Most of Tucoola's team don't come from the games world.
In the beginning, I lost sleep over this. Now I understand that this was one of the best things that happened to us.
Like in all other segments, a fresh point of view can generate new ideas, new products and new business.
Tucoola has become the start-up that everyone says "how come no one thought about it before" – I always had a dream to have a start-up that "took pleasure" from this praise.
When you combine the fresh point of view and the "praises", you get Tucoola.
Our status, less than a year after we obtained our first investment, is unbelievable:
We successfully transformed our algorithm from the notebook (a real one :)) to the technology and Tucoola's servers.
We have immense success with the games developers that view us as the new generation of distributors and a new money maker.
We have colossal success with the distributors and the portals that acknowledge Tucoola's benefit to them – innovation, new target market and new revenue stream.
We succeeded with the experts that join our belief that we supply an innovative way of delivering information to parents regarding their children's development progress and provide tools to improve it.
In spite of these successes, there is still a lot to do and a lot to prove:
We are still working on the new version of the Tucoola's Zone (the one for launch).
We are still working in the content arena to find the best content & partners for our target market.
We are still working on a new fund round and it seems to be challenging even in a time like this and even for a (so called) mature start-up.
These days the company is just like the sentence that my mom heard from my teachers – "The kid has potential but he needs to fulfill it".
I hope that soon, all these teachers think that both of us (the company and me) are OK on the "fulfillment issue" :).
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
My life as a father
I'm a father of one and soon I'll be of two.
When my firstborn arrived my life have changed like I couldn't even imagine.
Like all parents, my wife and I enjoy receiving compliments like: "he is great", "he is very mature" and we smile a lot because people think that he's smart.
Like everyone, everyday I find myself thinking about my family, work, health, money and yes, about my son's development progress.
Yes, this is part of my new life as a parent. I have evacuated an area in my brain when my child was born and now it is dedicated to thinking about him.
At the end of the day, it's really simple! I just want to hear that he is OK and on the right track. This is what Tucoola is about.
A few days ago, I had a meeting with two senior lecturers.
I'm trying to meet with as many experts as I can from the academic world in order to present Tucoola and get some feedback.
We have a great advisory board with the best people from every field in the Academy world, but still, it's important for me to share our life work with more experts, get more feedback, obtain new ideas, etc.
After meeting dozens of experts, it's official! They think that Tucoola is a nature product of the technology development in our days. They don’t think that it's too mechanical, they aren't threatened by Tucoola's technology and they understand that we don't want to take anyone's place - We just want to use the tools that the technology has given us and use it to understand and help our children.
Everyone agrees that monitoring and measuring children while playing games using Tucoola platform is a great solution for the new generation.
We are all interested in learning about our children's development progress, especially monitoring each child's personal advancement from the beginning to the end (with our famous graph that presents the development).
My son will be 2 years old this week and it's seems that soon, as a father, I'll be able to enjoy Tucoola :)!
When my firstborn arrived my life have changed like I couldn't even imagine.
Like all parents, my wife and I enjoy receiving compliments like: "he is great", "he is very mature" and we smile a lot because people think that he's smart.
Like everyone, everyday I find myself thinking about my family, work, health, money and yes, about my son's development progress.
Yes, this is part of my new life as a parent. I have evacuated an area in my brain when my child was born and now it is dedicated to thinking about him.
At the end of the day, it's really simple! I just want to hear that he is OK and on the right track. This is what Tucoola is about.
A few days ago, I had a meeting with two senior lecturers.
I'm trying to meet with as many experts as I can from the academic world in order to present Tucoola and get some feedback.
We have a great advisory board with the best people from every field in the Academy world, but still, it's important for me to share our life work with more experts, get more feedback, obtain new ideas, etc.
After meeting dozens of experts, it's official! They think that Tucoola is a nature product of the technology development in our days. They don’t think that it's too mechanical, they aren't threatened by Tucoola's technology and they understand that we don't want to take anyone's place - We just want to use the tools that the technology has given us and use it to understand and help our children.
Everyone agrees that monitoring and measuring children while playing games using Tucoola platform is a great solution for the new generation.
We are all interested in learning about our children's development progress, especially monitoring each child's personal advancement from the beginning to the end (with our famous graph that presents the development).
My son will be 2 years old this week and it's seems that soon, as a father, I'll be able to enjoy Tucoola :)!
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