Kickstarter

As most of you know, part of sharing our journey with the world has been sharing things as they come -- no censor, no security, no sure-things.  So we’ve shared what’s gone right, and we’ve also shared what’s gone wrong.

Lately, a lot has been going right -- the launch of our new site, a window display for Create Denver, and successful planning for our summer tour.

But this weekend, we got some bad news. Our sew shop is taking longer than originally estimated. It’s taking them about 20 minutes to make each Versalette, and they’ve had to add two more employees to the line. They’ve suggested sending us smaller shipments by color, with everything to be completed in the last half of June and the first half of July.

We’ve been given estimations before -- and passed them along to you -- and yet, we are all still waiting. But because they have actually started the process of cutting fabric, prepping, and sewing for test times, we do believe that this is going to be our final date of completion.

We share every bit of news -- that’s our ‘thing.’ Maybe sometimes we shouldn’t. Maybe we shouldn’t have sent out estimations or opened pre-sales. Maybe we should have looked for a different sew shop a long time ago. Maybe we should have waited to Kickstart until we were further along in the production process --but as anyone in the entreprenerial world advises, we opted to just do it. Take the leap of faith. And figure out the details later.  

Coulda, shoulda, woulda. We made the best decisions we could at these times, with the information that was available to us.

This is what a new business looks like -- trials, successes, errors, an insane learning curve -- and we have chosen to live that experience in a ‘public’ way through our writing. So while this is a tough post to write, the most important thing for us is to keep everyone up-to-date and to share the things that are happening in real-time, just like we’ve always done.

We’ll be sending out an e-mail to all Kickstarter backers and pre-sales buyers to make sure no one is waiting by their mailbox ; )

At the end of the day, we are all still supporting a process we believe in. Despite ongoing setbacks, we know this makes a difference -- and that’s what it’s all about. {r}