Welcome to the first ever Vision Ten & Ten Blog Post!

                  
We are extremely excited to be initiating this online resource for our readers, business partners and customers. Our goals are the following:

1. Get to know us! (www.visiontenandten.com)
2. Know why we are doing this.
3. Track the development progress of our VenWatch Restaurant software solution.

These are NOT our Goals:

1. To perceive that we ever know more than our readers...about anything
2. To have any rhyme or reason behind our posts. (isn't there excitement in variety?!)
3. To have our posts immediately disregarded as spam or plain dumb :(

Vision Ten&Ten was founded by Daniel Lawson and Dominic Balsamo in April, 2014  with the intention of "turning hypothetical solutions into a reality."

What does that really mean? Well, we were tired of dreaming about entrepreneurial successes without having a solid idea to build a business. Sure, we both have had several "light bulb" moments where we had thought that we had discovered the next best thing...(one of my ideas was a toothbrush that already had toothpaste in the handle so that you wouldn't have to always apply...cool, right? ugghh) but we finally realized that those ideas were self generated and hadn't really served any market's actual needs.

Talk about a "light bulb" moment...it was more like getting smacked upside the head with a shovel (View Funny Shovel Video Here). How were we to start a business without truly knowing a market's needs? That is when we were introduced to the practice of "idea extraction." The process of Idea Extraction is simple; find the pain, identify the problems and create a solution. However the execution of idea extraction can be very challenging.

Which Industry should we choose to idea extract?
What questions do we ask to get the answers that we need?
What if I know absolutely nothing about the businesses that we are speaking too?

All legitimate questions/concerns, right? Trust me, there were and continue to be MANY more. But that hasn't stopped us; and in just 3 short months Vision Ten&Ten was born, long term relationships within our industry of choice have been initiated, and the VenWatch software solution is currently in development!! (more on that later)

In the coming weeks, we want you to get to know us; where we come from, our families and our passions. We also want to share with you pearls of information that you may find useful in your businesses. Much like the practice behind idea extraction, we will be interviewing many different business owners on what types of information will be of the highest interest in reading our Blog.

As mentioned in the beginning of the post, VenWatch is a software solution that is specific to the restaurant industry.  For that reason, many of our blog posts pertaining to business "best practices" will be geared toward restaurant owners, managers and employees. 

Please; always enjoy the content, and keep an open door policy toward sharing your thoughts, concerns and "light bulb" moments as you follow along :)

Authored By,

Your Vision Ten&Ten guys; Dom and Dan.