi-gender "team". This thing just happened.

2) Because we all run small businesses, we tried to miss as little work time as possible, which is why we ended on a Saturday. We initially thought of doing it on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, but that would have made for a very tiring weekend! It also adds a bit of reality - most new businesses start during evenings and weekends.

3) I'm surprised that Anj is able to criticise our sales experience from the little he/she knows of us. I suppose it's up to us to prove ourselves!

The exposure that we have received has totally taken us by surprise. We didn't expect it, and I don't think we would have gone to all this effort in the hope of some publicity.