Life is for learning, and no one has all the answers.  It is our hope that people view the VC Fodder Forums as a conduit for learning, but not a replacement for real life.  Much like the rest of our site, we simply hope these humble forums become useful as fodder for entrepreneurs around the world.  And please note, our use of fodder is this: A small and otherwise insubstantial thing that helps spark a much bigger boom.

As you make more posts, you'll also notice your user level will change.  For those who are curious, here are the defined user levels (and posts necessary to obtain that level):

• BabyFodder, 0    
• KinderFodder, 5    
• ElementaryFodder, 20    
• FreshmanFodder, 50    
• SophomoreFodder, 100    
• JuniorFodder, 250    
• SeniorFodder, 500    
• CollegiateFodder, 1,000    
• Masters in Fodder, 1,500    
• Doctorate of Fodder, 2,500    

If you have any questions, any complaints, or any suggestions for improvement, please do not hesitate to contact Ben Rowland or me.

See you in the funny pages! 

Cheers!

Bill
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"It doesn't take talent to write, it just takes pen and paper...or a computer."

Now I have a goal to shoot for

Bill
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"It doesn't take talent to write, it just takes pen and paper...or a computer."

Sorry, loopy from reading Business 2.0 101 stupidest moments 2005 list. http://business2.blogs.com/business2blog/2006/01/dumbest_moments.html

In a past life I used to boss around hundreds of real, live, actual employees.  Over 100, at one point.  My philosophy was to treat them nicely, because you never know when you'll have to fire them.  On post employment relations, my main goal was to reduce the disgruntled former employees to merely gruntled former employees.

Cheers!

Bill
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"It doesn't take talent to write, it just takes pen and paper...or a computer."

I think that the most people I ever had working under me was 6, not sure I'd want to deal directly with 100 or more. Take to much time and effort to remember their names and interests I guess.

To manage that many people I'd have to have a far greater command distance than I am currently capable of outputting =/

Accordign to the earliest E-mail I have from you (check you archives, I gave you a nice complement:cool I found the site 1/5/2005. I even submited a question to Dr. VC, look for the one on approching people to be on the BoD.

As for what I'm doing here, I'm a start-up junkie (trying to get one off the ground), I tend to work for just funded companies after I got burned badly in the Telecom meltdown. I currently work for a 10 year old start-up called GlobalSpec. (A verticle B2B engeinering site). During the last 4 years I've spent a decent amount of time networking; I consider this site a way for honing my skills and networking at the same time. I've made the elevator pitch for my companies a few times; to defering amounts of success. Nieter one is through prototyping yet. Bill actully helped me change a key buisness plan model close to a year ago, (not sure he even remebers doing it) that was a HUGE increase to the viablity of the project.

As for a little bit of personal info: I'm 30 years old and live in Albany, NY. I worked in the techbelt of Boston for 6 years for small companies, 3 of which were aquired while A I worked there; Fujitsu Nexion, Newbridge, FiberLoop and Centenial Technology. I've developed things from wireless PDA style fleet managemetn hardware to Gig-E/T1 CPE equipment. The best known product I worked on was a CES DS-3 flavor of Fujitsu's Flash 150.

I'm a hardware guy who works in the internet space now; I'm a rabid consumer of information. I'm a beta-tester for sites that will take me.

Think that's enough, the TMI light  just went on.