Lee's CEO blog

This week following Thanksgiving I am with my family at our cabin in Pennsylvania, which was built by my Great-Grandfather. It was initially a 12'X18' room with no heat or water. Over the years it has been improved upon until it now has electricity, a living room, full bathroom, a bedroom with 9 bunks, a full kitchen, a gas furnace, telephone service and an ADT alarm system. But today is truely historic as it is the first time that the internet was plugged into the cabin. I am using my cell phone as a modem to make this post, and when I plugged my laptop power cord, the cabin essentially had internet service installed. It boggles the mind to think of the technological advancement in 4 generations, but what is cause for greater pause is that I don't know how to install the gas furnace, kitchen, or bathroom. That may be cause for reassessing priorities.

I will be working here throughout the week until I return home. Don't think I forgot those convention pictures, they are coming.

Labels: vacation

I am at the 4th Annual Old School Tattoo Convention in St Louis, MO. I drove up from Nashville today and spent the afternoon polling parlor owners and artists on their opinions of BioSketch. Tattooing starts tomorrow, and I'll get to see some of the best and brightest at work. The brightest point of my night was meeting Ryan and Brooke from Primal Urge Tattoos. They were very keen on the BioSketch concept and gave me lots of great leads for more artists to contact.

I will try to get a picture of Lyle Tuttle on Saturday, and will post all photos on http://blog.biosketch.net when I get home Sunday.

Tomorrow will be one of the most exicting days of the my tenure at BioSketch! I wonder if I'll get inked myself? Stay tuned...

Labels: tattoo convention

BioSketch is putting the finishing touches on its first direct outreach to parlor owner and tattoo artists regarding the DNAtattoo.net product. It has been a great experience to write the ad copy, design the art work, and work with the printer. I will post a draft on the MySpace BioBlog (readable at blog.biosketch.net) when I get the hardcopy draft back for approval from the printer.

A customer has generously provided us a picture of a DNA tattoo:

View the picture here...

We had a great time working with the customer to make sure they had a wonderful experience. I personally think that tattoo looks great, and I hope you all will also.

It is a beautiful experience to have something that you envisioned be so embraced by another person, and we look forward to continuing to spread our vision of a more beautiful humanity.

Labels: dna tattoo

I have been thinking recently about what it means to be free in the US in 2008. I know that there have been immeasurable sacrifices made over the years so that we can have a chance to be free, but what does that mean exactly? If it means the chance to make choices that define one's own fate, then I think that entrepreneurs experience a very particular kind of freedom.

When I think about the BioSketch product line, it is hard to imagine anything with more individualistic stylings. One of the things that first drew me towards tattoos was the chance to be unique. But to live in a free society must mean more than the sum of our seperate decisions. There must be decisions that we make together that direct our combined fates that join us together as a free people.

To honor that tradition, I will be spending some time making available new products that bring together the uniquness of individual genetic structures into a new, group directed creation. The products have been in development for some time and you should hear more about them soon.

Labels: Reflections, Thoughts

I think one of my favorite things about working on BioSketch is the chance to try new things. Not all of them work (most of them don't), but as long as we can dream it we can do it.

Things are really picking up and soon and Matt and I will be busier than ever so expect to hear a lot more from us on the blogs.

Motto for all young CEOs: Stay loose...

Since last year, BioSketch.net has launched along with dnatattoo.net. I will be putting DnaPicture, DnaJewelry, and BodyArtConvention online soon as well. BioSketch made its first sale and got its first satisfied customer.