Well I was cruising the start-up world and I thought I would post this because the start-up world seems alot like this these days. Once again we are really about the news and we are trying to get into shape so we can go and raise some money or figure out how to survive on revenue.
Thanks for listening,
Mark Nejmeh
Monday, December 19, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
Our Ugly Start-up
If you have been watching television lately you may have run into a few shows about start-up companies. There is a show on Bloomberg Television called Tech Stars that highlights 5 or more of the hottest most beautiful, most well funded companies in NYC. I was watching the show and I could not get over how beautiful these companies were. Why each of them sounded just like Facebook or at least they all spoke like Mark Zuckerberg, In short robotic soundbites sort of a cross between a Valley girl and Dustin Hoffman's character in Rain Man Raymond Babbit. I mean this is where investing is today in America. There just is not a differentiation among the profiles of start-ups. That is why we are trying to change. I don't think we have a chance of getting funding unless we can talk in these short sound bites that the rest of the start-up community has adopted. We need a few things to succeed based on the start-ups that have received funding. I have made a list.
1. We need an Ivy League founder.
2, He or she must have a thin appearance and or look like Ronald MacDonald.
3. Must have a relatively vague yet "OK this might work" business plan. (this will make it easy to convince the rest of robotic America to start using the tech.
4. We better have an attitude that work is the only thing and we should all sleep in the office except when our mom insist we come home for dinner.
5. Facial hair and a cool hair cut. Skip the facial hair for women but oops there really are not that many start-up women anyway.
6. Analytics, we need analytics, there has to be some type of data that we can collect and report that will eventually destroy humanity. We need this data so that we can make people do what we want them to do. You know like buy peanut butter or something. I mean what good is doing a business unless we can scrape the inside of a person cabeza.
7. We must think that what we are doing is fun and always smile.
8. Like you know ...like.....awesomeness. MUST HAVE!
9. Nerf balls and beer.
10.Collaboration, we need interns that we can steal ideas from , I mean collaborate with,
11. We need classes on how to start a start-up. Mandatory.
12. We need a few tall thin Mentors. You know someone that made money two years ago with a tech that no longer exists.
That should do it.
In the mean time Jie and I will change tomorrow or the next day but not today. We have work to do. We are in the News Business or at least trying to help you be in the News Business.
1. We need an Ivy League founder.
2, He or she must have a thin appearance and or look like Ronald MacDonald.
3. Must have a relatively vague yet "OK this might work" business plan. (this will make it easy to convince the rest of robotic America to start using the tech.
4. We better have an attitude that work is the only thing and we should all sleep in the office except when our mom insist we come home for dinner.
5. Facial hair and a cool hair cut. Skip the facial hair for women but oops there really are not that many start-up women anyway.
6. Analytics, we need analytics, there has to be some type of data that we can collect and report that will eventually destroy humanity. We need this data so that we can make people do what we want them to do. You know like buy peanut butter or something. I mean what good is doing a business unless we can scrape the inside of a person cabeza.
7. We must think that what we are doing is fun and always smile.
8. Like you know ...like.....awesomeness. MUST HAVE!
9. Nerf balls and beer.
10.Collaboration, we need interns that we can steal ideas from , I mean collaborate with,
11. We need classes on how to start a start-up. Mandatory.
12. We need a few tall thin Mentors. You know someone that made money two years ago with a tech that no longer exists.
That should do it.
In the mean time Jie and I will change tomorrow or the next day but not today. We have work to do. We are in the News Business or at least trying to help you be in the News Business.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
The Nujobi Concept. Up the News!
New York, NY,December 14, 2011, In a way we are right in time and in tune in presenting to the world our new technology, Nujobi.com. After all today Time Magazine named "the protester" the person of the year for 2011 and rightfully so. In Egypt the people that filed to the streets to fight with hope for change made impact. The New York City protesters The occupy movement were going to say something.. eventually. Bravo to all people that feel that they have a voice now, and to all we say caution.
We have entered this new age with a variety of new stimuli presented to us through social media, like facebook, twitter, and other forms of traditional media. Sometimes I am sure that it may seem that some take strong positions without having any clear direction. This might be because this new crowd voice is not exactly what journalism or information has been meant to be.
This may seem like a contradiction considering that Nujobi.com is in some ways a social service to a community but we want to clarify Nujobi.com is definitely not a new social media tool. Nujobi is a marketplace where people bring curated information, to sell information , buy information after qualifying it , and where they publish information through our tablet publishing tool NewsHoTBox, currently for the iphone.
Nujobi is a little bit of the old and a little bit of the new. It takes what some old hippies can see as a need to deliver information and ties it together with some pretty good tech. The tech will never be good enough , it will always need to be improved but its a start. Nujobi is a beginning attempt to re-invent the news industry, stop plagiarism, and an open platform for those who believe they have at least one side of a story to present and get paid.
Get Paid for living! We will write more tomorrow.
www.nujobi.com
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nujobi&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5udWpvYmkiXQ..
http://itunes.apple.com/tw/app/nujobi/id476161535?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/tw/app/newshotbox/id479581744?mt=8
We have entered this new age with a variety of new stimuli presented to us through social media, like facebook, twitter, and other forms of traditional media. Sometimes I am sure that it may seem that some take strong positions without having any clear direction. This might be because this new crowd voice is not exactly what journalism or information has been meant to be.
This may seem like a contradiction considering that Nujobi.com is in some ways a social service to a community but we want to clarify Nujobi.com is definitely not a new social media tool. Nujobi is a marketplace where people bring curated information, to sell information , buy information after qualifying it , and where they publish information through our tablet publishing tool NewsHoTBox, currently for the iphone.
Nujobi is a little bit of the old and a little bit of the new. It takes what some old hippies can see as a need to deliver information and ties it together with some pretty good tech. The tech will never be good enough , it will always need to be improved but its a start. Nujobi is a beginning attempt to re-invent the news industry, stop plagiarism, and an open platform for those who believe they have at least one side of a story to present and get paid.
Get Paid for living! We will write more tomorrow.
www.nujobi.com
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nujobi&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5udWpvYmkiXQ..
http://itunes.apple.com/tw/app/nujobi/id476161535?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/tw/app/newshotbox/id479581744?mt=8
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