A lot of my life seems to revolve around playing money middleman; waiting for investor dollars to come in for a project so I can turn around and send those dollars back out the door.

And the problem is, while Cyan and everything it does is hugely, consumingly important to me, it’s absolutely not so to our angel and institutional investors. So, even when they want to move ahead, even once they’re fully committed, it inevitably takes weeks and weeks and months to drag through trading documents and sending wire information and refreshing and refreshing and refreshing our bank’s web site to see if the funds have hit.

In the meantime, then, I’m forced to tell the people waiting on the other end, ‘any day now,’ and ‘really, any day,’ while I wait and they wait and we all wait together and they start to hate my guts for how long this is all taking even though I swear to god I’m just the middleman and none of this is my fault.