![]() Later that evening, an additional registration came in – that made 22. I shared this with my wife, and we just prayed and gave thanks to God, who really had answered our prayers – we knew now that this was the thing to do. I am embarrassed to admit, at this point, being a technical person, I mentally noted that 21 was not 20 – I had asked for 20. I checked the fax machine, there was an order for 10! I couldn’t wait to log on and found additional registrations – a total of 21!!! I got home later that day and checked the mail – No registrations! I was disappointed. I was really excited that day, I called home a couple of times to see how the registrations were going – it was quiet! Needless to say, I checked my e-mail looking for registrations, and I believe I had three in the morning – a good start. This was between God and me, and I would share it with my wife at the end of the day. The next day came, but I didn’t mention this to my wife. I also prayed for forgiveness if I was wrong to ask – I don’t like to try and make deals with God but really wanted his confirmation. As soon as I said this, I was excited, I felt sure it was going to happen. This was a good day, and of course was an encouragement to us – But will it stop – is one product enough? This was tough, I didn’t have time to generate more products.Īs I went to bed that night, I was praying about the situation, and I just felt like saying to God “If you give me 20 registrations tomorrow I will KNOW that I should quit my full time job, that it is your will”. ![]() On March 18th 1996, we had received 11 “registrations'” for UltraEdit. We prayed about this, and we felt more and more as time progressed that we should make a change – surely God had not blessed our efforts with the editor for us just to say it’s too much, but dare we take the step and make it our full time occupation? In early 1996 we were convinced that a change was necessary, but what? I had a good job, good salary, good benefits and generally I was happy with my job – but I had always wanted to go into business on my own. I was working two full time jobs, one of them being the work with the editor. As I developed this, I received more and more interest and recognition as an editor of choice over the next year or so, and it became clear that something had to change. ![]() My wife and I were surprised and thankful.Īs time went on I continued to develop this editor based on user requests, putting literally thousands of hours of work into it – God has truly blessed us, but it is not just handed to us on a plate: we should be good stewards of our time and work hard. I just thanked God, not at this point for the monetary gain, but the satisfaction and encouragement it gave me. It seemed amazing in such a short time that this editor was progressing quite well. I was stunned when after just one month a large company was interested in 60 copies, and after some changes did purchase the 60 copies. I won’t bore you here with all the details, but I uploaded the software to CompuServe (this was around April 15th 1994), a very large online computer network and started to receive interest almost immediately. I would get a lot of people wanting changes and sending messages, and only a few people would register is what he advised – I did as I often do in a case like this, I thanked him for his advice and decided I was going to continue and pursue it as planned. Well, his advice was not to bother trying. So, I decided to consult a friend and colleague about this idea – he was a lot more knowledgeable about this at the time, and more aware of the electronic distribution channels. ![]()
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