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EDIT: Check out the response to waterside81's comment above. What would you like to know? The post is quite frankly too long already, but I figured folks woul

by cgshaw 16y ago

EDIT: Check out the response to waterside81's comment above. What would you like to know? The post is quite frankly too long already, but I figured folks would want a decent amount of information. Like I said, Ask ?'s. Thanks for your comment.

stanleydrew 16y ago
I mean no offense, but this line stands out: "I’m looking for an awesome person (people) interested in social, dynamic curation, mobile, near-field communication, qr codes, augmented reality, search, rich-media, minimalist design, gaming, and world domination." That's the kind of buzzword-ridden sentence that scares me and is not clear at all. But your willingness to answer questions and start a conversation is admirable. I will start another top-level thread with some questions for you.
- cgshaw 16y ago
  Answered similar comment from other authors above. Thanks. Check out responses to lkrubner and a_b_c_7.
- kls 16y ago
  When I read it, I did not pay too much attention to the fact that the idea was not clear, I think people matter more and for me personally if it had peaked my interest I would still have inquired as to what his ideas where. I guess like a lot of people, I reason from my perspective and if I have an idea that I am interested in, I could write a novel on it. I would assume if people are interested that we could get into the gory details after the initial contact. And I would be afraid of information overloading my initial letter. I still think it was a great post, because I think it was one of the few that I have ever seen where the poster said here is what I am going to do and here is what I have to offer. Most as I said act as if, I have done all the hard work coming up with this idea now I just need someone to build it.
  - cgshaw 16y ago
    thanks kls. That was my exact thinking when I posted. Most of the people I interact respond to enthusiasm and bullishness. Of course that works much better in person. It's clear that in this sort of forum with really bright and capable people that reads as naivety. That's ok, learn something new every day. I'm going to try to get in front of some local engineers and see what I can do. It just takes one who's crazy enough and smart enough to get started.
    - kls 16y ago
      Yeah, I have been around enterprise sales guys for too long for buzz words to bother me, I know it's the lingo of sales in the enterprise space, so I have a filter for it, where some have a radar for it. I read right past that and really liked that you said what you where going to do (as far as role). This gets omitted on a good deal of posts like this and worse yet there are a good deal that act like "hey I had the idea, what more do you want". I wish you the best and hope you do well. I part of a start-up back in 97 that tried to do an amateur sports social network / handicap matchup / scorecard site. We where in way too early and burned out in flames. The market is probably far more ready for it than it was in 97. While you idea is not the same, I do see some overlap in what we did.

by cgshaw 16y ago

stanleydrew 16y ago

I mean no offense, but this line stands out: "I’m looking for an awesome person (people) interested in social, dynamic curation, mobile, near-field communication, qr codes, augmented reality, search, rich-media, minimalist design, gaming, and world domination." That's the kind of buzzword-ridden sentence that scares me and is not clear at all. But your willingness to answer questions and start a conversation is admirable. I will start another top-level thread with some questions for you.

cgshaw 16y ago
Answered similar comment from other authors above. Thanks. Check out responses to lkrubner and a_b_c_7.
kls 16y ago
When I read it, I did not pay too much attention to the fact that the idea was not clear, I think people matter more and for me personally if it had peaked my interest I would still have inquired as to what his ideas where. I guess like a lot of people, I reason from my perspective and if I have an idea that I am interested in, I could write a novel on it. I would assume if people are interested that we could get into the gory details after the initial contact. And I would be afraid of information overloading my initial letter. I still think it was a great post, because I think it was one of the few that I have ever seen where the poster said here is what I am going to do and here is what I have to offer. Most as I said act as if, I have done all the hard work coming up with this idea now I just need someone to build it.
- cgshaw 16y ago
  thanks kls. That was my exact thinking when I posted. Most of the people I interact respond to enthusiasm and bullishness. Of course that works much better in person. It's clear that in this sort of forum with really bright and capable people that reads as naivety. That's ok, learn something new every day. I'm going to try to get in front of some local engineers and see what I can do. It just takes one who's crazy enough and smart enough to get started.
  - kls 16y ago
    Yeah, I have been around enterprise sales guys for too long for buzz words to bother me, I know it's the lingo of sales in the enterprise space, so I have a filter for it, where some have a radar for it. I read right past that and really liked that you said what you where going to do (as far as role). This gets omitted on a good deal of posts like this and worse yet there are a good deal that act like "hey I had the idea, what more do you want". I wish you the best and hope you do well. I part of a start-up back in 97 that tried to do an amateur sports social network / handicap matchup / scorecard site. We where in way too early and burned out in flames. The market is probably far more ready for it than it was in 97. While you idea is not the same, I do see some overlap in what we did.