Today is the first day of a new chapter in my life.
After 4 years (World cup to World cup 
) since starting NuConomy, it is time for a new beginning.
It’s hard to say if I can’t believe it’s already been 4 years or if I can’t believe it’s been just 4 years. NuConomy was not just a job. It was a family. It was my life. During this time I had the opportunity to travel to many places and meet so many new and cool people which I hope I’ll stay friend with many of them.
NuConomy was my first startup and I will probably always look back at it as fathers look on their first kid. I had many moments of incredible energy, of adrenaline, happiness as well as frustration and sadness. It was definitely a roller coaster ride which I will never forget.
But most of all it was an amazing educating experience. In the last 4 years as NuConomy CEO I probably did almost every mistake possible. With some of them we managed to get through, on some we were punished hard. I can just hope that I’m smart enough not to repeat at least half of these mistakes in my next venture.
I’m not going to summarize all that happened with NuConomy here in this post. Instead, I’m working on a series of posts that will detail the mistakes we made the things we did right and most importantly the lessons we learned. Hopefully, this information will come by handy for other entrepreneurs who are starting their first venture.
I wanted to say thank you to everyone who made NuConomy possible. Thank you to out investors who believed in us. Thank you to our employees who shared our dream. Thank you to our customers and partners who trusted us. Thank you to our competitors who pushed us tobe better. And thank you to all the great people around the world which became my new friends.
I also want to wish good luck to all the team at Live Person and the rest of the NuConomy team who will keep the lights on without me. I hope to see great things coming out from the combined team and will always be here to help.
As for the future, everything is still open. I’m sure there will be more travelling and more startups in it. For now I need to decide what’s going to be the next adventure and also where in the world do I want to spend the next few years.
I will close this post with one thought from one of my favorite stories, Peter Pan: “We can all get on our bed, open the windows, jump and simply start to fly. All we need is to really believe in that”.
I really enjoyed the post Shahar. I am looking forward to hearing about your mistakes, lessons learned, and successes in future posts.