Christophe Maximin

Synchronism.

Almost two years ago, around February 2007, I left school to have more time to improve my skills in rails, system administration, ... skills that will be useful once I would have opened my company.For as far as I can remember, I've always wanted to run a Web Applications Oriented company, instead of just creating websites for other companies.
Last month, I was joined, in London, by my good friend and now colleague Manu, who is (among others) a very talented graphic designer and PHP developer.
Last week, we released our first web application: Monitoria, a website uptime monitoring service. It has been running for 10 days now, without any major bumps, so, in less than five days, we will begin a large scale promotional campaign, and just see what happens next.

Yes, this has been, and is still, financially very tough for me (and now us), and of course the recession is not helping right now... but still, this is what I've been waiting for many many years now, so I'm really over excited.

Synchronism.

Almost two years ago, on February 10 of 2007, Barack Obama officially launched his presidential campaign, in his home state of Illinois.

Okay, first of all, I'm a political nerd since my childhood, so I've always been interested in big elections in my countries (USA, France, UK): I can still remember the 2000 election! (I was 13!). I'm especially fond of the game of political strategy, probably because I love History. So when History, big or small, is in the making, I have to listen, watch, read and understand.

The first time I really heard about him was in September 2006, on television, and I really started to pay attention with this cover from the Time magazine, of October 23rd 2006.
After 8 years of the anti-intellectual and religious right bringing the country to his knees, it was time for some change. Not a revolution, just heading the country in a slightly better direction.
I understood that, with that guy, this could be the most interesting and exciting election in a generation. I was not mistaken.

Record amounts of money raised, record turnouts, broken barriers, ... It has also been the funniest election in a while, thanks to candidates themselves and the madness of their campaign staff, thanks to the media, and thanks to Stewart, Colbert and Letterman of course. In less than five days, according to all polls and projections, he will be elected president.

Now, just combine the pre-election anxiety and the entrepreneurship stress... Yeah, this is how I feel right now.

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