But What If (Part 2)...

 So let's say that J is right. Let's say we suddenly are getting all kinds of leads, are closing them, and holding on to the clients we close. We would go pretty darn quick from having our small staff of 8 being underutilized to their being used to the max. We could double the clients and revenue we're doing now with our existing resources and we'd be more than breakeven, but if we continue growing beyond that it will require a bunch of additional resources such as:

• More space...and better space!
  

• More computers

• A more sophisticated recruitment program

• A training staff (when we thought we'd grow incrementally, we assumed our existing people would train. they won't have time to because they will be too busy working. Thank goodness I've already been investing into training programs)

• A more sophisticated onboarding process

• More robust management and quality control systems

 And that's just the business stuff for starters. Then we get into the social impact stuff to aid our women in truly transforming their lives. 

• A housing unit so we get the program starters out of the slums they are living in when they join us

• A transportation capability so our people don't spend 2 to 3 hours commuting each way!

• A lending capability so we can front part of the money our new people need to get an apartment (one has to pay a year's rent in advance to get an apartment)

• A regular programs of trauma counseling because there is not a one of our participants who hasn't gone through significant trauma

• Following through on our promise to create a participant owned business
  

•  Building a succession management team so the project is not dependent on de-I
  

All this implies money...a lot of money. But there is a big difference between where we were a couple of years ago and now. Then we were just a wild idea, a very interesting idea for sure, but just an idea. Now we are building a track record. Feedback that I'm getting from people who have worked in the social impact investing space tell me that there aren't that many projects out there that have even achieved as much as we have. So maybe it is time to go for broke and search for serious money? 

That's what I am thinking. And that's what I am working on. Let the Ecstasy / Terror roller coaster roll on!