LupRocks wasn't built in a day. In fact, we opened the parent company Lup in July of 2002. Oh, the stories we could tell...lucky for all of us, Jessica still has literally thousands of pages of IM sessions saved in her computer. Below is a taste of the early days, when we were working in our pj's out of our respective apartments in Brooklyn, my only form of sustenance was cheese croissants from the delicious Italian bakery on the corner, and our original entrepreneurial spirit was unblemished by the stress of owning a company:
Session Start (AIM - luprocks:michiao): Wed Nov 06 17:02:45 2002
luprocks: What I really can't believe is that we have this company. Did you see our invites? We are so f'ing professional!
michiao: I LOVE it!!!!!
luprocks: Have you seen our letterhead & biz cards. It's really exciting!!!
michiao: Can you f'ing believe it????
michiao: SO EXCITING!
michiao: it's the craziest thing EVER!
michiao: how do WE have a company????
michiao: tee-hee
luprocks: I have no f'ing idea Michelle. I think it's just starting to hit me again. It's like everyday I fall back in love with our company. It's the GREATEST thing I've ever done!!!
luprocks: Thank you!
michiao: NO, thank YOU!
michiao: :-)
michiao: You make me smile!
michiao: NO!
Here's the invitation that we were talking about as well as the schedule of events for the night of our launch party, which had a huge turn-out! See how we got our entire families to work for us that night?? And you know, they'd do it again in a heart beat, I'm sure of it!
Front Door (Greet/Check-in)
Name Time
Jennifer Freed 7-8
Amanda 7:30-8:30
Dave Bosch 8:30-9:30
Raffle Sign Up
Name Time
Lisa Sladkus 7:00-7:30
Darlene Gates 7:30-8:00
Greg & Sara 8:00-8:45
Goodie-Bag Distribution
Name Time
Michelle (Trevanna) 7:30-8:30
Karen Milstein 8:30-9:30
Ann Johnson 9:30-10
Goodie-Bag “Running”
Name Time
Josh 7:30-8:00
Mike Orman 8:00-8:30
Jay Milstein 8:30-9:00