Is there an “Energy Vampire” in your life ?

“Energy Vampires” consume, producing only enough to get by while seducing and taking money, property, time, effort and spiritual energy from others. “Energy Vampires” are naturally attracted to people who are depressed or having a rough spot in life and they pretend to help and heal a troubled person. Then, after the healing process has begun but is not finished, they start to take. They take your money, “gifts,” pride and self worth. They live on your resources. Once you are depleted and cannot “give them what they need,” they move on to one or more “backups” blaming you for all of their problems and leaving you in much worse condition than when they found you.

AKA- Persons with Borderline personality disorder, They always feel “empty”.

How can you tell if a person is an “Energy Vampire” ?

Here are a few easy tells and research you can do to uncover a Reptile before they destroy you.

This is not meant to single out females, the story applies to both male and female.

Is always “down” because her man “does not understand her;” he only cares about his job and career.

She will tell you that you can help her by being her friend, lover,  and financial supporter when she needs a “small loan”.

When having sex, she will always want to make eye contact, She will lovingly gaze into your eyes as she performs to help your “healing”. This is the “Energy Vampires” secret weapon. Eye contact during intimacy will energize you and grow the neural pathways that make you fall in love.  You will come to need her like an addict needs a fix.

It is highly likely she is a serial cheater and will have mastered technology to keep in touch with her “other world” of backups . Be suspicious if she gets a lot of messages and calls on her phone and takes the phone on a walk or to the store. She will be connected to this other world and will not want to combine phone accounts unless it is in her name.

She will probably have “secret APPS” on her cell phone,which you can discover if you go to Settings-general and look for “Restrictions”. Restrictions was originally set up as a parental control but it can hide many many apps for communicating with her “backup” men, drug dealers Sycophants and can hide other secrets such as images, video and dating sites. These apps do NOT appear on the phone bill except as “data” there is no way to track what and where and who.

“Energy Vampires” are very sexual for a while, then gradually wean you off of frequent sex and use it as a punishment or reward.

You cannot give an “Energy Vampire”  “enough.”  Whether it is time, attention, love, gifts or money, the more you give them, the more they want. You keep on giving until you are drained emotionally, energetically and financially.

“Energy Vampires” are frequently daughters of female alcoholics, addicts or Narcissists. They observed Mother and were exposed to abuse, neglect and early sexualizaton. They frequently have “abandoning fathers,” because Mother Vampire crushed his soul and he was left helpless as Mother moved to “safety,” away from everyone who knows her, to a fresh start and fresh “friends”.

You CANNOT “fix” or save an “Energy Vampire”. The damage done to them in their childhood is deep and profound. They practice massive mental compartmentalization and often have an inability to remember early childhood (pre 8 yrs old) or do not want to express those early memories. They will have been sexualized young, and will frequently have had lovers 5 to ten years older. One Vampire I knew described men her own age as “puppies”.

Many “Energy Vampires” lose their virginity to older men at or before thirteen many times met at one of Mother’s parties or a friend of one of mom’s friends, Mom is often an enabler of the bad behaviour.

The final trap: All Reptiles will use their past as an excuse for their destruction & havoc. “I had such a horrible early life” is a common excuse. They will waste the lives of their husband’s, family, and each backup man in sequence by repeating the same pattern with each: seduce, addict, drain, then move on to the next. Unless an “Energy Vampire” has been in deep therapy with a highly skilled professional for many many years, she is a lost cause for a relationship.

P.C. Revision of Previous Post…

Overly conservative and fearful.

That is the answer to the question…

Why do Midwestern investors miss out on all of the great startups, early stage and new innovative companies that launch in California, Seattle and New York ?

There is absolutely NO reason companies that are truly new, innovative and disruptive cannot be created and grow in the Midwest. Venture capital and angel investing pools do not form here, Why?

ALL Venture capital investors, angel investors and experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that there is no ability to pick a winner ahead of time, no way to spot the next billion $ company in advance, period. You will also observe that the majority of them achieving success had to leave home and go “there’ to make it happen, because of the 18th century mentality of their region.

A recent example is IMGUR.com founded in Athens Ohio By Alan Schaff a resident of Granville Ohio Attending “a college”. IMGUR.COM has over 130 million page views per month giving it a billion plus valuation in the marketplace. Andreessen Horowitz a true innovator in the venture capital space invested $40,000,000.00 in IMGUR for around 5%.  Out of Frustration Alan moved from Ohio to the fabled Silicon valley because the Athens, Marietta, Columbus Region was “no-where”.  And he was right what group of investors in Ohio would have invested in Alan at that valuation? none because?… Overly Conservative and Fearful.

Andreessen will most likely realize a  ten fold increase in the value of IMGUR in three years,  that Plus the founders equity could have stayed on Ohio.  Ohio University, TechGrowth, Ohio Tech-Angels, Rev1, Third Frontier, accredited private individuals and every VC fund all missed out on the one Unicorn to have emerged from the Ohio wilderness WHY ? Overly Conservative and Fearful.

Venture Capital in Ohio will say at one moment  “ yes, throwing darts at a chart” will have the same average we do” but then not invest in a startup because it does not match their “thesis”. OTAF, 3rd Frontier, etc etc know that only 1 in 1600 or so startups will ever be successful but they “go wild” by investing in a few hundred startups  OVER A DECADE!.  Now they suddenly realize in the waning year or so of a billion $ plus program that they had the wrong thesis since 70% of their “returns”* came from 30% of dollars invested and most of that in the last few years.  This result was pre-ordained and obvious to any entrepreneur who has ever started or run their own company as the boards, and managers were loaded up with government employees, Academics and lawyers with the vast majority of funds going to University programs.

Now here we are, Crowd funding by accredited and non-accredited alike is upon us, will Ohio and its Development departments, Politicians, Wealthy individuals, Banks, Endowments, Pension funds, Universities, “VC” funds fail again to embrace ture start up ventures and entrepreneurs, will they continue to be risk averse, overly conservative and non Entrepreneur focused ? Probably, know why…Overly Conservative and Fearful.

What about you ?

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Bunch Of PUSSIES !

Bunch of Pussies !

That is the answer to the question…

Why do Midwestern investors miss out on all of the great startups, early stage and new innovative companies that launch in California, Seattle and New york ?

There is absolutely NO reason companies that are truly new, innovative and disruptive cannot be created and grow in the Midwest except.. backward Wussies afraid to be Pioneers.

ALL Venture capital investors, angel investors and experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that there is no ability to pick a winner ahead of time, no way to spot the next billion $ company in advance, period. You will also observe that the majority of them achieving success had to leave home and go “there’ to make it happen, because of the 18th century mentality of their region.

A recent example is IMGUR.com founded in Athens Ohio By Alan Schaff a resident of Grandview Ohio Attending “a college”. IMGUR.COM has over 130 million page views per month giving it a billion plus valuation in the marketplace.

Andreessen Horowitz a true innovator in the Venture capital space invested $40,000,000.00 in IMGUR for around 5%.  Out of Frustration Alan moved from Ohio to the fabled Silicon valley because the Athens, Marietta, Columbus Region was “no-where”.  And he was right what group of investors in Ohio would have invested in Alan at that valuation? none because? …Right, Pussies.

Andreessen will most likely increase their investment ten fold in three years,  that Plus the founders equity could have stayed on Ohio.  Ohio University, TechGrowth, Ohio Tech-Angels, Rev1, Third Frontier, accredited private individuals and every VC fund all missed out on the one Unicorn to have emerged from the Ohio wilderness WHY ? yep, Pussies.

Venture Capital in Ohio will say at one moment “ yes, monkeys throwing poo at a chart” will have the same average we do” but then not invest in a startup because it does not match their “thesis”. OTAF, 3rd Frontier, etc etc know that only 1 in 1600 or so startups will ever be successful but they “go wild” by investing in a few hundred OVER A DECADE!.  They suddenly realize in the waning year or so of a billion $ plus program that they had the wrong thesis since 70% of their “returns”* came from 30% of dollars invested and most of that in the last few years.  This result was pre-ordained and obvious to any entrepreneur who has ever started or run their own company as the boards, and managers were loaded up with Government employees, Academics and lawyers with the vast majority of funds going to University programs.

Now here we are, Crowd funding by accredited and non accredited alike is upon us, will Ohio and its Development departments, Politicians, Wealthy individuals, Banks, Endowments, Pension funds, Universities, “VC” funds fail again to embrace ture start up ventures and entrepreneurs, will they continue to be risk averse, slack-jawed sayers of “NO” ? Probably, know why…go ahead it’s your turn to say it…

What about you ?

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Three-way Reference Scam (TWR)

There are businesses (many open for decades) who steal from other businesses on a regular basis. Their formula is simple and happens in every industry and product. (TWR) involves a business or individual maintaining three good credit references plus a good reference from a shipping company. The references may be unaware that they are part of a scam or may utilize the scammer as a reference too, giving reciprocity to fellow scammers.

The process is simple: Apply for terms with a business always requesting shipping cost included into the price or a referral to a local shipper where credit is also requested. An order is placed for a small amount of product paid for promptly followed by more orders with the volume & value of material escalating over time. Then the scam kicks in with multiple orders placed over a few weeks. By the time the first order becomes past due it just creates a past due statement & the entire scope is not noticed until 90 days has passed when scammer is no longer returning communications, lakes excuses or begins to claim the material or product was “off-spec”/ defective and therefore owe nothing.

This scam can be used to acquire equipment, rent space, obtain credit and cash.

(TWR) scammers are careful to maintain perfect accounts with 3 (unknowing ?) references and at least one shipper. The shipper is important to move product from unsuspecting sellers when local shippers cannot be found and ship product to downstream customers who will not pay their own freight up front.

(TWR) scammers also defraud their own customers (after building up trust) for example shipping containers of high value scrap to China or India then beginning to dilute or hide off-spec or filler material in future loads. One of these methods involves filling Gaylords half full with worthless or highly contaminated plastics then top filling with higher grade product. Of course the (TWR) scammer requires payment in advance (never extending credit) utilizing their three references as customer references rather than vendor references. The complaints of these foreign buyers also can be used as (proof) that a scammed vendor did indeed provide off-spec product. At this point he (TWR) scammer claims to be “just a broker” and “had no idea “…..

The targets of (TWR) scammers is usually a smaller independent company who cannot afford litigation or the cost of collection procedures. The scammers also keep their bank accounts dry since they know at some point a judgement will make it through and funds could be removed. Keeping multiple bank accounts under other SSN # and tax numbers with relatives or trusted friends.

For defence (TWR) scammers will aggressively defend themselves against selected targets. A likley target is- (1) about to go under (possibly do to the scam), (2) several states away and (3) begins to complain on message boards and call the three trade references basically seeking others victims or just for-warning others. The (TWR) will sue in local courts trusting that the target cannot afford legal representation or travel. This will result in a “default judgement” granting the scammer damages & most importantly a “gag order” specifically preventing the target from ever speaking out or warning others. This also becomes a public record creating fear among others who may try to seek redress or at least communicate with other business in attempting to stop future scams.

The smartest of these scammers maintain years of perfect business relationships with their references (if not part of the ring) and many large companies t keep their amount of scammed profits “below the radar”. The most sophisticated buy across state lines and keep the scam below $9,000.00 this tactic keeps law enforcement checked as local authorities say it is a Federal issue since state lines were crossed and Federal authorities will not look at cases under $10k unless there was clear wire fraud involving the postal service or an interstate bank.

How to defend against this scam ?

1- Do the trade references actually exist ? google maps and street-view works great in-depth searching of the web with multiple phrases including the business name, owner name and with addition of the phrase “vs” or the word court.

2- Watching new client activity and account ageing very closely, upward curves should trigger a visit to the new customer. A good practice any way should they become a large legitimate customer they will appreciate your interest and you WANT to help them succeed !

3- alibaba.com message boards and industry specific message boards.

4- Require proof of insurance and workers comp verification.

5- Search court records if volume increases and higher credit is requested.

These are just highlights, I am sure you can and will find many more.

Brett Bringardner

www.corvusstartups.com

@kaffegeek

Inspiration & advice from Kipling & Dennis Hopper to Entrepreneurs.

My definition is this:

Here are four common definitions of  “Entrepreneur”  followed by my definition.

Entrepreneur:

A person who founds, organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.

Entrepreneurs are innovative they come up with ideas and embody those ideas in high-growth companies without regard to scarce resources.

An Entrepreneur starts and organizes a business, taking risks by investing personally, Entrepreneur’s own the risk of founding and carrying on a business.

An individual who, rather than working as an employee, opens a business and assumes the risk and reward of a start-up venture, idea, product or service. Entrepreneur ‘s are seen as a business leaders & innovators of ideas & processes.

Here is My definition of an Entrepreneur:

All of the above and-  An annoying pain in the ass who will appear totally insane and whose Ideas you think are crazy, until you see traction and then they are “innovative” and you have missed funding round one.  95% of people do not understand a great idea when they see it, as time passes and the Entrepreneurial founder makes iterative progress a few more people see what the idea means (who thought Twitter, Facebook, Uber, IMGUR or “Yo” were cool or innovative when they began) ?  Entrepreneurs are cursed pariahs who launch, fail, pivot, fail, reorganize, fail,….. Until they find the right mix of product, service, team and the circumstances change enough to allow success.

Disruption ! If everyone likes you, you are not on The Path.

Entrepreneurial is NOT about:  Spirit  –  Managerial, Operational, Risk avoidance  –   The Money –  “it’s finished we can go home and relax”  –  Vacation  –   Impossible  –    being accepted.

Entrepreneurs are not “on the bitch train” we go to market, sell, tinker, heads down and wired in to discover our customers needs and exceed them.

Brett Bringardner
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Reaching out to old friends and Colleagues.

If you are a lost relative, friend, former symbiont or Borg graftee and are interested in getting back in touch or assimilating.

I am on the Third Planet out from Sol or Helios, near the inner rim of the Milky Way Galaxy’s Orion Arm, within the Local Fluff of the Local Bubble, and in the Gould Belt. At distance of 8.33 ± 0.35 kiloparsecs (27,200 ± 1,100 ly) from Galactic Center. (Sol/ Helios) is currently 5–30 parsecs (16–98 ly) from the central plane of the Galactic disk. The distance between the local arm and the next arm out, the Perseus Arm, is about 2,000 parsecs (6,500 ly). (Sol/Helios), and this Solar System, is found in the Galactic habitable zone.

The Third Planet is named Earth by the current indigenous self aware species (or so we let them believe). My location is at the local geographic co-ordinates of 39 deg 21′ 52.18″ / 81 deg 23′ 30″. Please contact via secure Quark entanglement network or my self aware security cordon may vaporize or transmogrify you without clearance.

The entire knowledge of the indigenous species can be uploaded in 0.0000000000011 seconds via even an antiquated quantum entangled ships modem making geoposition relatively simple, don’t for get to take relativity into calculations.

Indigenous planetary species are mostly harmless.

Regards
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Message to Alan and Matt at IMGUR.com about funding controversy.

Hello Matt

Hope all is well with you and Alan in S.F.

I run Corvus Ventures, start up “concept” companies, serve on the Sundown Rundown board and try to do what all entrepreneurs who create new companies “do”.

Disrupt is one of those things, both in business and in process and thinking of the public and potential investors. I have always been disconcerted with government being in business development and investing public monies as a basic philosophy.

Most taxpayers feel that if “they” are going to take Taxpayers money and invest it in companies that they should be held to a standard at least as high as a voluntary LP would have of a VC.

We have two controversies in the minds of your former neighbours in Athens Ohio:

1- Alan and Matt ignore, downplay, gloss over the role O.U. Innovation had in their success and you insulted all of Appalachia Ohio by calling us “NOWHERE” Ohio and that basically we suck and you could not have fled to sunny S.F. fast enough.

Sadly that my actually be true, this area is backward for many reasons, too many to list here.

2- And most importantly is the discussion: “should governments and public institutions invest tax dollars in areas besides roads, bridges, education and keeping law and order”?

If governments invest Taxpayers money in business to “grow jobs” should they do so with the same rigour and methodology as an experienced Angel or a VC? lets assume the answer is yes.

We know that only 0.07% of startups become “Unicorns” with billion $ plus valuations and that 90 % fail very fast. This means you have to invest over a wide array of type, geographies and number of start ups to have a chance at the Unicorn. You may also wish to hedge for additional safety.

In the case of Ohio University Investing cash, incubator space and time + effort of human capital into IMGUR to create jobs and an ROI for Ohio. “They” failed in their fiduciary duty to the taxpayer and the politicians who set up “Third Frontier”. We are checking to see if policy is in place to prevent this dereliction of duty now, as we all learn from our mistakes.

If a company funded by Taxpayers in any way fails (90%) that’s ok, IF we get the upside of the 10% and the occasional Unicorn.
At a bare minimum if a company succeeds and moves out of State the investment should be:

1- Paid back with interest.

2- Bought out at what ever “X” the valuation a VC has set, to be able to reinvest in more startups. Lets say Andreesen invested $40 million for 20%. Years earlier when Ohio taxpayers invested $25K plus services, a normal incubator would have taken at least 5%. Meaning Ohio’s taxpayers should have a valuation of $12 million.

3- A proper investment into IMGUR would have included a non-dilution clause, the opportunity to sell its 5% or invest more in Seed and coming rounds.

Ohio, O.U. Innovation Ctr., Techgrowth, Third Frontier, State Development “professionals” all failed investing 101.

Brash young entrepreneurs can be forgiven for Dissing their elders back home (with a proper apology). The politicians and administrators who failed the taxpayers need to be replaced.

I am very interested in a response from Alan, Marc and yourself
especially if I am wrong or have a misconception. Thousands of entrepreneurs and you former neighbours and alumni from “NOWHERE” Ohio are very interested. and want the story clarified.

Regards

Brett Bringardner
@kaffegeek

Corvus Ventures

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Ohio loses a Unicorn near Athens at Ohio University Innovation center

UNICORNS

This type of company is the single rarest species to find, capture and hold.

How Ohio third Frontier, TechGROWTH and the Innovation Center let a Unicorn escape.

IMGUR “image-er”

A scrape of PR and stories about IMGUR from the Innovation Center website & the web shows a glaring, “in your face Ohio” Insult from the founders of IMGUR.

Do the math, IMGUR has 130 million unique page views per month, similar companies are currently at a $1 Billion valuation. IF Ohio University and TechGROWTH had taken the standard 5% for a cash infusion and acceptance into the incubator 5% would be worth $50 million, Since it’s inception OU and TechGrowth have been given about $10 million over nearly 5 years, if they followed the most basic duty of a Venture fund they would have returned over 5X to their partners! Imagine a private investment firm losing their partners $50 million… At the least the end of a career, Suits for damages and perhaps, the ever popular “perp walk”

The exact Scrapings from websites and articles follow.

Many hundreds of dedicated entrepreneurs strive for funding and assistance for anywhere they can get it and are grateful if given even a tiny $25,000.00 and some office space and staff.

Our new startup will do everything it can to remain in the Marietta Athens area, Appalachia is very far away from “Nowhere”

What is the reason you or an organization invests ? Long term capital appreciation via a diversified and hedged portfolio. Right.. ? In the case of Governments investing in what ver they convince taxpayers is a good idea (after taking the money by force). The usual rationale is “job growth” Creating or enticing companies to come here and not “there”, the mechanism for this effort is the Ohio “Third Frontier” program administered by groups such as TechGROWTH, Tech Columbus and Jumpstart, Innovation Centers and business development entities galore.

A part of this goal is to find a “Unicorn” which is a company reaching One BILLION dollars (envision Dr. Evil) in valuation. unfortunately that is only 0.07% of all tech startups. IMGUR is clearly a young Unicorn on its way to Pure bread champion status.

IMGUR was founded by a student at OU and helped along by the Innovation Center at Ohio University The “well trained, expert staff” however did not secure any equity or rights to follow on invest in IMGUR should it succeed. There was no small print saying that should the Entrepreneur succeed and Not stay in Ohio, the university and taxpayers would be compensated or guaranteed a chance at ROI. Probably not the fault of the staff, Lawmakers may have tied their hands against making any real return on investments, But that’s crazy right ? The professionals at the various Third Frontier entities have been aggressively been seeking equity for taxpayers, right ?

Remember only 0.07% of all tech startups can ever be a Unicorn and Ohio clearly blew it. Now Ohio is being ridiculed by IMGUR’S founder. Alan Schaaf states in an interview that Athens, OU, Appalachia and Ohio is “Nowhere”.

Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz snapped up IMGUR with a $40 million capital infusion, Not one Ohio VC, Investor group or Third frontier group in Ohio was allowed to compete with Silicon Valley where IMGUR now resides and actively recruits Ohio tech talent to move away.

 

Here is the PR from the OU Innovation ctr followed by the actual words from IMGUR founders and the glaring F-you to Ohio.

 

Forbes instagram user curated- http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/10/25/not-so-simple-imgur-wants-to-be-the-instagram-of-user-curated-viral-images/

Not a single mention of OHIO, OU or the Innovation center in the article or interview.

 

TechCrunch article from Innovation site, still with zero mention of IMGUR roots. http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/21/imgur-brisk-scumbag-steve/

 

On allthings D, Alan Schaaf to Ohio, briefly mentions being a student at OU but totally ignores whatever role the Innovation center played. http://allthingsd.com/20120515/interview-imgurs-path-to-1-billion-image-views-per-day/

 

In an article by Ohio University itself, the reporter mentions the connection to Innovation ctr, weaving it in around Schasfs Glee at a silicon valley award. http://www.ohio.edu/compass/stories/11-12/2/imgur-award.cfm

 

Without the interweaving of OU reporters NO mention at Tech Crunch interview http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/01/imgur-wins-best-bootstrapped-startup-sees-1-billion-pageviews-per-month/

 

In this recent TechCrunch article- After Five Years Of Bootstrapping, Imgur Raises $40 Million From Andreessen Horowitz & Reddit- http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/03/after-five-years-of-bootstrapping-imgur-raises-40-million-from-andreessen-reddit/

Not a SINGLE mention of Ohio, OU or the Innovation center connection.

 

Bethany George copied a link on the OU Innovation Linkedin group to the WSJ artlcle- http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/04/03/imgur-raises-40-million/

FINALLY a mention of the INNOvat… oh wait Schaaf mentions a “$25,000 grant in 2010 from “a program” at Ohio University. From a post on the OU Innovatin ctr facebook page- http://mashable.com/2014/04/03/imgur-funding-round/

 

Alan Schaaf says “first outside funding for the site” is the 40 million from Andreesen and Reddit. “The site had been entirely self funded or “bootstrapped” in startup terms.

 

And finally the Coup Degrass, I think that is spelled right, I am from Appalachia Ohio so I really dont know, right Alan and Matt, ?

INC magazine article and interview by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin- http://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/imgur-founders-interview.html

Not only do Alan Schaaf and his partner Matt Strader ( a former staffer at the Innovation ctr) not mention OU and the innovation ctr at all they openly diss Athens as “Nowhere” Ohio and were just waiting for the chance to clear out. http://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/imgur-founders-interview.html

“Schaaf, along with his co-founder Matt Strader, in December,  said not raising VC funding was his proudest achievement as a founder.” “At the patient hands of Schaaf and Mike Strader, the company’s COO, over the past four years, Imgur has grown organically without a cent of outside investment ($25,000 from Ohio Taxpayers is worthless ?). What was Schaaf’s dorm-room-based side-project is today still a pretty lean operation” now all mention of the connection to OU and the Innovation ctr has been deliberately scrubbed.

Alan Schaaf “I was working at the technology call center, where students call in if they can’t get their email to work or something. A minimum-wage kind of job. Then the time came when I could pay not only for the bandwidth bills and the hosting costs of Imgur, but I could also get an extra pizza every week. Next, I could afford an apartment. Then the moment actually came when I could support myself, and bring on Matt Strader full-time, and I realized that this could be a real business that could make actual money.” Hmmm, did Alan And Matt have the $25,000.oo and free office and staff at this time ?

Again no mention of connection to OU or Innovation ctr. Matt Strader: “You know how you get all these emails from your university you never read? I just happened to read one, and it was a little feature about Imgur and it had a picture of Alan, and laid out all the cool things that were happening. I thought, “This sounds really awesome.” We just got together at The Front Room, the main coffee shop at the university, and started talking about the business. I was able to provide outside consulting and advice for about a year before joining full-time.”See Matts resume below)

And here it is , the real deep down feelings of Alan Schaaf “I knew I wanted to move out here (San Francisco), whether it was to work at Google or some other company. It also makes sense to be out here, rather than Nowhere, Ohio, which isn’t exactly known as a tech hub. It’s so much easier to meet people out here, if we ever wanted to raise funding. And it’s like 12 degrees in Ohio right now. OMG !

(OMG added by us sorry ass Appalachian Ohio residents who Alan and Matt Strader wish no one knows too much about)

What is Alan Proudest of ? “Schaaf: I’m probably most proud of the fact that we are bootstrapped, and that we are able to do not just the typical Silicon Valley startup thing. We are basically throwing away all the typical conventions of other startups. We didn’t have to go down that path of having an idea, raising a bunch of funding, hire a ton of people, raise more rounds, and all of a sudden you are a 1,000 person company and you’re not making any money. We have flipped that around. We are 10 people; we are making money. And we are this huge traffic source. We are a staple of the Internet, all because we’ve just done things our own way and have just followed our gut.

So, how does Athens Ohio, the Appalachia region and the taxpayer feel about Alan, Matt and IMGUR ? Let you opinion be heard.

 

Here are some links to IMGUR- and possible conversations between Alan and Matt

http://imgur.com/gallery/BkgRdSg   Matt, here is our VC funding !

http://imgur.com/gallery/QelCd8p   Matt, what Alan ?OU is giving Blowjob classes ! Maby we should move back, nawwww.

http://imgur.com/gallery/g4TQrDT   Matt,, what Alan Not made in OhIo, tee heee….

http://imgur.com/gallery/zEu5o0S   Matt, What Alan, I got the munchies here are some snacks from the trip we took to that place we used to live at.

http://imgur.com/gallery/ggzkHJ1 Hey Alan, what Matt, looks like OU and the Innovatin center found another fuckin Unicorn, lets recruit em or do an Acquirehire and move them out of “Nowhere Ohio” before they become a baby daddy and get trapped.

http://imgur.com/gallery/NblMh   Hey Alan, what Matt, Remember that shirt ? Yeaa we we sure beat it out of “nowhere” in time. in time !

http://imgur.com/gallery/uOXVHGp   Hey Matt, what Alan, remember the blowjob scene in the facebook movie, Now OU is training the workers of tomorrow ! Fantastic INNOVATION

 

 

 

Interesting that Matt Strader never mentions Ohio University, Innovation Ctr or Tech Growth and the financial grant plus innovation center mentoring here is his resme from LinkedIN “

Partner, COO Imgur, LLC
San Francisco Bay Area
Helping to build the world’s best image sharing and entertainment web site.

Executive-in-Residence
TechGROWTH Ohio
Assist technology startups with strategic business planning and fundraising from Pre-Seed, Angel, and Venture Capital resources. Areas of focus included Internet businesses, university-based tech startups, and member clients of The Innovation Center.

Operational Assistance Signature Consultant
Ohio University
Provided business consulting and management support for early stage technology companies. Specialized in work with Interactive Digital Technology companies including Internet and gaming startups.

 

Please send you opinions and feedback to Myself, OU, Third frontier, Innovation Ctr, TechGROWTH, Marc Andreeesen  skip Alan and Matt they dont care but if you wish to try you can send them inmail on Linkedin and create your own IMGUR MEME its quite fun !

Brett Bringardner

Corvus Ventures

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sundownrundown.org

einsteinsurplus.com

 

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