Serious Validation & Goals

Posted by Ronan on Nov 7, 2009 in LEAP, cauwill, innovation, technology | 0 comments

We got some serious validation of our business model this week when we got the phone call from InterTradeIreland Friday.

Cauwill, (Founded by Ian Rice and myself) won the Best Emerging Company in Munster 2009.

Getting customers and validating our business is an important goal for us and it just happened that Fergal was in again to talk to us on Goals.

Thankfully those two goals have now been achieved and we delighted!

Unfortunately I couldn’t stay his entire session (we had a few meetings and prep work to do for Seedcorn) but I really enjoyed the half day.

We did an exercise where we had to fill out our goals. There was 3 categories. Personal(life) goals.. Things (I’d like to have) and Financial Goals. Each of these then had to assigned a time scale (1, 3,5 ,10 and 20 years), then we had to take our top 3 one year goals and assign a first task in achieving it.

To be honest, I was so surprise to find myself pouring out personal goals, finding it difficult to ‘want stuff’ and the financial goals were short. I was expecting myself to ‘Want’ more stuff.. after all I do like gadgets but I just didn’t really feel I really really wanted them.. whereas the personal stuff I really really wanted.

Very interesting exercise. Really makes you think of whats important to YOU and your business..

The other exercise was to write up your business purpose in 3 sentences.  Then, other people got to review it and leave comments on it.  Because it was psuedo anonymous I felt I should leave fair and constructive comments and not be afraid of putting someones nose out of joint. In return, I wanted the same. I got it too from others that attended and you know it really helped in getting my thoughts together for the Seedcorn presentation. Thanks guys!