I had a wonderful meeting at E27 last week, it was interesting to get to know the other startup founders such as Uzyn and MingYou. And it is comforting to know that there is a common trait out of the four startups presenting that day, i.e. the three of us started alone.

Uzyn developed Ping.sg himself, still a student and freelancing between lessons. MingYou started BlurbMe.com alone, was an investment banker, hired programmers to build his site. And Pluit as you know is a one-man show.

To start a business is hard, and to do it alone just make it so much harder. There are just so many things to do; other than the real work, you still have to do sales, close deals, do marketing, administrative tasks, and have to keep learning to stay ahead.

So not only you got to discipline yourself, you also have to find creative ways each day to be more effective and efficient. For myself, simple thing like meeting client at 5:00 pm and near my place helps. It saves me a lot of time, and it does not interrupt my productive working hours. Having two monitors with at least one that can support 1600 x 1200 resolutions will speed up your work, and trust me you will never want to use one monitor again after that.

But the good news about starting alone is, although it seems like you are alone, you are not. If you are on the right track, there will be people around you to help you whether you realize it or not, your friends, ex-colleagues, people that you never met, even angels.

Things will move, words will spread, deals will come, and you will get to your destination one day, if not closer. For those who have been supporting fellow startups, including myself, and you know it if it is you, I just wanna say, may God bless you.

And last, this is one way how the word spreads, MingYou needs a good PHP developer to bring Blurbme.com even further, if you think are one, do contact him here.