Financing

[Raymond]

I just noticed a post announcing the "Advisory Capital Network" that
might be of interest to some in this group.

http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2006/05/advisory_capita.html

Any other things such as this that we should know about? Will it work?
Any other Web 2.0 financing resources?

[AdamD]

I guess this is a real announcement, but it confuses me since he used
this newspaper clipping generator:
http://tools.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp

Other blogs have been posting jokes using it, so it makes me cautious!

And I thought Web 2.0 was all about bootstrapping? Or, is it about
Ajax? Or, big fonts?

:)Adam

[Ryan W]

I have to say I'm pretty skeptical about this adisory capital stuff. I
mean, I suppose if they have really good connections, it probably
doesn't hurt a whole lot, and I'm all for listening to people 's input.
But, bringing in people who don't have anything personally invested
(either in terms of money or time spent developing a product) just
seems like a bad idea.

In local news, OVP just raised a new fund
(http://blog.oef.org/2006/05/more_money_more_money.html), $207 million,
the largest in state history. One helpful resource that I've come
across lately is oregonstartups.com. They have a good newsletter
packed with local happenings and financing news from all over. For
those interested in financing, there are a couple of things happening
next Wenesday:
http://db.sao.org/calendar2/event_description.htm?eventID=5/31/06
http://www.ostpartnership.org/eventRegistration/index.php?eventId=9&sec=overview