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Re: Wherefore Art Thou, Austin Investors?

bmenell — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:44:05 -0000

I think your premise is slightly flawed. You're stating as fact that these organizations hold the key to some secret list of investors that can only be obtained by some type of subservient behavior. That's like stating the convenience store clerk is the gatekeeper to your Powerball millions, or UT is the gatekeeper that prevents you from getting a great job.

I'm not a member of CTAN, but they seem to be a collection of people who are interested in investing in young companies. And since their members are probably relatively wealthy, it stands to reason they probably don't want to be on a published list. They would get lots of inbound interest, and it would sort of kill the entire premise of organizing in the first place.

I've made many introductions between startups and investors, and it's because the startup has merit, and there is potentially mutual value. And yes, it's in my own self-interest to do that, because I value my business relationships.

Re: Wherefore Art Thou, Austin Investors?

bmenell — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:29:20 -0000

Good point Barrett. This is being discussed on a blog focused on tech startups, but I hear the same issues from people starting all other kinds of businesses too.

Re: Wherefore Art Thou, Austin Investors?

bmenell — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:19:03 -0000

If tech startups provided great returns, then everyone would flock to invest in them.

But they don't. We just love them anyway.

Re: Mumboe Launches

bmenell — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:05:04 -0000

You can see the pitch on vator.tv by going here:
-> http://vator.tv/pitch/show/...

According to @stoweboyd "Sounds like echosign. A secure repository for online docs. Yawn."

I couldn't find any video of the actual presentation.