| Those of you that know me, know that I don't pretend to make any sense. I still don't get myself. The last few months have been surreal, my network keeps growing and i'm fairly well known in the startup community and I really didn't do so much to get there.
My seed capital group is growing, Sun is sponsoring it and we are launching the Happy Hour Series with The Hatchery & Tri-State Ventures. I'm also looking into throwing a large fancy startup forum sometime in the next few months, exact opposite of my campy informal activities so we'll see.
I'm working with Frumster & Shoes! Application on facebook to help grow, monetize and finance them.
AdSolutia is generating $2,000 a day in revenue but breaking even and causing stress because leads suck and our technology has issues, one of my clients is screwing me etc...so in general its unpleasant. My demos are almost ready so I can start pitching it around and hopefully can raise money. I think I have a decent shot at it, a lot of people are interested. Our AI is pretty sweet. I also just bought an email marketing company with 400k in revenue and a pile of data. Hopefully we can generate some cash off of it in January. That would be pretty sweet.
I'm informally advising probably a dozen startups in random ways and HotUpping is still in development, we have TakesAllTypes in dev and should launch in January and a few other random things working their way out - Davis' app may go somewhere if he gets his act together and relaunching bootstrapper and a pile of startup related sites in the next few months that i think could be fun.
I was thinking of working on financing for startups as a business but i just don't see enough interesting startups that i dont think i can make money from it. Also the whole broker/dealer thing, which i can probably solve. I Still want to get the call center deal done, that would be awesome, been 4-5 months already, that deal would open so many doors if i can take control of a 1500 seat call center company. I can grow the crap out of it.
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