So today is March 1st – and for me it is starting off as a lion. A smaller post today, as the past month has been a whirlwind of activities, meetings and announcements. Today the xLerate I started up four years ago with a small amount of savings and a dream is now being put out to pasture, as we have merged with the company Force By Design, based out of San Francisco. Force By Design was started by a good friend of mine (and now colleague) Micaiah Filkins around the same time as xLerate. They have made one hell of a splash, becoming a well known and respected partner in the Salesforce community, and highly respected for their work efforts.
This is a good thing all around me thinks. It’s a win for Force By Design, expanding from their offices in San Francisco and Lansing, Michigan to an highly undiscovered market – Canada. It’s a win for clients of xLerate – not much really changes for them, except maybe for seeing my face a little less in the coming months, and seeing other resources. And it’s a win for me personally – it allows me to move my career to the next step. And I still keep and use my entrepreneurial spirit and drive in tact; it may not be my own baby that I watched grow up, more like the couple that my baby grew into.
But, more soon – it’s a busy week! Oh…my new title is “Managing Director – Canadian Operations”. More to come in the near future….