100: Nancy & Chris Desmond of Memory Web

A little about our guests. Nancy enjoys cheering on her boys at baseball games and bike riding to clear her head and think up great new features for Memory Web. She also enjoys the protein boost of swallowing gnats. Chris is a die-hard Chicago Cubs fan, despite the century since a World Series win. He has transferred his love of baseball to Nancy and their 2 boys. Chris also enjoys fly fishing and hopes to take the family fly-fishing in the Amazon someday. A joint album started on memory web by Nancy and her friends is all about raising boys including the pictures of boys dancing around with underwear on their heads. Chris and Nancy look forward 20 years using those pictures to embarrass their sons. Both Chris and Nancy have been entrepreneurs in the past. A little about their business. Memory Web is an online archiving system for digitizing photos and documenting information about the pictures. It is the first service of its kind, allowing people to not only archive photos and add information, but also allows you to own the information you add to your pictures and albums. Chris is crazy organized and his love of curating family history and photos is integral to Memory Web. He is a founder, advisor and a keen photographer. Nancy is the ideas person and also co-founder of Memory. She does the writing, marketing and communications. Chris figured out early in the relationship to defer to the English major. Their 2 boys, ages 10 and 12 are very interested in the business. They both ask great questions and have a great curiosity about Memory Web. One piece of advice (the nutshell version) If you can, bootstrap your business to give you more control over your business vs. investors. Reading Material The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz - http://amzn.to/2aaNsnq Get in Touch with Our Guests http://Memoryweb.me [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-desmond-2253316 https://www.facebook.com/memoryweb.me me