Sunday, February 21, 2010

Fulfillment Issue

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" :).