I’m in my last year of school and I’ve been reading two really interesting books, “Good to Great” and the “E-Myth”. These both give a great perspective on how a business should be run. First of all, Good to Great teaches that the first thing to do is to have a good CEO who is humble and very driven for success. Then that person needs to find great people to work with.

That principle seems to hold true with Provo Labs Solutions. Yes, we are still alive. We’re doing quite well actually. We already have one project underway with quite a few in process. We all even received our first paycheck! Not bad! The noly reason we’ve pulled it off so far is that Phil hired “the right people”.

our new struggle, as I’ve discovered in the E-Myth book is that we are no longer an “infant” company but rather an “adolescent” company. We have been doing everything on our own up until now and have rapidly outgrown ourselves literally overnight. We’ve hired a couple of extra people but need to hire quite a few more if we are going to make it the next month. Again, the critical point will be hiring the “right” people. So if any of my readers believe you are the “right” people or know of the “right” people, feel free to respond. I’d love to hear about it.

OK, so for the past month, I have been with Provo Labs Solutions.  We’ve worked extremely hard, in good faith, that after trials, the blessings would come.  We’ve held together strong as a team and I believe we are finally coming around.  We are getting contracts put together for one company who will have work for us for months and perhaps a year.  We have another similar contract in the works for a .NET team that we can hire.  It is exactly this that we’ve been working for.  If and when these contracts are signed, I know we will all be quite relieved.
I know a lot of my associates haven’t agreed with my decision to continue working with PLS.  I understand the cost/benefits of risk.  Anything worth fighting for is risky.  I’ve got a lot at stake.  But everyone here in our little company agree that it is a calculated risk and well worth it.

I’ve learned a lot over this past month and have gotten a glance of the entrepreneurial spirit.  It’s absolutely exhilarating to have a job that isn’t just 8:00 to 5:00 where you are a robot doing your specified task.  Here, we are fighting just to survive and make our payroll.  I think it’s really brought our company together and I see a very bright future for us.

I hope you’ll keep reading our blog posts over the next few weeks.  It’ll be interesting to see where we are on September 20th when we launch TAGJUNGLE!