...until it was too late.
I came to the Nashville Startup Weekend expecting to listen to other folks' ideas. It didn't occur to me until the pitches were over and the projects selected that I actually had something I might have pitched if my brain had been a little more fully functioning at the time. So, here's the pitch I would have made had I not been trapped in "woulda coulda shoulda" limbo all day yesterday:
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Here's the two essential things you need to know about me:
1) In 1995, I started an Internet business with the domain "songs.com." I started it with two partners. We each pitched in $250. Total start-up capital = $750. 4-1/2 years later we sold that business for $3-million.
2) I'm ready to do that again.
In the years since I sold that business, I have devoted my time to researching and writing biographies of obscure 20th century scientists. The first result of that pursuit was The Boy Who Invented Television, a biography of Philo T. Farnsworth.
The first part of my pitch is: I want to turn that book into an iPhone app, and develop a new marketing program for both the hard copy and the e-book. I figure this is a book that belongs in every home that has a television. That's a potential market of oh, say, 100-million homes or so...hey, 1% of that potential market is a business.
What I really want to do is devise an "interactive marketing strategy" around the release of my second book. This one is about a man named Thomas Townsend Brown, who discovered what many people regard as an "anti-gravity" effect in the 1920s -- and then disappeared into the black world of classified military research and intelligence operations in the 1940s.
What I've learned in the course of my research about Townsend Brown is that there are technologies just out of our reach that offer comprehensive solutions to our energy, environmental, and economic challenges. These technologies promise a quantum leap in human evolution, but remain out of reach because our culture is just not ready for them.
Our technology is already light years ahead of our culture. We have computers and cell phones and digital communications, but our civilization remains mired in tribal structures that reach back more than 2,000 years.
The next leap in technology is going to first require a leap of consciousness. I propose to use the digital communications technologies that are already at our disposal to devise an "interactive marketing strategy" to facilitate that leap of consciousness around the mysteries revealed in my new book.
Read the Concept Statement behind the book.
Read the Preface from the book.
Contact me:
[email protected]
via Twitter: driver49
...or just find me wandering aimlessly around the halls (when I'm not scheming with the "Assassins!" group).
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