The Chris Struttmann Report

Again, this post is VERY chopped up and not well organized, but that’s the way it is these days. The grammar is also TERRIBLE, but again, this is how it goes right now.

The Celebration!
A lot of people know that I’m the co-founder of a very small company called Brilliant Innovations Group, L.L.C. (BIG for short); if you don’t know this, I’m now telling you this, “I’m the co-founder of a company that goes by ‘Big.’” Starting a company was an amazing process to go through: filing papers with the state, opening bank accounts, reading and writing operating agreements, taxes, it’s all part of the experience.

Brilliant Innovations Group owns a website called TwiceText.com, TwiceText is a free, localized listing service for college textbooks that we launched in July of 2009. Think of your favorite online classifieds website, limit it to textbooks and instead of dividing it up by area, divide it up by school. Voila, you have TwiceText.com, which is our first ever public product; since two of the three company partners are college students, we’re pretty excited about it.

Today, we’re especially excited about our product: we made our first-ever generated revenue. What does this mean? It means that people saw some ads on our site, found them interesting, and clicked on them! Granted, we didn’t make much money at all, but it’s the proof of concept that we needed to say to ourselves, “this is actually working!” That confirmation compliments our confidence and is the kind of thing that keeps us motivated to continue doing what we do.

BIG and myself
When I tell people that I own a small company they say “well, what does your company do?” This question actually throws me for a loop; because we’re not a typical company, we can’t be categorized by one or two words. Yes, we own a product called TwiceText, but TwiceText is a piece of a bigger picture. So first we’ll start with what we are NOT, and then we’ll go in to what we ARE.

At Brilliant Innovations Group, L.L.C. we’re not engineers that design things to solve complex mathematical problems. BIG isn’t a company founded on the basis of exploiting millions in order to get rich; we’re not a company that’s exclusive mission is to revolutionize the way you act or interact. The Brilliant Innovations Group is a team of people that want to develop things that solve everyday problems for everyday people. We are innovators; we love developing things that will make millions of peoples’ lives easier, and we love executing our mission. I think that’s all I need to say.