The stream of consciousness ramblings of a young entrepreneur…

Alright - so we all have our moments where we just like to sit back and think about a few things. Whether it’s business, personal, relationships, politics, religion or any other random topic that crosses our mind. Today I’m spending some time briefly over driving around Yosemite National Park. I’m staying in Santa Clara, CA with my business partner working on a project and we decided to head out to Yosemite to spend our Saturday. I’m hoping to make this a regular column; every 2 weeks I’d like to go somewhere scenic and relax, enjoy the scenery and focus on a few key areas. Knowing me, it’ll primarily be business, but I’m sure there will be personal things mixed in as well. This column is where you can stay updated on all of that…

I will tell you this, if you ever get a chance to go, do what it takes to make it here. We didn’t even make it into the “official” state park because we didn’t have tire chains and I wasn’t about to spend $95 to get inside ($20 entrance and $75 for chains) on a rental car, but the 3 hour drive from the hotel as well as several of the Vista view viewpoints have been gorgeous. At this very moment, I’m sitting on my Cingular/AT&T card on my laptop and making this post while looking out over the canyons and mountains of the park. Breathtaking. My colleague is sitting next to me, we’re sitting in the rental Altima watching the snow and discussing our latest business venture.

It’s rare that you get to relax and escape from the daily stress and grind - yet still get a tremendous accomplished. Most people would say, man, you’re in the middle of one of nature’s greatest wonders - quit working and ENJOY IT! Folks, let me be the first to say, if I could sit here and do business every day, I’d be a happy man. In 10 years I will look back and say that a lot of the beginnings of my success were started while sitting in Yosemite National Park. I’m OK with that.

Our current task is to figure out the most appropriate way to approach the issue of patenting something. We are currently working with a close friend of his to figure out what the best approach will be… As the project itself also involves coding and development work, we’re looking into different avenues; should we do development ourselves and in-house or should we hire a developer overseas? What are your thoughts - obviously we like to keep jobs domestically and such - but we’ve got an extremely limited budget from a monetary and time perspective. Perhaps part of the development should be handled domestically and part outsourced?

Today’s question for anyone reading this, what are your recommendations and experiences in regards to pursuing multiple patents/trademarks/copyrights and outsourced development? What are some of the hidden costs involved that you’ve come across?

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