Have you heard of StartupBus?  Basically it’s a road trip from San Francisco to SXSW where you ride together on a bus with a bunch of other scrappy startup hustlers and build a crazy idea - which you show off when you arrive. 

Right down my alley, so I’m applying.  This is my application: 

Scrappy. Hacker. Hustler.  This is me.

After graduating college in 2008, I decided  “screw getting a job” and went the entrepreneurship route instead.  I didn’t have any money saved up, and I didn’t know any investors, but I did have the overwhelming burn to make it on my own.   I got my Dad to give me a small stipend to live on while I worked around the clock in my apartment to hack together my first iPhone app, Forex On The Go. I managed to release it before a single other Forex app was available for the iPhone, and so it was an instant hit.  But – I needed to do a lot more to stay on top, and to monetize it.  Still working from my living room, I hustled high and low to find top-notch people who could work remote and on commission.  I found them, and today Forex On The Go is still the top Forex application for the iPhone and white labeled by over 30 brokers. 

You would think that would be enough for me, but no.  With the first business off the ground and profitable, I knew if I could stay really scrappy, I could go after my true passion – Music.  And so I did.  Without knowing a single person or having any idea where we would stay, my girlfriend and I packed up and moved across the country to Silicon Valley.  We used our skills we learned before, and again found great offsite people to work with and relied on our pure determination while we worked night, day and weekends out of our apartment to build our new music app LetsListen.

Needless to say, we know how to work in confined spaces and make big stuff happen in very little time.  StartupBus is calling our name, and we’d love to be apart of it. 

Thanks,
Cole Flournoy