Friday, March 21, 2008

Taking care of Business


Well it was quite a interesting week. I went to the Midwest Venture Capital Summit in Chicago to look for funding for our company. What an interesting group. A good many companies looking for funding and a good amount of venture capital companies examining the companies.My associate and I spoke with and gave presentations to several of the VCs. Some got our concept and expressed interest, and some looked at me as if I was out of my mind and had not a clue of what the virtual metaverse was. This was fun, the looks that I got were hysterical, virtual reality? whats that? said one ederly gentleman. The key note speaker who is a friend of a friend also did not have any idea of what web3D was, he said that so many new things are coming out that I dont know about and this is one of them. He gave $70,000 Dollars to one company as a grant although and I thought that was cool. The VCs that did show interest are still looking into our Business model but I really am starting to believe that we belong on the West Coast as the thinkers are more progressive than the Midwest, oh well the conservative Midwest bankers can stick to the conservative deals and not be part of the internet evolution. We march on. I am getting more excited about the Virtual Worlds Conference that my associates and I are going to April 3 and 4 we will take care of Business at that show as we will be all about monetizing the Virtual Worlds.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Working in a coal mine


I have been grinding along ,looking for more investment capital and business opportunities. All has been going well our company has really started to take off. We have Tommy in from Belgium he has really been quite an inspiration, he spends alot of time in world doing all the things that need tending to. Our staff really has been working hard to get everything ready for our up coming Virtual Worlds Conference April, 3rd and 4th in New York City, we very much believe that we will be a big hit and gain many new clients for our new product Slippcat. We are very excited about its introduction at the show.Advertising in the metaverse will never be the same again. We also have formed a strategic partnership with code 4 software, this has been a very important move for us and we think that we have saved much time and money doing it. My day starts at 5am and I trade electronic futures until about 8 or 9 am , then I start making cold calls for new clients as well as calls for investment capital,I do this until about 11am when I go to work out, I play racquetball until about 1pm and then hit the computer again to send out e mail to the contacts I made in the morning, this goes on until about 4 or 5 pm, after that I start to deal with the real work, caring for and driving my 4 children to various activities that they participate in, at 8pm I put the 2 small girls in bed and I hang out with the older ones and watch TV until 9 or 10pm that is when I fall asleep.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Keep on keeping on


As I have been in sales a long time I know that each rejection brings me closer to a positive response. That being said I deal with a lot of rejection. It is a numbers game that is played out over time. I have been selling our services here at Simuality for about 8 months, in that time a few very choice clients have been developed. If my average was 1 per month I would be very happy, as it is the clients that have been developed are very big and could count as more than several.I believe that if you are going fishing you may as well fish for the monster instead of the baby fish. We are going to New York city next month and I will be trolling for giant tuna. When we have landed a few giant tuna Simuality and Slippcat will take off like a rocket.