It's time to come back to why now was the time for me to start working towards a side-project. Sure, months of remote work from home, and a global pandemic has left a huge void of time that can now be focused on something else. But, for every motivation, there's a spark that ignites it. For me, that was discovering the no-code/visual programming tools, Bubble and Webflow.

If you listen to or read enough startup and venture content, you'll start to recognize similar themes repeated over and over again. One that has consistently stood out to me is the investor concept that "Ideas don't matter. It's the founding team and their ability to execute that matters." This is meant to say that anyone could've had the idea for Uber, Facebook, Airbnb, etc (and others did). But, the only reason why we know of those companies today is because of how the team successfully executed on their vision by building products, listening

I have never been a startup founder. I am not a venture capitalist. I’ve spent a total of ~48 hours in the Bay Area. But I’m super interested in startups, venture, and thinking about the future. Today, most of venture capital (how startups raise money) sits within a few blocks in California, drawing startup founders and innovators from all over the world to converge to this region, Silicon Valley.During the COVID-19 response, this set-up began to crack. In a world where work from home became the norm, and Silicon Valley real estate was still