Zac Bowling’s Mind

A little over 5 weeks ago, I went back to working for Telligent Systems again. I originally worked for them back when they had only 10 people a little over 3 years ago, and now they are in the hundreds. They are growing like crazy and having a lot of success.

My stay there was was sort lived though. I came on to work on a little research product but shortly into it, the project was canceled so I was no longer needed. While I’m upset because it was a little unexpected only a few weeks into it, I have no ill feelings towards Telligent though. I came in on a contract basis and that’s what happens when you play the contract game. It’s businesses and everyone has to stay competitive. They said that the company wants to focus more on their core products and do need me anymore and that’s pretty much it.

What is upsetting is that I under the impression that I would of been there a bit longer then a month though. I had turned down other offers to work with Telligent because I believed that I would me secure there in the current economy which didn’t quite turn out to be the case.

In the mean time, I’m working on my little side project, LeadSwami.com. It’s still alpha but we have over 19 million searchable businesses. Getting geocoding done and a resonable search soon.

Just after the laying off of 3 others at Seesmic last month, my friend Loic le Meur, the founder and CEO of Seesmic, came to the decision today to lay off another 7 people people at Seesmic. With the troubling economy and difficulty for start-ups to gain any capital at the moment, he made the decision in order to make sure that Seesmic survives this economic down turn.

it makes me sad and angry that the economy has gotten this bad that things like this are happening. It’s amazing how close this topic has come to the next presidential election. It will probably be the primary deciding factor in this election. How does this even happen? I have no confidence in our economy’s structure. We need radical change in how we do business here in the states. I believe there are core faults in our system.

Either way, long live Seesmic!