investor update: A short update on the situation with ITL. Apparently ITL has stopped funding all of their startup investments, speculation is that ITL's damaged reputation has prevented them from being able to raise any capital at all.

time is money: still waiting for word on the bank loan, but it looks like friends and family may have come through to buy us another week. I know this site is a little thin on details, but that is changing today as we put a web summary online.

dotpublishing - looking forward: We had a meeting at BOI today and discussed the revisions to our plan some. We have a good, solid plan in place that lets us bring our first person interactive system online in just under a year for just about 18 million dollars. While this is more money than some of our recent plans we continue to agree with our advisors that we need to cut our time to market and that costs more money.

Currently, our immediate concern is a $20,000 operating cost we have for the next 6 weeks. We have a number of sources to secure a $60,000 bridge in that time that will carry us through the process of securing primary capital.

So, where do you find $20,000 when you're investor packs it in suddenly? Friends and Family are pretty much tapped out... and SBA loans take 90-120 days to come through. Some of the founders spent today filling out loan forms at their banks hoping we can just put the money in ourselves.

During the next 3 weeks we will be finishing up our demonstration/trailer CD-ROM for potential investors, and it is looking exceptionally impressive so we are looking forward to having a chance to show it off. Some of it will be available on the company website and linked here.

dotpublishing - a big hello world: We picked up some publicity yestarday that helped us a bit, and we appreciate everyone who took the time to give us feedback. We seem to have a some confusion about what it is dotPublishing actually does ... an inevitable one since we do not have full information currently available. Here is a response to some of that confustion on one of the forums discussing us. Please take a second to read it. Thank you and check back soon for more information.

"Actually, your looking at some of the sites we are involved in currently, and I do understand how it can be confusing, but I want to be very clear on this.... None of the projects we have planned currently will feature adult content. In fact, the current project is science fiction based :) We do currently have a few adult sites in our portfilio - and the two of the girls on our team run a "lifecam" webcam site (no sex involved, though they do some nudity), but that is more of an artifact of our past - not a vision for the future. This company "grew up" in the adult website biz, it's where we got our start in design, and that is the place I learned the most about programming software to run extremely high traffic sites. Also, we learned a lot about how to make money on the web there (content). In a world where amazon is losing buckets of cash I know adult sites netting more than $ 1/4 million a day. So, our company does have a past that wends through the more steamy side of the net, that is not our future, nor is it the projects we need money for. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to check it out at all :)"

dotpublishing - another option: Obviously, we have been looking for other sources of funding... and as we mentioned before the folks over at BOI seem to be good people. We spoke with them again on Friday and are going to be going back to see them early next week. We are spending Sunday revising our plan to include a more aggressive entry into the marketplace so we will have that to show them.

dotpublishing - big happenings: As we may have mentioned, yesterday was a stockholders meeting for ITL, a company we have been working with for funding. While we have no official word on the results of that meeting yet some of our sources indicate that there was a shake up in the top management. It also seems that there might be closure of the Utah office for that firm.

This doesn't seem to be good for our prospects of them being able to complete their investment! Hopefully the official word will be more optimist.

dotpublishing - a little catch up news: On Wed, the 21st we met with a great group of people here in NJ at the Business Owners Institute in Bridgewater. They have a good organization from what we have seen so far and it was a pleasure to speak with them. As a result of those conversations we are making some good alterations to the plan.

One of the things BOI does is help companies match up with investors and they have a good grasp of the Internet side of things. Of course, there is a percentage fee if they match us up with the money we need but it is well in line with the other organizations we have heard about and if they find us the money we need they are welcome to their chunk of it.

On a side note, unless I am far off my mark this article was written by the Director of BOI. The don't have a website yet, and I am not sure if they want me to give out their phone number so if you want to get their information we'll be happy to oblige, just contact us.

dotpublishing - off to an interesting start: At 11am CST there will be a stockholders meeting of ITL in Utah. We are hoping that they will be able to resolve the problems they have been having and possibly we can find a working relationship together.

just like the good old days: Several people have had questions about what thirty-days.com looked like when we first opened it. Fortunately, we kept a copy of that site we call "classic thirty-days.com". You can see it here and follow the saga from the very beginning.

thirty-days.com goes live again: After more than five months off, we are back and more dedicated than ever to making this site into what it needs to be. Thirty Days is all about following startup companies through their most crucial times and we will be featuring different companies when possible.

We want to be able to provide an open, honest and frank look at what is happening with us so that maybe someone else can learn from our experiences and mistakes the way we have learned from those of others. If you can think of any way we can make this site more useful for you, the entrepreneur or investor let us know!