ß | February 2025 Recap
Here’s a quick run down of some of the things we’ve been up to in February, and a peek ahead to March.
🥇 Firsts
Artist store launched: Joshua Barber Fine Art + first art sales = first revenue for Eszett!
🪴 Ecosystem
Accepted to the Startup Virginia Idea Factory, Cohort 11
Planned to have our public in-person debut at the AI Ready RVA “Power of Possibility” Expo in Richmond, VA, but the event got rescheduled due to snow ❄️ - we’ll be there on March 4!
Planning to attend SXSW and specifically:
3/6: SX with Sequence hosted by Sequence, a “financial router” aka money movement platform that I’ve written about before on Full Backlog
3/11: Flatstock, because artists
💼 Business Development
Next two artist stores “under construction”
120+ artists identified as “leads” in our CRM
Boilerplate artist licensing & store operations contract completed
🤖 Platform
Posted: Eszett's Q1 Roadmap: From POC through MVP to Version 1.0
“Atelier” Artist Portal - no/low-code platform candidates identified
“Fisher” Sales Tax & VAT Compliance - Store Transactions to GL Code automation schema developed w/ robust GL Code taxonomy
🌬️ Upcoming in March
3/19: Attending rvatech/Data + AI Summit
