Archive for the ‘business’ Category
2010 -
03.15
Tags: adviser, CEO, fate, fired, help, nut
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I’m waking up to how much help I need and how little experience I have. I’m going through a very difficult time personally right now and it’s showing me all my errors in crystal clarity. I have to ask for help, but I don’t know who to ask. My best friend keeps giving me clues, and I try to reach out, but I need to work at it harder. Stubbornness is going out the window, along with my arrogance, and other stopping-me qualities. I am a nut, I am in love, my dream is what I am living, and it’s turning into a fun story. To kick it up a notch I just fired myself from the position of CEO and put myself in my place, as Founder / Product Designer. I’ll remain acting CEO, until I partner with my replacement. 
What I need to do is work my prezi and find that first follower/partner, advisers, money, and lots more fans. Check out the facebook page or follow us on twitter links to the right under comunicate me.
Thanks for reading!
2010 -
03.04
Tags: business, kingdom, marketing, pitch, seminars
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Over the last two days I attended two seminars at the local technology park. One was on product positioning and marketing and the other was on intellectual property and business structure. Both were useful and it was good to get out and meet some local entrepreneurs. Thanks to Gowlings and VIATec for hosting!
Here is our current positioning statement:
The QuestionCollector is a sociopolitical game of debate, for Internet users who want to create peace with words instead of weapons. It provides a fun and neutral architecture for questioning everything. Unlike current social games the QuestionCollector is fun AND useful to your world.
Read on for the draft text of my media pitch and let me know what you think of it or my positioning statement.
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2010 -
02.26
Tags: dancing, marketing, purple, video
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Today I advanced my marketing strategy by arranging to make my first video. On Sunday, weather permitting, I’ll be in downtown Victoria dancing with my friend filming me. It should be quite comical for people watching, because I’ll be the only one who can hear the music, via my headphones. (more…)
2010 -
02.04
Tags: ego, failure, pitch
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Today I gave my first pitch to a panel of local business people, who screen pitches for a local angel investor network. I prepared my 12 slide 10 minute presentation up to the day before. It wasn’t glitzy, but I thought it presented my business case at the conceptual level. I had no expectation of succeeding out of the gate, but I had a hope that I would get some solid advice on what to do next. I ended up getting most of my advice from myself, in hindsight. I definitely got a good dose of external advice, as well. Even if it came with some laughter at my expense. Lucky for me being laughed at is something I’m good at receiving and it actually fuels me more than stops me.
I had sent in a business opportunity document, that they used to brief themselves. I wasn’t thinking clearly when I filled that out, and had sent in some answers that could easily be considered a joke. This was correctly interpreted as ego, and at least one of the panel had been looking forward to meeting it. I showed up with my ego in check, already expecting to be a bit of a face plant. The advice I got about “showing ego to investors is: they will slam the door in your face”. They laughed about it, and so did I. I’m very aware of my ego and have plans to put it to good use, but I need to be more strategic. I have some taming left to do. Part of my strategy for working on this is publicizing my failures, I hope you enjoy this one as much as I did.
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2010 -
01.25
Tags: design, product, questions, solution
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I’ve been a little over concentrated on drafting designs, and not publishing enough. I’ve also had a request for clarity on what my service will be. I serve free speech, collaboration, and peace. If you care, believe, or think about anything that would be considered subjective, philosophical, and/or political, you are my customer. I am designing the framework to store and/or publish your opinions, as well as interact with other users. The framework will be a social game where users do all the work of creating and managing which opinions rise to the top and which slink away rejected. (more…)
2009 -
11.27
Tags: adviser, business, help, passion
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The following are a few questions I would expect a prospective adviser would want to know the answers to. If you have additional questions, please send me a note or leave a comment.
What is GAIA?
GAIA is an acronym for the name of my company: Golden Age Information Architects. It is my personal brand. I have a logo in the works and our first product, brand pending, is in design dock. It is waiting for me to recruit the correct group of assistance. Then I will begin full scale development. I’ve begun to publicize my vision and am currently enjoying the hard work of drafting my business model, estimating initial costs, and learning how to write succinctly. I should probably get someone to do more of this stuff for me. Then I could spend more time building my designs. I can not wait to sit down with my first team of developers, in our first office.
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2009 -
11.22
Tags: business, peace, problem, product, questions, solution, speech
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This is an updated version of a speech I gave on Dec 2, 2009 at Victoria Beaver Toastmasters. The scene is a cocktail party. I’ve started talking with a group of people and then the inevitable question comes up:
“So what do you do Scott?”
I’m an entrepreneur.
“Oh really, well what are you working on?”
It’s an advanced online forum for citizens to engage in political debate and network worldwide. Think of it as a personal soapbox, but with a focus on empowering people.
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2009 -
11.16
Tags: advisers, angel investor, business, CEO, collective intelligence, high performance teams, venture capital, wordcamp
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1) I got an interesting email response today from the CEO of Answers.com in response to a question I sent to their website weeks ago. I was impressed that my impetuous email actually landed on his screen, let alone that he responded. I remember sending messages direct to the CEO at CGI, where I was working, and getting no response. I want to say thanks to Bob for taking the time to get back to me and I hope I can be as attentive to my future customers, employees, and investors as he demonstrated today.
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2009 -
11.07
Tags: business, funny, progress
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This is my first domain name. It came about from a ridiculously bad acronym that I forced to fit GAIA, which I really like for some reason. It was a terrible mouthful, and to tell you the truth, big time crapola. I’ve since done some work and it has created something I both understand and matches my drift better. Of course, typing ‘G dash A dash I dash A.org’ is still a pain in the right pinky, but who really types things in anymore when it’s all about linking. Logo and business cards are in progress.
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2009 -
11.02
Tags: business, investor
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Of a blog, yes. But of the story no.
Ideas have been sprouting in my head for years. I started to pay attention when they began to click together like puzzle pieces. Since then database designs have formed. Marketing plans have formed. Artistic branding requirements are forming. I’ve never been so excited in my life. I’ve enlisted a friend to help me build the prototype. Now I’m working on naming, branding, and figuring out the best timing for me to incorporate, so that I don’t violate the terms for collecting employment insurance and I maximize the tax advantages.
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