9 days ago, i was contacted through this blog by someone who liked the blog, liked the concept behind BeerChief and who also expressed an interest in investing and partnering up on BeerChief.
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I’ve said before, this summer is now or never for BeerChief – i’m determined to finish it and get it to the stage where I am happy with it. After a bit of thought i decided i’d listen to any offers and open up to the idea of more partners. I’d be an idiot to turn down investment and an extra pair of hands at this moment in time, especially when i’ve been banging on recently about how great partnerships are.
So a few days ago i talked on the phone for about an hour with… lets call him ‘mr x’ for now and we agreed to hook up today face to face. I believe our 3 hour conversation today went well 
Nothing has been agreed, nothing has been signed and because BeerChief is already a 2 man team, it’s a bit more tricky to make decisions as they have to be joint decisions.
But i’m confident we can strike a deal and turn BeerChief in to a 3 man team. More contacts, more cash, more ideas… it can only be a good thing for BeerChief even if my own share will be diluted further.
So the future is looking good for BeerChief. It should be all systems go after we launch ‘version 3′ late this summer and it will be very interesting to see how it takes off as we’ve never promoted it really. All i’ve done is blogged about it and created the odd social networking profile – i haven’t blitzed the web at all to my potential and i haven’t even touched on offline promotion.
However, i can’t (or won’t) promote a half finished site and that is what BeerChief is at the minute. It needs work, it needs money, it needs more hands on deck and hopefully it’ll get all of that this summer and re-launch with bang.
Had it not been for this blog though, there would have been no contact, no meetings, no discussion. Blogs open up doors and they help establish and reinforce real world connections. This is a perfect example of that and i’m pretty sure it won’t be the last either.
