Brian Giese's Blog

Do you need to get funded?

Here's something new to the mix. Used to be that VC's rated tech start-up's. Now, a new start-up called TheFunded rates the VC's. TheFunded.com claims to be a community of leading entrepreneurs from around the world of over 1,000 entrepreneurs and CEO's that provides inside information on funding sources.

Here's how the model works. The Funded offers a directory of venture capital firms and investors that members can comment on and rate on a scale of 1 to 5. The identity of the site's proprietor is unknown, but its attitude -- exemplified by the need for prospective members to provide a good reason as to why they should be granted membership could be threatening the the VC community to say the least.

TheFunded could be a useful resource if it can attract enough users and its data actually reflects reality rather than the extreme opinions of a few disgruntled reviewers. However, without the qualitative data, I doubt a full picture of a venture capitalist's performance can ever be captured. But it's a start.

This is a great use of organic, user-driven information and social networking at it's best. It's a great idea, I hope it works.

GoDaddy.com's Bob Parsons Rules

I've been using GoDaddy.com to host my web sites since about 2000. It's been a great relationship and mostly because of Bob Parson's, it's founder. Bob's a real sales and marketing guru and he's built a rock solid technical marketing machine with GoDaddy.com. Here are some words of wisdom from Bob that he calls "My Rules for Business and Life in General" recently posted on his blog. Definitely worth the read.

High Tech Golf Sales

I saw this video clip over the weekend and was taken by the sales technology of golf and how much this industry  is banking on it. With just short of $1 billion in sales last year, staying at the top of an increasingly competitive market has become almost solely a technology sales play. Take a look at this and tell me what you think.

Screensaver for 4th of July

Found this on Guy Kawasaki's blog... "In the spirit of the 4th of July, here is a great fireworks  screensaver called Skyrocket. You can see a video of the screensaver here."

Here's a page at Cafe Express to get more stuff to celebrate the 4th. Be safe and enjoy!