Posted on 09/06/2001 5:44:21 AM PDT by buaya
Now THAT'S funny! LOL!
Good stuff!
Neither of them know what the other is doing? Or neither of them know what they themselves are doing? For the record, speaking as an engineer, I know quite well what I'm doing.
No. I think it's pointing out the disconnect between the realities for VCs vs. engineers who put the whole thing together.
Irony is, I just quit work to finish my degree, so as to become an active member of the VC squad...
I think that my 15 years of technical knowledge, combined with a managerial economics degree (i.e., a BS in finance with NO fluff, just more quantitative analysis), should qualify me to be effective in just such a role.
Not because I want to make a stink-pot of money (I do), but because I can spot value when I see it. I may not be the most original thinker in the world, but I know a good thing when I see it. Unlike most banker/finance/accounting types...
FWIW.
FReegards,
Thanks for taking the time to review my resume'. My family and I have worked hard on building it.
You've got that right about the (Liberal) Consulting world! However, I'm changing that. And because I am bringing competency, integrity, and roles and responsibilities to my practice, (amongst other important components) the other Consulting companies chastise me. But most importantly, because I actually meet or exceed customer expectations, customers love me.
I would like to get more professional exposure with people like those on FR or other appropriate Conservative sites.
Conservatives are typically more success minded individuals, and you know what to expect from them. They have a code of ethics, somewhat tarnished in recent years maybe. Although, infinitely better than working with people who's ethics revolve only around themselves and their primal needs, and all the underlying useless psychobabble to support it. They are limiting my success. So I am looking to find better company.
Anyone have any suggestions on how I could go about finding a Conservative Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Consulting Practice business partner? All suggestions are welcomed and surely appreciated. I may be be asking a lot to find this most optimum siuation. But there is no shame in falling short of an ideal.
Thanks, S4T
I never raised venture capital for my company. Never needed it. Never will. The cost of working with these guys is just too high.
Ah, one of the secrets to success. The trick is winning that love and the things one does to win it.
Dittos! Bootstrapped! Started lean and have kept it lean. Couldn't get money when I needed it and laugh now when they want to throw it at us.
This reminds me of 3 true letters I got while working for the government which stated (paraphrased):
1. Please attend the meeting at ______. Subject of meeting: why we are having so many meetings which take up so much time we can't get all our work done." Result of the meeting was to schedule monthly meetings on the subject.
2. "We are instituting a paper saving program, please save paper" (That is all it said (1 line - sent to all 5000 personnel on a full 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper.)
3. The next week we all got another, which was 1/2 inch long x 8 1/2 inch wide, which said, "please save paper."
Excellent article, and fine engineering jokes - There was one office philosophy cartoon I had in my purchasing department, of an engineer in anguish, pulling out his hair, captioned "My god, you bought what I designed?"
"MD has a well reasoned and logical set of policies. The sole purpose of the customer is to violate, frustrate and nullify those policies."
And HE was their marketing guy.
This wasn't with a startup company but a multi-billion dollar company. I was negotiating a standardized shipping contract for multiple shipments, worth about $40 million, and was having a little trouble coming to final agreement on the wording of one sentence. My boss asked me how it was coming, I told him, and he had lunch with one of the company lawyers, in Houston, and mentioned it to him. Well, with that, the Houston lawyers got involved, then the SanFrancisco lawyers got involved, then the New York Lawyers got involved, and then the Copenhagen lawyers.
Four months later, after intense work, the lawyers finally agreed and offered us the completed contract. I reviewed my copy, the shipping company reviewed their copy, we both agreed, that based on this contract, absolutely nothing could be shipped. We both threw it in the trash, told the lawyers it was fine, no need to 'help' any more, and made a one page addendum with 7 paras, to a standard booking note and went about our business, vowing never to discuss it with the lawyers again. LOL, now, but then, I was pulling my hair out. It was a good education in contract law, however, and particularly the importance of where to place a comma.
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