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	<title>Step Away From the Fiat &#187; Team Building</title>
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		<title>Four dot coms and a Two Day Interview!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey McLarty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the title suggests, I&#8217;ve got four and a half dot coms (I&#8217;m investing in them all personally, mostly just small bits of time and a little coin)  AND a 2 day interview, kicking off at this place this Thursday.  I&#8217;m so pumped.  It&#8217;s important for me to point out, that the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like the title suggests, I&#8217;ve got four and a half dot coms (I&#8217;m investing in them all personally, mostly just small bits of time and a little coin)  AND a 2 day interview, kicking off at <a href="http://www.marbenrestaurant.com/">this place</a> this Thursday.  I&#8217;m so pumped.  It&#8217;s important for me to point out, that the interview for a day job could crush these plans for these *.coms in a heartbeat.  &#8220;Business Technology Analyst&#8221; &#8211; I will be so happy to get this job.  If the cards don&#8217;t get delt in my favor,  i&#8217;ll keep looking, but I&#8217;m keeping the bar for employers high.</p>
<p>The *.coms are secret, until I launch, because they are works in progress, and may or may not ever see the light of day. Except <a href="http://blog.bluemoat.com">BlueMoat</a> of course.</p>
<p>Here are some clues:</p>
<p>1.  We&#8217;re going to take on the &#8220;review&#8221; market, with a product line that is cheap, where nobody is in the space yet, and in dire need of analytics.  I just joined this great 3 person team.  Ok, it&#8217;s likely to yield ~$10K &#8211; ~20K/ year in revenue for year 1, and year two looks like +$30K, but it&#8217;s a start.  We&#8217;re looking for investors.</p>
<p>2.  After hearing the Facebook guy talk about &#8220;Content&#8221; Ads, I had an idea, and am going to launch a prototype, to see how well it goes, or at least get myself a little of the action.  I&#8217;m dumping $3K &#8211; $4K personally and probably 500 hours into this one (if I don&#8217;t land a great job soon) we&#8217;ll see where it takes me.</p>
<p>3. Currently, media is deemed &#8220;important&#8221; based on what gets eyeballs, and/or votes, from the masses.  But the masses are not smart, that makes media dumb, and creates a dangerous cycle for humanity.  I&#8217;ve got an idea to change that; it&#8217;s real simple, easy to build, cheap, just hard to get off the ground &#8211; because it desperately needs adopters for it to work.  It will only catch on, if it has the support of bloggers. I&#8217;ll need a network of bloggers to help me spam the blog-o-sphere. E-mail me if you want a % of equity, if you&#8217;re blog is in the top 100,000 or has +20K readers. I&#8217;m giving away basis points of equity for various levels of support from popular blogs.  Don&#8217;t look at me like I&#8217;m evil for wanting to recruit top bloggers and pay them off, when you finally hear my idea, you&#8217;ll be like &#8220;Wow, that will help the human race&#8221;.</p>
<p>4. I&#8217;ve got a unique idea that lets me personally invest in the personal branding idea happening all over the Internet.  It&#8217;s going to be powerful, but REALLY hard to build, in terms of software.  I&#8217;m leaving this one, until I have a little more time, and a little more capital&#8230;but I want to keep it at the back of my mind.</p>
<p>One last idea hit me today, which I have spent zero time on&#8230; www.CreateA &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; .com&#8230;the title says it all.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m looking for great people to help start these ideas.  I have a small team of local talent to recruit from, but the people I know all all Engineers, and just graduating school.  People like me.  <a href="mailto:jeffrey.mclarty@gmail.com">E-mail me</a>, if you want more details, and have unique web start-up talents OR CAPITAL hehehe.</p>
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