Jeanne and I spent the morning yesterday walking around downtown Seattle, scouting locations for the next Julep.
Finding real estate is like trying to get pregnant. There's only so much you can do to make things happen. The timing of events is less in my full control than I'd like. And you may think you want a boy, or a girl, or a red-head (if you're my in-laws), but really you just want a healthy location (1800ish square foot with frontage onto a high traffic street).
Dear guests, where do you think the next Julep should be?
And if you know of any great locations that are available, or anywhere close to available, please let me know immediately.
In anticipation of finding the perfect location in downtown Seattle or Bellevue, we are hitting the streets doing our second round of fund-raising. Next Wednesday, we present to the Zino Zillionaire forum, where the best non-technology and the best technology investment opportunities will each win a $50,000 investment fund.
I wouldn't have characterized us as "non tech" since we have on-line scheduling, and four computers in the parlor that help keep us at the cutting edge of operations. And I'm not sure what's worse - "non tech" or "low tech", which is how we were characterized at the last investor forum.
In any event, we only have 5 minutes to make our presentation. It's like speed-dating, or the first episode of The Bachelor.
Please keep your fingers crossed for us on Wednesday that we get the rose.
