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How VC's Decide to Fund
Apr 15th
Evan Carmichael has revealed how his firm decides if they want to fund a company.
Getting Business Financing
Apr 7th
Does anyone know of any sites (specifically communities) with information on securing financing and such? Obviously I’m not asking for any particular reason, right? If anyone has experience in this area, I’d love to chat as well.
Met With iUpload
Apr 6th
I spent a chunk of the day yesterday with Robin and Dave from iUpload.
There are times in life where you meet people, and there’s a nearly immediate “click”. It happened with Will Pate. It happened with Lee. It happened with Neville. It happened with Stowe. It happened with Renee.
And now it’s happened with Dave and Robin (Dave calls him “Rob”, which I can’t do, for whatever reason).
Most of what we talked about isn’t bloggable (I kept saying stupid things, and then telling them they couldn’t blog it… like when I was 12/13 years old I took ballet/jazz/tap lessons for a couple of years).
They have a cool product. Really cool. I’m not sure if they have a “10 second elevator pitch”. I’m not sure I could figure one out for what they do right now. Maybe it’d be easier for me if I knew where one product finished and another started.
They’ve both been in the industry for a while. They have a schwack of clients, but more than anything, they’s good people. And I love good people. I love them so much I left my headset at their office. It’s kind of like when a girl kicks you in the groin and accidentally leaves her shoe there, so she can come back later and claim it.
Same kind of thing really.
Without the shoe ;-)
Looking for Great Quotes
Mar 21st
We’re just putting together the text to go into the Fall catalog that McGraw-Hill sends to stores, and we’re looking for a really choice quote. Hoping someone here has seen one.
We’re looking for a quote from a company everyone knows, preferrably from a recognizable figure (Bill Gates, for example) which says something attention getting like “”if you don’t have a blog you’re behind the times”.
Anyone have anything like this handy?
Update: These are blogging-related quotes, for my book.
InformIT Article: Blogging: Can It Be Useful for Your Business?
Mar 21st
I recently wrote an article for InformIT on blogging for businesses.
The article is now live here and is designed as a simple primer for business and tech people who want to know more about “this blogging thing”.
Feedback welcome.