I was going to let the whole Andrew Meyer tasing brouhaha skip this blog (even though I’m broadcasting from ground zero), but one shining example of crowdsourced capitalism caught my attention. If you don’t already know about CafePress, you should check it out — it’s an awesome combination of creativity and entrepreneurship. When you do [...]
Florida Venture Blog
by Dan Rua…just a VC, living vicariously thru entrepreneurs…
Monthly Archives: September 2007
Sep 25
blogorlando 2007: I hope I can sneak in…
OK, so after talking up blogorlando 2007 to every blogger (and some sponsors) I could find in the area, I find myself locked out of registration. My bad for waiting too long to make my attendance official. It’s scheduled for this Thu-Sat, Sept. 27-29, at Rollins College (with bookend social events at Universal CityWalk and [...]
Sep 20
Business Plan Templates
Although I believe business plans are most important for the mental process they make an entrepreneur go through, this post is largely an experiment with Google’s new cost-per-action text link ad units. Specifically, this link will take you to various offerings to help with business plan creation. I haven’t tried their bizplan template, but I [...]
Sep 18
Where’s Dan Now?
It’s gotten to be a running joke among family and friends. Because Florida has great entrepreneurs spread across hotspots around the state, any given day can find me in Orlando, Ft Myers, Boca, Melbourne, Tampa, Miami, Gainesville or anywhere in between. I’ve seen the exciting and the mundane from my traveling office (AKA car). While [...]
Sep 14
A Double Dash of Dingo…er, Wingo
Scot Wingo is one of my all-time favorite entrepreneurs (and current Inflexion Advisor). It doesn’t hurt that he was one of the first entrepreneurs I backed (AuctionRover) and proceeded to knock it out of the park in less than a year (acquired by GoTo/Overture). He builds great teams, a passionate culture and eats competitors for [...]
Sep 12
SEOmoz: SEO Expert Quiz
I’ve gotten to know Rand Fishkin a little bit and I’m impressed with his evolution of SEOmoz. The site looks very different than when I first found SEOmoz, bursting with search engine nuggets, entertaining blog posts, SEO tools and premium content — all within an elegant design. I’m no SEO expert so I won’t claim [...]
Sep 11
GuessNow: Can Predictive Markets Be Fun?
I’ve always been intrigued by the potential of predictive markets: speculative markets created for the purpose of making predictions. That’s why I was excited when Delray Beach, FL-based GuessNow contacted me about sponsoring an FVB review via PPP Direct. It was also timely because I’m following up my completion of Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail, [...]
Sep 10
To all the messages I’ve missed before…
While at lunch today I saw an entrepreneur who reached out to me awhile back. He was cool about the lack of follow-up, but I hate that so many messages fall through the cracks nowadays. My New Year’s resolution to clear my inbox monthly has been a complete washout. I currently have over 11,000 emails [...]
