Had a good chat with Zoltan and Domonkos. They liked the concept but can’t volunteer any effort quite yet. We’re still too early stage to begin a business relationship with the Ensemble team (they’re working hard on finding revenue now). Zoltan said after we have a working mockup (baseline), that they’d be more than happy to revisit where we are at.
Updates from August, 2009
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Ryan any ideas on how we can clean up the landing page for victusmedia.com? It was a quick and dirty job to help gather early user feedback, with the assumption being that we’ll make it smoother and more user friendly over time. Maybe it’s time to iterate on this and actively get folks trying it out and leaving comments?
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Heard back from Ensemble (Netflix winning team), I forwarded the email to you folks. What’s a good time for us to chat with them? Should we talk beforehand to get a solid/unified view of the problem we’re trying to solve?
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Good background information from Fred Wilson on “The Ideal First Round Term Sheet”, he refers to a post by Chris Dixon (cofounder of Hunch), who I candidly asked (on Chris’ blog) if he’d consider a board member position for a would be venture. Fred’s post: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/08/the-ideal-first-round-term-sheet.html
Of note, Fred Wilson mentioned Delicious had 100k users per month and wasn’t officially formed into a business structure when Union Squares invested in them. I think getting a functional tool & site, and building a user base would go a long way to helping us build investor confidence.
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Pretty sick database hookup: http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql all apache 2.0 licensed for our reusing goodness
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Left a comment on Jason Cronkhite’s blog
I got the chance to read up on some pretty radical social business concepts (Simon linked his ideas). But more than the concept of sustainable community driven businesses, are the people involved it it’s architecture. I trust that you’ll navigate a direction for Argo Ventures that leverages our most powerful assets towards defining a challenge, and collaborating on a solution.
While many ideas are bouncing around within the friendfeed space, there are few plans of action. What can we do to differentiate our efforts and begin building milestones? Is a corporate framework a good start? That’s where myself, Vladimir Vukicevic, Brian Hendrickson, and Ryan Leland are headed with the contextual advertising and personalized search model.By focusing on short term achievable goals we can increase the probability of successful growth.
I’d like to move quickly past the “hot air” phase. Who’s with me?
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Heyo just a heads up Brian was on Bad Hair Day (Dave Winer’s talk web radio). Cool hearing you in person Brian. Look forward to chatting soon. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Bad-Hair-Day/2009/08/14/Bad-Hair-Day-8
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It’s been a slow project week. But last we left off Brian suggested a php/web2py (python HTML framework?)
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Works been busy this week, hopefully next week I can get a little more working time in at night. Been burnt out in the evenings this week.
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Brian just saw you called into a Dave Winer chat, the potential is there for a real public crowd sourced business. Looks like there’s some open directions, you know from my blog posts I’m all over this idea. Do we (any startups interested in a similar sustainable framework) need a formalized game plan of sorts to get public investment at such an early stage?