Goodbye Schmooz
August 11th 2016 is the date when I heard back from McDowell Mountain Music Festival that they didn’t pick Schmooz as their mobile app for…
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August 11th 2016 is the date when I heard back from McDowell Mountain Music Festival that they didn’t pick Schmooz as their mobile app for the event. A week before then, I was dressed up in a WESPAC board room pitching the best pitch I had ever given.
When I got this email, I was crushed. This was the closest we tasted to a big time deal. We were one “ye…