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BobSmith

Do you have a contact number I can reach you at?

Blake Moody

Hi, thank you for posting this I and my partner feel as if we have what your looking for however the tech part is lacking we both have web knowledge just the application part needs the help we would like to speak to you direct on the idea due to the openness ok this forum trust me this idea is nothing like youtube or even networking websites our idea would speak to a large group of people with a need I hate to sound like a info commercial but I am very passionate about this please email me at LoganWilderLLC@gmail.com or call me direct at 803-448-7333 trust me I think with your help we could do great things.

Arnett C Banks

Hello Bob,

Interesting! We were actively looking for funding to get our system developed and marketed, and/or looking for a development partner to make this happen.

Our lean, agile, and profitable web business model will target the health and fitness industry. Its really all I can say without an MNDA

We have the plan, marketing strategy and plan, market research to back up this industry and growth, financials, and technical requirements to build our system but just missing the technical gurus and resources to make this happen.

My partner and I have a solid management background
but we shine is in our aggressive marketing strategy and approach that will make this pig fly

Let me know if it sparks your interest and I can
provide a business overview presentation
and do a conference call as well.

BK

OOPS! I forgot to tell you what my website is. LOL.

htp://bumblebeegarage.com and don't worry about the whole garage thing. We don't have to work from the garage if we have something more substantial.

I am not really interested in ideas. I have loads of ideas that could make money. The point is, they wont without the right people driving them.

The longer you are in business for yourself the more you realize just how hard it really is to be successful. It takes a whole lot more than a good idea.

I am looking for the people that already know that. I am looking for people with passion and commitment. I have already turned down 100 or more people that had wonderful dreams, but in the world of business, people do not invest in dreams. They invest in solid plans and motivated people.

The old theory of "if you build it they will come" just does not work in the real world.

Bob,
I have read you requirements for a partner and potential project but I have some minor questions for you. Running the data center out of your garage is quite spectacular!

1. What programming languages are you guys proficient in? Any Ruby on Rails or AJAX or perhaps any FLEX knowledge? Again programming is the most important aspect of our solution, as it will determine how the system works, interacts, and responds to particular requests.

2. When you say we, how many guys/gals are we talking about?

3. You speak of enterprise level systems, are you speaking of millions of users - koz that's what I'll need?

4. What other resources do you provide?

Thank you for you time!
BK

Onlinebiz - I did not mean to shoot you down. But if you run your own business you know that everyone thinks they can and very few actually can. With 99.999% of the people that contact me having nothing substantial behind the idea you have to understand I automatically assume the worst.

Of course I am happy to discuss ideas with anyone. But getting me to sign on as a partner is a bit harder. If I am going to spend hundreds of hours programming I need to know there is potential to make money.

As a web host, we see 8 of every 10 people that sing up, quit within 3 months. When you see that type of commitment day after day it is easy to be very quick to judge people.

That is why I set up bumblebeegarage.com to give people a better chance to show me that they are committed. Knowing you are self employed changes the equation because you understand the work involved.

web2.0_co - When you are talking about programming it is completely irelevent. If you know how to program you can do anything with any language.

You can compare it to telephones, it does not matter who makes it, they all get calls from the same numbers. It does not matter if you use cell, satellite, fiber optic or copper wire you hear the same voice out of the speaker.

In our case, the browser is the telephone and all content is delivered as HTML. It does not matter what language you use, the input and output are the same.

As far as users. Yes. I have built sites with millions of registered users and interactive applications feeding more than 2 million pages an hour. Of course I could build for bigger, but I have archived those numbers and am aware of the programming requirements at those levels.

My automotive site buzztrader.com has about 100,000 unique visitors a day viewing nearly a million pages a day. Althoght that is quite small in enterprise terms, it is very busy for a website.

We run some servers that retail for just under $100,000.00 each. So you can imagine we plan for big loads and high traffic. We also have our own clustering software so we distribute loads over multiple servers when needed.

If you look at the photo I have of my garage based data center it is better equipped than most big corporations. That is all equipment that has rotated out of service, so you can bet I have filled it at one time. All of our new equipment is in our actual datacenter and not our garage.

The truth is, most of the ideas people have will run on a pretty basic inexpensive server and will never have the traffic they think it will. So I like to start small and grow if the business grows rather than spending big money on a network and a year programming only to hit a wall.

If you talk with me, we can plan for the loads you will have. I have been doing this for over 10 years, so I know what to expect most of the time.