I am on a plane headed for Dallas to meet up with two people to then meet another. The two are the CEO and lead investor of a new startup that I have been invited to market and develop. The investor I have only me once but the CEO is the father of two very good friends. The third guy, the one we are all converging in Texas to meet is a scientist who has done some really cool stuff before and has worked with the CEO and who now claims to have perfected a process to create something that is the atom level building block of a number of things we use today. It isn’t new. It isn’t novel, well it is and it isn’t. Point being his process to develop this product is much cheaper than anyone at all on the market.

He says we are going to change the world.
And I believe him.

This, what I am doing right now, sitting on a plane to meet a mad scientist is the stuff books are made of.

I have an objective here and it starts with me sitting in front of him with a blank page. I want to open his head, scoop out the insides and smear them onto a set of slides. A little graphic but you get the picture.

You see beyond all reasoning of people outside of an entrepreneurial mindset lies a basic inability to leap. And believe me, I am fully aware of how HUGE this leap is. It is not that we startup types don’t know the risks. It is that we leap despite the risks. It is exciting. I know that is an over used word but it really is exciting.

You know what. I don’t ever want to be that guy that sits at the bar with the bartender two years down the line saying “remember when that mad scientist guy had that crazy idea and I was thinking about joining the company? Yeah what a good idea that might have been”

This really could be it – again of course but hey, that’s the world I am in.

And I love it.