Howard wrote:
> Why is $100K of my, and your, money being given to a P/L business to
> commercialise some software?
I would like to know the answer to this question too.
The grant is for commercialising emerging technology, yet Voice over IP
emerged some time ago, and died. Ozemail was doing this in 1995, with one of
the directors of this company in fact. The basis of the business seems to be
mainly that they're offering conferencing services. Big deal. The grant
might as well go to the local print shop or something.
Secondly, the business apparently has good venture funding. It doesn't need
$100,000. Given the involvement of equity investors, I don't see why we're
giving these guys $100,000 to pay for some nice trips overseas.
Regards, Tony Healy
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Now the trouble comes when you can't think of any new features, so you put
in the paperclip, and then you take out the paperclip, and you try to charge
people both times, and they aren't falling for it. Joel
Eschler(www.joelonsoftware.com)
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