Friday, October 14, 2005

VC Alert - Technology Entrepreneur Interviews Galore

Okay so I'm changing my schedule around a bit now after spending the last 4 days of this week interviewing technology entrepreneurs. Look for the Q & A of each interview next week. I'll probably space them out 1 per day for the week. In the meantime I recommend checking out SearchViews recent interview with Robert Leathern of LinkedIn.

Look for interviews from the following entrepreneurs I put in the mshift hot seat over the past week.

Konstantin Guericke - VP of Marketing at LinkedIn
I've spoken with Konstantin before and he's always a plethora of information about social networking and technology in general. The interview went much longer than he or I intended but that's the nature of technology, it gets guys like us all hopped up.

Jim Fowler - CEO & CoFounder of JigSaw
Before the interview I didn't really understand JigSaw, now not only do I understand it but I'm enthusiastic that this service will revolutionize the way sme sales reps and mom and pop sales folks operate. Jigsaw has the potential to level the business contact / lead data playing field.

Tom Latinovich - Founder Jingle Networks and Free411
Tom use to be a VC at Sage Hill and has had a few successes in his day. His latest startup Free411 is so easy to understand it's not even funny. I can tell you that I'll never have a $.75 charge from Cingular on my cell phone again thanks to Tom.

Chris Simpkins - Developer of Pong, the new client-side pinging software.
This guy is kind of hard to understand. He says he's not interested in telling me where he works, he's not into marketing, he just loves open source software and wants to level the blogger playing field but he gives no details other than he lives in Baltimore and his wife is in the PR field and he got my contact info off of a list his wife's firm has in some filing cabinet somewhere. Oh well, the less we know the more interested we become.

Next week will be a very interesting week here at mshift, yes indeedy. I can tell you that I have decided to limit interviews to be only 2 days of my week so the rest of my week I can get some real work done. Whoever said blogging was easy has no idea what they're talking about.

Posted By Jason Dowdell at 01:03 PM
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National Transportation Safety Board recently divulged they had funded a project with the US auto makers for the past five years. The NTSB covertly funded a project whereby the auto makers were installing black boxes in four wheel drive pickup trucks in an effort to determine, in fatal accidents, the circumstances in the last 15 seconds before the crash.

They were surprised to find in 49 of the 50 states the last words of drivers in 61.2% of fatal crashes were, "Oh, Shit!"

Only the state of Texas was different, where 89.3% of the final words were, "Hey Y'all, hold my beer and watch this!"

Comments by Bush : Saturday, February 23, 2008 at 10:35 AM

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