Life

I have been thinking about this for almost a week what my first blog post should be. I suppose it should be about myself. My name is Jeremy and I am 23 years old, born in July 1983. My parents Ed and Kathy are wonderful and my girlfriend Stacy continues to be an incredible joy and amazing companion in life. We have done so much together and had so many fantastic experiences so far in our 7 years together. We have a beautiful little cat that is soft like cashmere and sweet like cotton candy.

My life started out on the water; hopefully it ends on the water. So far to date the story goes something like this. I grew up for years on the F/V Steadfast a 34 foot wooden boat, probably a troller or gillnetter originally, then my parents bought the F/V Ocean Gold from a man named Pete. I learned to be a good responsible son, crew, and captain on board the Ocean Gold and when I turned 13 I had a permit transferred into my name, assumed a rather substantial loan and started fishing on my own. Shortly starting a business as well.

This same winter I began a two year stint as a ski instructor at Eaglecrest our local ski area where I was also a member of the PSIA. These years were incredible from when I was old enough to walk until I was 19 I spent every summer on the water, living a dream. Fishing trout with spinning rods, fly fishing, halibut fishing, hunting, shooting guns, jetboating, rowing, exploring rocks, caves, caverns, cracks, rock picks were a part of my life, sluice boxes, biking, rollerblading, growing, it was really incredible. People older then me always reminded me that my life day-to-day was their lifelong dream.

Sometime in 1997, I believe my 8th grade year in school, I started a sole-proprietorship that I called, Jeremy’s Web Design which later became Glacier Web Design then transformed into Glacier Computer Services and finally today 5 years after graduating High School, 70+ credits in my college life, and after a self-discovery during an 80 day roadtrip through 30 states that you can see pictures from on my Flickr. As a result of the success of Glacier Computer Services I invited a partner, Tyler Gress, to join me and we incorporated as Hansen Gress Corporation.

Hansen Gress Corporation is our brainchild, it is the culmination of my life efforts and recently Stacy and Tyler have made vast contributions to its success. We named the company Hansen Gress because we wanted the name to be a reminder of what the two of us stand for, our ethics, our integrity and our passion for business, and the businesses owned by people all around us. During 2006 I was named a member of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors after I showed much interest in supporting and understanding the future of Juneau’s economy. I felt that I was a great candidate for promoting the development of future generations and making sure that they have economic stability and an economically sound and safe city to enjoy, spend and begin building roots within the community.

Stacy and I have had a wonderful time in Juneau, spending most of our lives here, but we have come to a point in our lives where we have some business that we need to tend to in other places. We have been realizing that there are things that we need to confirm personally. We are looking to head south into the states, probably California and more specifically Silicon Valley to find out several things about who we are personally and find venture capitalists to invest in Hansen Gress. It is also going to be a wonderful experience to be in proximately of several of my very good friends.

As I write this entry I began to ask the question to myself, “Why do we blog?” So I looked it up on Yahoo! and found several great responses, this one stuck out, a quote by Herman Melville,

“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by athousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, ouractions run as causes and return to us as results.”

I, myself, look forward to any comments you may have or feel free to email me.