This page has a chronology of my success bootstrapping Kundalini Software into existence. If this process seems labored, that’s because it is. (Creating a startup is hard!) Yet despite everything, the trick is to stick to the philosophy of just keep moving forward. This sentiment is beautifully captured the haiku poem by the Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa: “Climb Mount Fuji, / O snail, / but slowly, slowly.”
During the process of bootstrapping Kundalini Software, I followed/developed what I called my Gonzo Startup Philosophy, which is a “take no prisoner’s”-approach to creating a company through sheer tenacity.
- December, 2012 – Partnership with Dr. Michael Sharp established. Our first product offering, a custom IOS app, becomes available on the Apple App Store. The first revenue for Kundalini Software is received.
- February, 2013 – Kundalini Software initial LLC filing with the State of Ohio.
- January 2016 – Mentor team at KSU Fashion Hack-A-Thon (“Concussion Prevention Helmet“)
- October, 2017 – Begin Co-working @ StartMart, Tower City, Cleveland
- January 2017: Mentor team at KSU Fashion Hackathon x2 (“Moon Flower“)
- July 2018: Begin co-working at People Space, Irvine, California
- July 2018: Orange County Venture Capital Fast Pitch Conference
- 2018: Partnership with Dr. Janice Kreiner, Preferences for Leisure Attributes (PLA) Assessment, University of the Bahamas Grant
- 2019: Begin co-working @ Bounce Innovation Hub, Akron Ohio
- 2019: June 2019: Microsoft TEALS Volunteer Training, initial work at Promise Academy in Cleveland, begin working towards bringing STEM projects into the schools
- 2019: Initial Kundalini Piano Mirror version becomes available for Win64
- 2019: Kundalini Piano becomes available through Google Play
- 2019: Github profile created, first open source contributions released by Kundalini Software back to the community
- Summer 2019: Provisional Patent Application filed for the Kundalini Piano Mirror
- Summer 2019: National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corp Application Submitted
- Kundalini Piano Mirror Acceptance into NSF I-Corp Program
- NSF/Burton D. Morgan Foundation I-Corp funding
- January 2020: No Starch Press Foundation Grant for the Kundalini Piano Platform
- December 2021: Take Kundalini Piano into a school for the first time, Impact Academy, Canton, Ohio
- June 2021, partnership with iCompute Consulting, co-development of the Golang open source data encoding library Schemer
- July 2020, Mentoring of first ICORP Team: OptimalWellness.Health.
- July 2021, Mentoring of second ICORP Team: Tidy Stitch® Thread Organization
- July 2021, Release of Linux Mint GTK3 version of the VanGoghFlow visualization engine
- Jan 2024, Kundalini Piano mirror comes available at the University of Akron’s music lab
- Feb 2024, first successful deployment of an embedded Kundalini Piano Mirror to: Dr. James Wilding, head of Composition and Theory at the University of Akron
- Feb 2024, first printed edition of music specifically written for the Kundalini Piano (“Bach In The Mirror) is available in printed form
- Feb 2024: Kundalini Software begins sponsoring scholarships: “The Nicholas Constantinidis memorial scholarship for piano performance“, “The Kundalini Software scholarship for technological innovation in music education”, “Fae Koelker Memorial Scholarship for Early Childhood Education.”
