2023 Mid Year Review

Written on 13 Jul 2023, 9 min read.

I’m six months into my journey of building a business which means its time to reflect and review the goals I set for the year. No further investment in co2mon.nz In March I made the decision to focus on completing the market research for co2mon.nz. The results of that research led to two key conclusions: Indoor air quality/ventilation is not a problem many people are actively thinking about or looking to spend money to improve.

Retrospective: Mar 2023

Written on 03 Apr 2023, 5 min read.

The key decision I made mid-March was to commit to pursuing ventilation monitoring as my primary product development focus. Prior to that decision, I hoped to use my writing plan to drive a breadth-first survey of the opportunities for each of my product ideas before deciding which had the best business potential to focus on first. Two factors changed my mind: As noted last month, I’m finding the writing process much slower and harder than I expected – the survey across all the ideas may not complete until mid-year or later!

Retrospective: Feb 2023

Written on 04 Mar 2023, 6 min read.

February ended up being a very short work month as I made a last minute decision to travel to Adelaide for the first 2 weeks of the month to help my brother with some house renovations he was undertaking. I thought I might be able to keep up with some work and my writing goals in the evenings while I was there, but days of hard manual labour are such an unfamiliar routine for me that I didn’t have any energy left to make good on that intention.