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| | The May Report: 1/08/2010: Ophir Frieder, star comp. sci. prof. at IIT, bolts Chicago for Georgetown; Abdur Chowdhury, his preeminent doctoral student, is chief scientist at Twitter -- did you know that the search engine Summize came out of their lab?; Two U. of C. sophomores write Twitterature; Advanced Equities, Inc.; a garden hose to the sky
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| | January 8, 2010
The May Report: 1/08/2010: Ophir Frieder, star comp. sci. prof. at IIT, bolts Chicago for Georgetown; Abdur Chowdhury, his preeminent doctoral student, is chief scientist at Twitter -- did you know that the search engine Summize came out of their lab?; Two U. of C. sophomores write Twitterature; Advanced Equities, Inc.; a garden hose to the sky
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Scoop section:
-- Briefly noted, by Ron May
-- Len Bland on where Dave Carman is
-- Paul May: A favor to ask re: Harvey Daniels
-- Mike Maginity: Apology to Harvey Daniels
-- Introducing a Twitter for Credit Card Purchases -- what Phil Kaplan is up to
-- John P. Katsantonis: QUOTE CORRECTION....
-- Marty Glotzer
-- Jim Figliulo
-- INTERACTIVE DATA TO ACQUIRE CHICAGO BASED 7TICKS
-- Chicago Neighborhood Recognized with National Public Outreach Award
-- Rollyson on attending ITA v. TC
-- Daliah Saper on TC12
-- Harvey Tillis: No AMC party in 2009
-- Jeffrey Meredith: Warning to Lundin
-- Bernie Asher: Groupon for healthcare
-- Dick Reck on rock bands and Eric Olson's in particular
-- Neil Kane on the ITDA to ITA transition
-- Geoff Domoracki : MidVentures party in mid February?
-- Collin Canright: Was not at TC12
-- Ron tells Frank Gruber to watch CNBC special on AOL
-- Untemplater.com Launch Week!
-- Len Bland warns Ron on use of cane
-- The Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund
-- TechAmerica Applauds Defense in House of Small Business Exemption from SOX 404
-- TechAmerica Public Sector Calendar of Meetings & Events for January 2010
-- Ray Genellie responds to Ron's survey
-- Neil Kane responds to Ron' survey
-- Zenah Khawaja: Thanks for the heads up
-- Ron Kirschner on parties attended
-- Dennis Serio on parties attended
-- Dick Mulvihill on parties attended
-- Neil Kane was at the CEC
-- Roy Klein on parties attended
-- Tim O'Connor on Mentor Mastermind run by David Culver
-- Bob Geras does not recall an invite to the CEC
-- Adarsh Arora on the Executives' Club meeting on the 16th
-- Ron's note to Mike Carruth for his survey
-- Ron's note to Irv Shapiro for his survey
-- Ron's note to Julia Stamberger for his survey
[Editor's note: May here. Finally, I got almost a full day of work and have fallen asleep from fatigue. I got up at 10am and it is now 6:30pm and I am still going -- but not strong, fading fast in the stretch. This report is about half of the letters I have and there are many more stories. I also have not been able to look at new mail sent to ron@themayreport.com. More Monday.]
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The Scoop section:
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Briefly noted, by Ron May
* I received an anonymous call Tuesday morning, January 5, 2010. It was a voice mail so we had no conversation. The caller said he was wondering why the top nine brokers at Advanced Equities, Inc. have quit, why the general counsel has tendered his resignation, why the firm cannot raise any money and why no local media seem to be interested in the story. I will investigate and follow up very soon with you.
* I have figured for some time now that Rahm has to go. He is clearly in the crucible. Talk about being in the line of fire. And he is on the wrong side of some key issues such as financial reforms. Remember he made about $18MM as an IB while is was out of government. But they just reported on Chicago Week in Review that Rahm is considering running for Mayor of Chicago! This was reported by the Washington Post this week. Greg Hinz just said that Presidential Chiefs of Staff tend to not last long.
* One of the stars in the computer science department at IIT has left and has taken a presigious position at Georgetown. Ophir Frieder has just left Chicago and is now in Washington, D.C.
http://ir.iit.edu/~ophir
http://explore.georgetown.edu/news/?ID=25888
I had dinner with Ophir and his wife four or five years ago at "chez Connolly" in the 111 W. Chestnut building where Connolly lives and where Ophir and his wife lived.
The big point that Ophir made to me then was how IIT had been on the level of MIT at one time and was making a play to get back to that level, but it obviously has not panned out the way Ophir had hoped.
There is much more to the story. Ophir's star doctoral student at IIT was Abdur Chowdhury.
Here are a few of their joint publications.
http://ir.iit.edu/~ophir/pub.html
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O. Frieder, D. Grossman, A. Chowdhury, and G. Frieder, "Efficiency Considerations in Very Large Information Retrieval Servers," Journal of Digital Information, (British Computer Society), 1(5), April 2000.
P-J. Wan, G. Calinescu, L. Liu, and O. Frieder, "Grooming of Arbitrary Traffic in SONET/WDM Rings," IEEE J. of Selected Area on Communication, 18(10), October 2000.
A. Chowdhury, O. Frieder, and P-J. Wan, "On the Design, Development, Deployment, and Network Survivability Analysis of the Dynamic Routing System Protocol," Journal of Supercomputing, 21(3), March 2002.
A. Chowdhury, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, and M. McCabe, "Collection Statistics for Fast Duplicate Document Detection," ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 20(2), April 2002.
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, O. Frieder, and D. Grossman, "Temporal Analysis of a Very Large Topically Categorized Web Query Log," Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, 58(2), January 2007.
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman, O. Frieder, and N. Goharian, "On Fusion of Effective Retrieval Strategies in the Same Information Retrieval System", Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, 55(10), July 2004.
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The Twitter search engine, Summize, was developed by Addur Chowdhury in Ophir's lab. Gee, I hope I'm right about that. :-)
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/summize_likely_acquired_by_twi.php
Abdur is now the chief scientist at Twitter.
http://twitter.com/abdur
Name Abdur Chowdhury
Location Foggy Place
Web http://ir.iit.edu...
Bio Chief Scientist Twitter
Following 372
Followers 251,284
Listed 333
And on top of that, as I understand it, Google pays Twitter $25MM a year for use of the engine.
http://gigaom.com/2008/07/15/twitter-summize-deal-confirmed/
http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2009/12/21/twitters-price-for-tweets-25-million/
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Twitter's price for Tweets: $25 million
Dec 21, 2009 13:32 EST
Advertising | Google | Microsoft | search | Twitter
The last time the world had a look at Twitter's financial books, the company was targeting a meager $400,000 in revenue for the third quarter of 2009 and $4 million in the fourth quarter.
But that information was based on documents stolen from Twitter by a hacker and republished by the blog TechCrunch.
And it was before Twitter, the popular microblogging service that allows users to broadcast short, 140-character text messages across the Internet, had inked monumental deals with search giants Google and Microsoft.
The companies have kept mum about the financial terms of the deals, which will allow Tweets to appear in Google and Microsoft's search results. But people familiar with the situation have told Reuters that money did change hands as a result of the deals and the blog AllThingsDigital previously reported that the search deals could be worth several million dollars apiece.
It turns out the search deals were worth $25 million, according to a report in Business Week on Monday. Google coughed up $15 million and Microsoft paid $10 million, the report said, citing two anonymous sources.
The deals will allow Twitter to finish 2009 as a profitable company, and comes amid ongoing efforts at the company to cut costs.
Twitter declined to comment on financial terms of the deals.
That's an important validation for Twitter, which recently raised $100 million in financing at a $1 billion valuation, but whose money-making potential has until now been a purely hypothetical exercise.
The search deals provide a nice financial foundation for the company. The question now is whether will Twitter be solely dependent on Google and Microsoft for its livelihood, or if the company can develop its own revenue-generating businesses, such as advertising and premium services, to provide a new source of growth.
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* Nathan Myhrvold http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Myhrvold is an advocate for the idea that to solve the global warming problem is to in effect replicate the effects of volcanos on the atmosphere by putting a giant garden hose into the sky.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2511875/nathan_myhrvolds_anti_global_warming.html?cat=15
http://www.usposttoday.com/nathan-myhrvold-global-warming-approach/
http://www.sodahead.com/world-news/nathan-myhrvolds-solution-to-global-warming-is-to-reduce-carbon-emissions-from-the-atmosphere-on-cn/question-784601/
He appeared on Charlie Rose and I saw the show. This comment struck me.
Nathan Myhrvold
".... is one of the reasons that I am bothering to talk to you."
I guess that there is no ego here.
* One of the firms that presented on Tuesday, January 5th at the BNC Capital Group is developing cancer treatment techniques (focusing on breast) is Quantum Immunologics. I talked to President Josh Coughlin. They have 27 patients enrolled in their PhaseI/II clinicals. They have a $22MM valuation on a fully diluted basis with a single class of common stock and no debt outstanding.
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Quantum Immunologics (QI) ProActive HavRx Company Profile
ProActiveNewsRoom.com ♦ 814.241.4138 ♦ By Mike Havrilla on 1/2/10 ♦ Page 1
Quantum Immunologics (QI) is a privately held company that is dedicated to improving the treatment outcome and quality of life for cancer patients through the research, development, and commercialization of innovative, cost-effective therapeutic and diagnostic products. QI's scientific approach links the immunogenic and invasive properties of malignant cancers with a specific protein known as oncofetal antigen immature laminin receptor protein (OFA) that is uniquely expressed on cancer cells, but not found on normal cells outside of early fetal development.
QI Home Page: www.quantumimmunologics.com
2202 N. West Shore Blvd., Suite 200 P.O. Box 20727 Tampa, FL 33623-0727 P: 813.849.7885 or 1.866.213.4594
ProActive News Room Landing Page for Quantum Immunologics
www.proactivenewsroom.com/quantum-immunologics
The ProActive News Room website for QI includes an updated compilation of blog commentaries, news feeds, videos, articles, presentations, and report downloads.
QI's approach to cancer immunotherapy involves sensitizing the dendritic cells (which present foreign antigens to the immune system) from a patient's blood to educate and direct the immune system to attack malignant tumor cells in a targeted effort to eradicate or stabilize the disease. This integrated approach to the treatment, diagnosis, and monitoring of cancer is being developed to create novel, individualized products and services that offer a high rate of efficacy and minimal side effects by harnessing the innate power of the immune system in a targeted manner against the disease.
Quantum Immunologics (QI) ProActive HavRx Company Profile ProActiveNewsRoom.com ♦ 814.241.4138 ♦ By Mike Havrilla on 1/2/10 ♦ Page 1
Quantum Immunologics (QI) is a privately held company that is dedicated to improving the treatment outcome and quality of life for cancer patients through the research, development, and commercialization of innovative, cost-effective therapeutic and diagnostic products. QI's scientific approach links the immunogenic and invasive properties of malignant cancers with a specific protein known as oncofetal antigen immature laminin receptor protein (OFA) that is uniquely expressed on cancer cells, but not found on normal cells outside of early fetal development.
QI Home Page: www.quantumimmunologics.com
2202 N. West Shore Blvd., Suite 200 P.O. Box 20727 Tampa, FL 33623-0727 P: 813.849.7885 or 1.866.213.4594
ProActive News Room Landing Page for Quantum Immunologics
www.proactivenewsroom.com/quantum-immunologics
The ProActive News Room website for QI includes an updated compilation of blog commentaries, news feeds, videos, articles, presentations, and report downloads.
QI's approach to cancer immunotherapy involves sensitizing the dendritic cells (which present foreign antigens to the immune system) from a patient's blood to educate and direct the immune system to attack malignant tumor cells in a targeted effort to eradicate or stabilize the disease. This integrated approach to the treatment, diagnosis, and monitoring of cancer is being developed to create novel, individualized products and services that offer a high rate of efficacy and minimal side effects by harnessing the innate power of the immune system in a targeted manner against the disease.
-----Original Message-----
Hi Ron,
Here you go. Have a good weekend.
Josh
Josh Coughlin
President
Quantum Immunologics
cell 404-384-4497
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* Two sophomore students at The University of Chicago have taken about 80 books they have read and created a book called Twitterature.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/01/twitterature-alexander-aciman-emmett-rensin
http://www.flipkart.com/twitterature-alexander-aciman-emmett-rensin/0143117327-xow3fkm34b
http://www.amazon.com/Alexander-Aciman/e/B002R0B33Y
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emmett-rensin/twitterature-university-o_b_414752.html
Emmett RensinAuthor of Twitterature: The World's Greatest Works In 20 Tweets Or Fewer
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After more than three thousand years of ceaseless human progress, Western Civilization reportedly died this week from injuries to its most vital of organs: Literature.
According to highly-placed sources in the usual academic and knee-jerk communities, "Twitterature," a just-published book by two 19-year-old U Chicago undergrads, Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin, has, without provocation, kicked all that is sacred about the written word in its proverbial scrotum. The damage to Literature -- a hallmark of mankind's capacity to imagine and self-reflect, and to preserve both for future generations -- led to a system-wide breakdown. The modern world lost its most basic intellectual bearings and soon ceased to function.
Western Civ's death came as a surprise to many, including those who profit from predicting its demise and men wearing warning signs on street corners in New Yorker cartoons. But why now? Our vast literary canon has bravely endured despite centuries of relentless abuse by court jesters, wandering minstrels, and mimes, and lately from television, the internets, a separate Advice bestseller list in the New York Times, and novels that blamed the world's ills on secret Catholic plots to protect the Church -- not to mention the substitution in schools of self-esteem courses for critical thinking skills.
According to inside sources, the final blow came without warning on December 29th, 2009, when Penguin Books -- until then one of Literature's foremost protectors through its preservation and promotion of the Classics - released "Twitterature: The World's Greatest Works in 20 Tweets or Less" in the United States and Canada. The catastrophe was understandably unexpected since a slightly shorter version (thanks to weaker legal protection for parody) had been published without incident in England, the Commonwealth, and beyond, in early November 2009.
At that time, Twitterature sold briskly off the shelves and found a welcome niche in libraries and Christmas stockings worldwide. Comely young women with provocative accents tweeted their approval and LOLs online. The authors planned lengthy book tours to foreign lands. All seemed well in the world.
Yet in the still of bookshelves and nightstands everywhere, this hilariously unassuming literary parody quietly began to chip away at the foundations of great art and moral uprightness, all the while biding its time for a chance to take root in the fertile and chronically under-securitized American and Canadian minds, and spread like a retrovirus through civilization's body.
But how did it happen? The authors, who claim to have read all 81 of the great works they limed, lovingly re-imagined everything from Homer, Shakespeare, and Joyce to Tolstoy, Austen and Rowling in the Twitter haiku. Each great work was narrated by its protagonist in 20-or-fewer-tweet narratives. Think of Pip or Scout or Humbert Humbert with iPhones and Twitter accounts.
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May again. Lest you think that these are just any two 19-year-olds, think again. Alexander Aciman's father Andre Aciman is a renown Proust scholar who teaches at CUNY so Alexander grew up in the rarefied atmosphere of high literature.
http://www.amazon.com/Proust-Project-Andre-Aciman/dp/0374238324
http://www.amazon.com/Proust-Project-Andre-Aciman/dp/0374238324
He is pictured here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/books/review/DErasmo.t.html
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
By André Aciman.
248 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $23.
I always have mixed emotions about this issue. I am not trying to take anything away from the two teenagers whose work should be honored. But people often don't realize that young stars grow up around older stars. When I was in that same college, one person like Alexander Aciman was John Podhoretz whose father Norman Podhoretz was an established name in the New York literary world.
* More people who were or were not at the MIT-EF party
Todd Allen and Robert Jacobi not at MIT-EF
Lindo St. Angel
President
LinTek Consulting LLC
lindo@att.net
Dick Mulvihill
John Moran
Jim Orrico
Tom Lemanski, Dave Geraghty, Joe O'Malley, Tom Weiser, Chuck Corush, Dave Fabish, Bill Burnett, jon paul, D. John Mascarenhas
But Paul Fricke was there, hiding from me.
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From: Paul Fricke PFRICKE@sbhic.com
Subject: RE: The May Report: 12/16/2009: Gimme calcium, gimme omega 3, gimme pro-biotics; The brand Gimme owned by BrightSpot to sell Fri. for a half mil in structured deal; Executive's Club gets 300 for panel on stimulus & gov. plans; peer to patent review; MIT-E
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:56:47 -0600
To: The May Report ron@themayreport.com
Ron,
Just FYI, I was there. You should not assume we all want your attention.
"Old farts" don't die, they just slowly fade away.
Paul
Paul H Fricke, CFA
Senior Portfolio Manager
Segall Bryant & Hamill
312 474-4122 (direct)
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May here. Yes, Paul, I now remember, you were the guy who kept avoiding me and would not tell me your name.
* Write-ups, the CEC holiday party at Lumen on Dec. 17th
Off my tape:
Jerry Roper
Howerton arriving at 6:35pm,
with Sarah Habansky and Mary Pat Glynn who were joined at the hip all night
Jason Jacobsohn who told me he could not make the MIT-EF party and I know he was not at Tech Cocktail.
Zishan Ahmad, Software Engineer,
Parus Interactive
Philippe Lavie
Dave Baker of IIT
Guy from Clear Communications said they just launched December 1st. Office here in Rosemont
Scott Issen
Jason Felger, a very snazzy dresser
Scott Leonard scott@sleonardlaw.com
Wes Shepherd
Nik Rokop
David Weinstein, whom I asked about that meeting I saw on September 25th. He said that the people from TechStars wanted to see what was going on in Chicago and he is not ready to announce anything. Plus, when I told him I had heard that there is no champion for this initiative, he did not deny it. He mentioned that they also wanted to see what was going on with technology coming out of universities.
Carolyn Nowinski
Scott Glickson talking to Sarah Habansky
Mary Pat talking to Wes Shepherd
Lon Chow, and while he
Jed Abernethy talking to John Nix
Warren Bent of InCharge Systems
Kevin Willer of Google, and he had to leave because he has a final exam in corporate finance at ChicagoBooth Friday afternoon and Jason Felger is in that class too.
Jason Felger
Adam Koopersmith of New World Ventures and you know, they have moved their offices to Wacker Drive.
Troy Henikoff
Brian Crummy
Scott Issen
Joe Jablonski
Sarah and Mary Pat whom I was sitting next to said I was like Perez Hilton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perez_Hilton
I was interrogating them on the departure of Margaret Plett, but they said there were no problems.
Meg Herman of the WBDC
Gil Herman, her husband
Kapil -- and these observations were made while I watched him from a seat on the couch against the wall on the left side of the room from the point of view of the entrance -- light blue shirt, no tie, shirt hanging out, no jacket, wolfing the pizza, women flocking to him in numbers, at least one brunette and one blonde at the same time, and in fairness, they seem to be throwing themselves at him, I guess a somewhat boorish Chicago playboy, need I go on? And he appears to have put on some weight.
Burke Fetcher, a former physics teacher, with www.backstopsolutions.com, a hedge fund software firm. Burke is relatively new to the firm which has 40-50 people, and is a Java developer.
But I looked them up and do recognize the name of Andy Pruitt, the CTO
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http://www.backstopsolutions.com/company/bios.shtml
Management Team
Jeremie Bacon
President and CEO
In May 2003, Jeremie Bacon co-founded Backstop Solutions Group, and since then, he has guided Backstop to become a leader in the arena of Hedge Fund software.
Jeremie's industry experience gives him a unique understanding of business systems, services and best practices for the asset management community. Prior to founding Backstop, he spent several years at the Equities division of Goldman Sachs, where he serviced traditional and alternative institutional asset management firms. He is a board member and strategic advisor to several companies in the fund management and investment banking universe. Additionally, he serves on the committee for the Midwest Chapter of Hedge Funds Care, a not-for-profit group within the hedge fund community. Jeremie earned a BA at Brigham Young University as well as a graduate research diploma from The University of Tsukuba, Japan.
Andy Pruitt
Chief Technology Officer
As Chief Technology Officer, Andy Pruitt is responsible for the design and construction of Backstop's technology platform. Andy came to Backstop from a career as an Enterprise Software Consultant, particularly to the Financial Services sector. Prior to consulting, he helped found DigitalWork.com (a Draper Fisher Jurvetson company), where he was the Director of Internet Architecture. Andy is an active member of the Open Source software community, particularly in the Java programming language. He earned a BA from the University of Chicago.
Michael Boeke
Director of New Products
As Director of New Products, Michael is responsible for guiding new products from concept to market, and oversees the development and daily operations of the InvestorBridge platform and related services. Michael is a veteran of multiple start-up ventures where he gained broad experience designing, developing, and marketing web-based software applications. He was instrumental in the development of the CarePages service, which is now part of Everyday Health. Michael holds a BFA in Visual Communication Design and Computer Imaging from the University of Dayton.
Chris Brown
Director of Engineering
Our Engineering Director, Chris Brown (sorry R&B fans, not that one), is responsible for the development and daily operation of Backstop's software. Before joining Backstop, he was a systems architect and group manager at Hewitt Associates. At Hewitt he was charged with creating a platform, tools and processes to enable scalable and profitable delivery of a human resources outsourcing business serving very large multinational corporations. Chris earned a BA, summa cum laude, from Bradley University.
Deborah Hill
Director of Professional Services
As Director of Professional Services, Deborah leads three teams of consultants specializing in Implementation, Accounting and Custom Development. She brings over 20 years of progressive management experience in Professional Services to the position. Prior to joining Backstop Solutions, Deborah was a Global Practice Director with Kronos and Vice President of Consulting Resources with PeopleSoft. Deborah holds a BA in Economic Theory from Wheaton College, an MBA from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and a certificate in International Business from Cambridge University.
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May again. Continuing on our journey,
Zenah Khawaja
Michael Gruber, still with Cornerstone, but looking awfully scruffy with his beard
Jerome Cheatham of Clearwire
Linda Darragh of ChicagoBooth Polsky Center
Maura O'Hara of the IVCA
Kaarina Koskenalusta of the Executives Club of Chicago and she talked to Howerton
Alex Rhodan, entrepreneurship teacher at the School of Entrepreneurship at South Shore, and I walked him over to talk to Howerton
Dean DeLisle
Ben Halperin
Darren Green, lawyer and teaches at NU Law School, clients include Meghan Hoover who has been there in the past but not this year and Michael Quintos who was also not there
Greg Rudin of Media Bank and he has been a regular, either working for Gladwin or Keywell.
Linda Darragh and Lon Chow talking to each other
Jasmine Moore
Rudin, Darragh and Henikoff are talking for about twenty minutes -- must be a height thing
Philippe Lavie
Wes Shepherd is talking to Lon Chow
Matt Brown from KMZR
Some guy has his arm "around" Carolyn Nowinski, I think it was the guy with the white shirt and pink tie who had been talking to Kapil, but she said he was just a friend and not her husband. In fact, a number of people she was talking to were just friends, she said.
Three people, I figure they were putting me on, because they told me they had left Groupon but could not talk about it.
Sam Guren, Hyde Park Angels
Larry Hayward, The Venture Lab
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There but I did not see them
Neil Kane
Ryan Humphries
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Who was NOT there?
Michael Rosenthal
Arsen Avakian
Dan Ratner
Stel Valavanas
Adarsh Arora
Kris Hammond
Larry Birnbaum
Bob Geras
Mark Glennon
Chris Gladwin who has not been seen in ages at any event
Scott Miller
Bruce Montgomery
Art Mertes
Bret Maxwell
J. B. Pritzker
Matt McCall
Dennis Serio
Tim Lavengood
John Mascarenhas
Michael Krauss and where has he been in general?
Going over the list, I started thinking about the connection between entrepreneurs who show up at CEC parties and the seeking of funds.
This lead me to create a preliminary survey and I went back to the TMR archives to figure out who was there in 2006 and 2007 and compared it to the attendance this last December.
Some of my letters to local entrepreneurs are below in this report and I will give you my data on previous years' attendance. Anna should have the cards from the CEC typed up this weekend. I will have my more systematic look at attendance at the CEC next week.
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Len Bland on where Dave Carman is
Subject: RE: Len, was David Carman at the meeting on Tuesday?
Date: 1/8/2010 2:52:39 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: len_bland@conceptequity.com
To: ronaldmay@aol.com
Ron,
David was on a personal trip to India.
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To: Len_Bland@conceptequity.com
Subject: Len, was David Carman at the meeting on Tuesday?
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Paul May: A favor to ask re: Harvey Daniels
Subject: Favor to Ask regarding Harvey Daniels, feel free to print this
Date: 12/16/2009 9:41:10 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: paul@paulmayassociates.com
To: ronaldmay@aol.com
CC: harvey.daniels@gmail.com
Ron, rarely do I get involved with your matters but dissing Harvey Daniels and implying he's a drunk is over the top, for even you.
YOU obviously don't know Harvey very well and seem to like to poke him whenever you can. I'm asking you, as someone who has knows Harvey for a very long time, to stop writing about him in your derogatory ways. You owe him big time apology.
Harvey has been a major asset to the technical scene in Chicago for years, has helped numerous people get jobs, is one of the best networkers in this city putting hundreds of people together and should be applauded for all the gratuitous work he's done.
Why you feel you need to belittle one of the real good guys on the tech scene, defeats what you're fighting for, building a better Tech Community. You want Chicagoans to come together and Harvey truly helps do this. Slamming people, like Harvey, may make them not want to attend events or share information which defeats us building the better community,
Remember to keep your sarcastic commentary to yourself and stick to the facts, JUST THE FACTS.
Didn't your mother tell you , if you can't say something nice about someone...... ;-) or did you miss that the first 53 years of your life she's been saying that?
Cheers,
Paul
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----- Forwarded Message -----
To: paul@paulmayassociates.com
From: Harvey Daniels <harvey.daniels@gmail.com>
Sent: 12/15/2009 6:45:53 PM
Subject: Favor to Ask
Hi, Paul. I hope you're all doing well and enjoying the holidays, too.
Ok...here's the favor. Would you please ask your brother Ron to stop "slamming" me every time he sees me. I thought I covered this with him effectively last time I saw him, when I actually asked him not to do that, but this was apparently not effective.
In yesterday's May Report (12/14), he said that I was at TechCocktail, as drunk as I could be, in my red sweater on the dance floor. The only problem here is that I wasn't drunk, or even close. In fact (I'm embarrassed to admit this), I've NEVER been drunk. I didn't even have my first alcoholic drink until I was 31, and that's only because Kathy was tired of always drinking a glass of wine alone while I had a 7-up.
Normally, I wouldn't even bother with this e-mail. I'd just ignore it, as I do all his other comments about me.. But as you know, I'm currently looking for a job, and Ron certainly isn't helping me, and could have a negative effect on my search.
I know Ron probably just thinks he's being funny in his way, but if that's true, it's at MY expense.
However, I can't consume myself attempting to figure out his motivation. I'd just like to be able to attend events where he's present without getting a bunch of e-mails saying "Did you see what Ron May said about you today?" I hope you can help me with this? Feel free to forward this e-mail to Ron, if it's easier for you.
Maybe he'll even print it.
Thanks.
Harvey
C: 312-953-4962
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Mike Maginity: Apology to Harvey Daniels
From: Mike Maginity mike@makropartners.com
Subject: Apology to Harvey Daniels
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:58:12 -0600
To: ron@themayreport.com
Ron,
I think that your powers of unbiased observation may have failed you when you described Harvey Daniels to be drunk at Tech Cocktail. Maybe you were just joking around (this was an event with the word "Cocktail" in it, after all). It was an inaccurate and hurtful comment. Harvey is one of the rare networkers in Chicago who contributes and shares without expecting return. He is always professional, supportive, welcoming, and positive in his interaction with others; but not ever drunk. I am hoping that if you publish this letter in your report it might serve as an apology to Harvey.
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Ron May here. Harvey, I do owe you an apology. We have known each other about twenty years and yet I have to admit, I really don't know you very well. I completely misinterpreted what I was observing at the party, TC12.
Harvey, too much of my relationship with you back in the day was intermediated by folks like Jeff B. and you and he are definitely not cut of the same cloth.
You should not be carrying water for people like Jeff B. whose reputation we won't go into today, but it is my fault here for an egregious case of guilt by association. I will work to make things better in the future.
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Introducing a Twitter for Credit Card Purchases -- what Phil Kaplan is up to
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/business/smallbusiness/17blippy.html?_r=2&8dpc
Introducing a Twitter for Credit Card Purchases
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Published: December 16, 2009
Philip Kaplan earned notoriety and profit a decade ago with a site that chronicled the implosion of the Internet bubble. Now he is back with a project that seems sure to get attention again: Blippy, a soon-to-start online social network that lets you share details of your credit card purchases with friends or strangers.
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You're the Boss: Would You Twitter Your Credit Card Purchases? Mr. Kaplan's earlier venture, an obscenely named Web site that parodied FastCompany magazine, chronicled the dot-com carnage in 2000 and 2001. Though that site trashed failing start-ups, Mr. Kaplan was an entrepreneur himself: he made money by devising a self-service tool that allowed advertisers to place ads on the site. The tool worked so well that in 2002, he spun it off to create AdBrite, which places ads on more than 100,000 affiliated sites and had 2008 revenue of $31.6 million.
Still chairman and a major shareholder, Mr. Kaplan, now 34. left his chief executive role at AdBrite last year, turning its management over to a hired chief executive and freeing himself to noodle. Most of his tinkering is based on the potential of social media sites like Twitter, where he goes by the name Pud. In June, he became entrepreneur in residence at the venture capital firm Charles River Ventures, but after just half a year, he left to work full time on Blippy.
Currently in invitation-only beta testing and headed for a public introduction in 2010, Blippy reports your credit card purchases (for example, "Alice spent $47.60 at Macy's") to others, as if the transactions were tweets on Twitter or Facebook status updates.
Mr. Kaplan spoke about Blippy earlier this week. A condensed version of the conversation follows.
Q. Before we start - on Aug. 30, you tweeted: "Getting married. About to walk down aisle. Putting phone on vibrate." Really?
A. Yes, that was true. I was about to walk down, and at the last moment I realized my phone was still on, so I tweeted that out real quick. My wife is also a fan of technology, so she appreciated it.
Q. So how does Blippy work?
A. The idea is that most Americans have two or three credit cards in their wallet. You sign one of them up to be the social card - it's connected to the site. The other cards you keep private. If I use my public card at a Starbucks, for instance, all my friends know that I'm at the Starbucks, and they can come and see me, or whatever.
Q. And you wouldn't need to announce that via Twitter - it just shows up online?
A. We call it passive sharing.
Q. But even on my public card, I'd control who sees what I'm buying?
A. You can make your account public or private, like on Twitter where you can protect your stream and only people you approve will see it. And it's only going to show the charges you want it to show. Some people are only sharing their iTunes or Amazon purchases. The cool thing about iTunes and Amazon is that you can show the exact product that you're buying, not just the amount.
Q. So you're not going to sell me out when I buy a Wang Chung song online?
A. You won't have to worry about any private information being sold.
Q. Talk about conspicuous consumption. This probably isn't for everyone.
A. I guess you need to have the right temperament if you to want to blog and tweet and Facebook and all that. It's just another way of saying, "Here's what I'm doing," or "Here's where I am," or "Here's a band that I'm really into" - obviously, because I just bought five of their albums.
There are roughly 100 people using the site now, friends of ours. It's going to be invite-only for a while. The best thing is the unintended coincidences that happen. My brother spent $4,000 at Crutchfield, an electronics store. I asked him what he bought, and he said a TV. I said: "I'm in the market for a TV. That looks a little expensive, but tell me about it." He had done all this research - who knew? I wouldn't have known which of my trusted friends to ask about it.
Q. Is this a Twitter app?
A. It's not currently tied in with any other social network. It looks similar to Twitter but our data is structured. Unlike a Tweet or a Facebook status update, every "Blip" - as we're calling them - is the same format, which is: "X spent Y dollars at Z." You can click on the Z to see who else spent money at Z. Or you can click on the X to see what else that person is buying.
Q. So you can aggregate spending data?
A. Yeah, there's a lot of interesting data we're hoping to provide to users. For instance, you can see people paying different amounts for the same thing: phone bills, cable bills, haircuts, gym memberships.
Q. Won't marketers be able to see what people are buying and aim ads at your users?
A. Not any differently than they can see what you're Tweeting or what you're blogging about. It's probably more interesting to marketers, but that's not our focus. Our focus is just in making it a really fun and interesting place for our users.
Q. You left your job at Charles River Ventures to do this. What kind of funding do you have?
A. We're not making any funding announcements yet. But obviously we came out of C.R.V.
Q. How did Blippy get started?
A. I met the other two Blippy co-founders at C.R.V., Ashvin Kumar and Chris Estreich. They originally built the concept, and I was popping into their office every day, trading ideas. The more I worked on it, the more excited I got, to the point where I couldn't think about anything else and basically begged to work on it together. Now I'm full-time Blippy.
Q. Is there a revenue model cooked into the plan?
A. We're evaluating different ways to generate revenue, but right now we're just focusing on making the best product we can.
Q. Do you ever think about starting your parody site back up? There would be plenty of material these days.
A. I guess I don't have that negative feeling that I had back then. Back then, I saw a lot of money being wasted, a lot of ridiculous companies. But I'm kind of liking what I see now. And the failures these days are banks and car companies. It's not so funny now.
Q. But people lost jobs at pets.com and you had fun with that.
A. Well, it's never funny when people lose jobs, and that was kind of the whole point of [the parody site]. It was kind of the voice of the worker. But I don't see mistakes like that anymore, companies like furniture.com where they would spend more to ship the furniture than they would make on the furniture - so the more they sold, the faster they would go out of business. I think people have learned their lessons. The companies that don't have revenue streams today, it's by choice.
Q. How is Blippy different from the kind of company that your site would have destroyed?
A. [That site] covered companies that were spending millions and doing big layoffs. A recurring theme is, "This company could be run by just three programmers and a pot of coffee." Which is exactly what we're doing. [That site] would be proud.
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John P. Katsantonis: QUOTE CORRECTION....
From: John P. Katsantonis jpkattt@att.net
Subject: QUOTE CORRECTION....
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:14:21 -0600
To: The May Report ron@themayreport.com
Actually, it goes "Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad . . ." (Latin: Quem deus vult perdere, dementat prius) As in ". . . insane," although "Angry-as-hell" would apply as well, in this case. Perhaps for both sides.
The phrase, which appeared originally in the Greek play "Medea" by Euripides, describes Medea's descent (and her awareness of this descent as it occurs) into self-destructive madness where she kills her own children in order to hurt her ex-lover. (Which also may be where the phrase "Mad Greek" comes from...if nothing else, there's certainly the "cutting-one's-nose-off-to-spite-one's-face aspect, which is something of a cautionary tale here, again, perhaps for both sides....)
I'm just sayin'...jk
From: "John P. Katsantonis" <jpkattt@att.net>
Subject: QUOTE CORRECTION....
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:12:47 -0600
To: The May Report <ron@themayreport.com>
Actually, it goes "Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad . . ." (Latin: Quem deus vult perdere, dementat prius) As in ". . . insane," although "Angry-as-hell" would apply as well, in this case. Perhaps for both sides.
The phrase, which appeared originally in the Greek play "Medea" by Euripides, describes Medea's descent (and her awareness of this descent as it occurs) into self-destructive madness where she kills her own children in order to hurt her ex-lover. (Which also may be where the phrase "Mad Greek" comes from...perhaps....)
I'm just sayin'...jk
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Marty Glotzer
From: mglotz@aol.com
Subject: Re: The May Report: 12/14/2009: Six events last week, too many stories: Bettr...
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:53:38 EST
To: ron@themayreport.com
Ron May Martin Glotzer of the Fred Smart Connectivity group says your BIGGER than ITA keep going
In a message dated 12/14/2009 12:46:29 P.M. Central Standard Time, ron@themayreport.com writes:
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Jim Figliulo
From: Jim Figliulo jimfigliulo@gmail.com
Subject: Re: The May Report: 12/14/2009: Six events last week, too many stories: BettrAT; Fig1.com, Intelligent Generation, SeatQuest, MidVentures, Malachi Leopold, Coin That Phrase; Margaret Plett leaves the ITA; Eric Olson gone from TransFS; Murdock gone from NanoBusiness Alliance
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:49:07 -0600
To: The May Report ron@themayreport.com
Hey Ron,
Thanks for the write up! I'd just like to point out that Fig1's URL is www.fig1inc.com right now. It will become Fig1.us this week with a brand new look and feel.
Thanks again,
Jim
On Dec 14, 2009, at 12:41 PM, The May Report wrote:
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INTERACTIVE DATA TO ACQUIRE CHICAGO BASED 7TICKS
From: Karen Bertoli kbertoli@7ticks.com
Subject: RE: The May Report: 12/14/2009: Six events last week, too many stories: BettrAT; Fig1.com, Intelligent Generation, SeatQuest, MidVentures, Malachi Leopold, Coin That Phrase; Margaret Plett leaves the ITA; Eric Olson gone from TransFS; Murdock gone from Na
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:48:07 -0800
To: The May Report ron@themayreport.com
Hey Ron: Check this out below:
INTERACTIVE DATA TO ACQUIRE CHICAGO BASED 7TICKS
Addition of High Performance Trading Networks and Managed Services Provider Advances Company's Strategy to Increase Penetration in Latency Sensitive Trading Markets
BEDFORD, Mass. - December 14, 2009 - Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire 7ticks, LLC, an innovative provider of electronic trading networks and managed services. The transaction is expected to be completed in early 2010, contingent upon closing conditions.
This acquisition represents an important element in Interactive Data's strategy to address the latency sensitive trading needs of its institutional customers. Acquiring 7ticks will accelerate Interactive Data's plans to increase the flexibility, agility and resiliency of its network infrastructure, thereby supporting a broader range of high-quality direct exchange access and consolidated datafeed services.
7ticks specializes in providing a growing base of proprietary trading groups, clearing firms, global investment banks, brokers, market makers, hedge funds and independent software vendors with direct exchange access, proximity hosting, and support services for facilitating ultra low latency electronic trading of North American derivatives, options and commodities securities. 7ticks distinguishes itself through industry leading network performance, reliability and monitoring, which can help provide customers with greater insight and transparency into their network connectivity and lower their cost of ownership. The company is privately owned and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with hosting facilities in Chicago, the New York area, London and Frankfurt.
In recent years, financial institutions have increasingly moved to evolve their trading operations to take advantage of changes in the financial markets and continual advances in technology by deploying sophisticated automated trading programs. Successful execution of these trading programs requires ultra low latency connectivity between an institution's trading systems and a broad range of stock exchanges and trading venues. According to Tabb Group, a leading financial markets research and advisory firm, the global market for low latency connectivity services for direct exchange access is expected to grow from approximately $1.4 billion in 2009 to over $2.0 billion by 2012.
Interactive Data expects to retain all of 7ticks' 42 full-time employees, including its leadership team. The 7ticks business will be operated as part of Interactive Data's newly formed Real-Time Market Data and Trading Solutions Group, which is led by Jeffrey Banker (see separate announcement also issued today). Services from 7ticks will be marketed as Interactive Data 7ticks following the acquisition's completion. 7ticks is in the process of increasing its U.S. equities coverage and has plans to expand further into Asia and Europe in the coming twelve months.
"Increasing our penetration in the electronic trading sector is one of our top long-term strategic priorities, and we believe that acquiring 7ticks will enable us to make significant progress in this area," stated Ray D'Arcy, Interactive Data's president and chief executive officer. "Over a relatively short period of time, 7ticks has built a world-class, ultra low latency network infrastructure that is attracting a growing number of leading-edge institutional customers. We are excited by the opportunities we see to elevate our value proposition to our global customer base by combining our low latency consolidated market data services with ultra low latency managed connectivity from 7ticks."
"We are extremely pleased to join forces with Interactive Data," stated Joe Bigane, managing director for 7ticks. "During the past few years, we have generated significant momentum in the marketplace and we are well positioned to build on this initial success. With Interactive Data's extensive range of complementary world-class offerings, strong customer relationships, extensive global distribution channels and financial resources, we believe that we can accelerate our growth as we expand our customer base and build out our infrastructure."
Assuming the transaction closes in early 2010, Interactive Data anticipates that the acquired business will be accretive to earnings by 2011 through a combination of planned revenue growth and operational synergies.
Interactive Data Corporation Forward-looking and Cautionary Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Federal securities laws, and is subject to the safe-harbor created by such Act and laws. Forward-looking statements include our statements discussing future financial conditions, results or projections, including statements relating to (i) the anticipated impact of the 7ticks acquisition on our business, including any impact on our earnings and cash flow, and in particular that the acquired business will be accretive to earnings by 2011; (ii) our plans to retain all of the 7ticks employees; (iii) our plans to achieve operational synergies and revenue growth; (iv) the impact that the acquisition will have on our network infrastructure; (v) 7ticks' plans to expand its coverage in the U.S., Asia and Europe over the coming 12 months; and (vi) the anticipated growth of the global market for low latency connectivity services for direct exchange access. These statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Such factors include: the acquisition may not close on a timely basis or at all; we may not be successful in our efforts to expand the 7ticks infrastructure globally; we may not be successful in our efforts to expand the 7ticks customer base or obtain the consent of all 7ticks customers to the assignment of the 7ticks contracts by the seller to us; and we may not be able to retain key employees of 7ticks. Other factors include, but are not limited to: (i) the risk of regulatory reform that could impact the global market for low latency connectivity services for direct exchange access; (ii) a possible decline in activity levels in the global securities markets; (iii) the presence of competitors with greater financial resources than ours and their strategic response to our services and products; (iv) new offerings by competitors or new technologies that could cause our products or services to become less competitive or obsolete; and (v) other factors identified in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We undertake no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
About 7ticks
7ticks is the driving force in high performance trading networks and managed services for direct access to the financial markets. The 7ticks team provides electronic trading infrastructure design, procurement, installation, and hosting services that are enhanced by ongoing management, support, and monitoring solutions. Proprietary trading groups, clearing firms, global investment banks, brokers, market makers, hedge funds, and independent software vendors (ISVs) choose 7ticks for industry leading network performance, reliability, monitoring insight, and cost savings. 7ticks is headquartered in Chicago, IL and has an active worldwide presence, providing direct market access to leading exchanges and proximity/support services in Chicago, New York, New Jersey, Frankfurt and London.
About Interactive Data Corporation
Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) is a leading global provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors. The Company's businesses supply real-time market data, time-sensitive pricing, evaluations and reference data for millions of securities traded around the world, including hard-to-value instruments. Many of the world's best-known financial service and software companies subscribe to the Company's services in support of their trading, analysis, portfolio management and valuation activities. Interactive Data, headquartered in Bedford, Mass., has approximately 2,400 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO; LSE: PSON), an international media company, whose businesses include the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education, and the Penguin Group, is Interactive Data Corporation's majority stockholder.
For more information about Interactive Data Corporation and its businesses, please visit www.interactivedata.com.
For further information, please contact:
Investors
Andrew Kramer
Tel: +1 781-687-8306
Email: andrew.kramer@interactivedata.com
Media
Brian Willinsky (U.S. media)
Tel: +1 781-687-8291
Email: brian.willinsky@interactivedata.com
Sue Mitchell (European media)
Tel: +44 (0)20 7825 8076
Email: sue.mitchell@interactivedata.com
Karen Bertoli (Global Media)
Tel: +1 312-498-5366
Email: kbertoli@7ticks.com
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Chicago Neighborhood Recognized with National Public Outreach Award
From: Mittie Rooney mrooney@axcomgroup.com
Subject: FW: Chicago Neighborhood Recognized with National Public Outreach Award
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:20:26 -0500
To: 'Mittie Rooney' mrooney@axcomgroup.com
NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: December 2009
Contacts: Jamie Simone, AICP, Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce, 773.235.6385; Jamie@wickerparkbucktown.org
Scott Page, Interface Studio, 215.925.5595; scott@interface-studio.com
Roberta Rewers, APA, 312.786.6395; rrewers@planning.org
Chicago Neighborhood Recognized with National Public Outreach Award
Washington, D.C. - The American Planning Association selected the Wicker Park Bucktown Master Plan to receive the 2010 National Planning Excellence Award for Public Outreach for a process that was both original and innovative. The plan was commissioned by the Wicker Park Bucktown Special Service Area. The National Planning Award for Public Outreach recognizes a program that helps create greater awareness among citizens about the benefits of good planning.
"The planning process in the Wicker Park and Bucktown (WPB) neighborhoods educated and engaged people, built a stronger sense of community and captured citizen's imaginations-all while having fun," said Marie L. York, faicp, APA Board Director and 2010 National Planning Awards Jury Chair. "The result is a comprehensive, unique, and high-quality Master Plan for the district that reinforces the community's collective values and goals."
The Wicker Park and Bucktown areas of Chicago are like many urban neighborhoods across the nation going through major change. The challenge is to preserve and enhance the distinct qualities that make the area special while balancing the needs of residents, visitors and businesses.
WPB's district encompasses a vibrant mixed use urban area home to a diverse mix of people and a rare combination of nightlife, culture, family, and art. The planning team, led by Interface Studio with Sam Schwartz Engineering and Civic Economics, engaged hundreds of local participants in conventional and unconventional settings to gather input on the plan. Some of the unconventional outreach methods included:
§ Humorous, attention-getting posters;
§ Use of a vacant storefront for three weeks as a temporary exhibit of the community and the ongoing plan;
§ A video detailing how to get involved in the planning process that played for a month in a vacant store window;
§ Interviews with citizens to create a video portrait of the neighborhood and record of the planning process;
§ Do-it-yourself budgeting exercise;
§ Panel discussions inviting local business owners, nonprofit leaders, artists, organizers, and Aldermen to talk and answer community questions.
The award recognizing the Wicker Park Bucktown Master Plan will be presented at a special luncheon at APA's National Planning Conference in New Orleans on April 12, 2010. The outreach activities also will be featured in an upcoming issue of Planning magazine, APA's flagship publication.
For a list of all of the APA 2010 National Planning Excellence, Achievement, and Leadership Award recipients, visit www.planning.org/awards/2010. APA's national awards program, the profession's highest honor, is a proud tradition established more than 50 years ago to recognize outstanding community plans, planning programs and initiatives, public education efforts, and individuals for their leadership on planning issues.
The American Planning Association is an independent, not-for-profit educational organization that provides leadership in the development of vital communities. APA and its professional institute, the American Institute of Certified Planners, are dedicated to advancing the art, science and profession of good planning -- physical, economic and social -- so as to create communities that offer better choices for where and how people work and live. Members of APA help create communities of lasting value and encourage civic leaders, business interests and citizens to play a meaningful role in creating communities that enrich people's lives. APA has offices in Washington, D.C., and Chicago, Ill. For more information, visit www.planning.org.
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Rollyson on attending ITA v. TC
Subject: Re: Chris, I did not see you at TC12. Were you at the ITA party?
Date: 12/11/2009 11:36:31 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: chris@rollyson.net
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com
Hi Ron,
Affirmative. This is the third year running the ITA and TC have scheduled their events on the same night--*and* at the same time. This year, rather than running around I chose one. Those guys would add more value by coordinating their calendars because cross-pollination is so useful!
Hope you had a great time, and I'm looking forward to TC13
Cheers- Chris
On Dec 11, 2009, at 9:21 AM, RONALDMAY@aol.com wrote:
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Daliah Saper on TC12
Subject: Re: Daliah, I did not see you at TC12. What happened? What events have you attended?
Date: 12/11/2009 7:25:37 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: admin@saperlaw.com
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com
I was there! At the Saper Law booth as always.
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
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From: RONALDMAY@aol.com
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:22:47 EST
To: <dsaper@saperlaw.com>
Subject: Daliah, I did not see you at TC12. What happened? What events have you attended?
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Subject: Re: Daliah, I did not see you at TC12. What happened? What events have you at...
Date: 12/11/2009 4:47:34 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: admin@saperlaw.com
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com
that's not good! we were in the corner, near the Frost Ruttenberg booth. I got there around 7:30 and aside from some mingling, was stationed there most of the night. I didn't see you either. It was pretty crowded.....
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:45 PM, <ronaldmay@aol.com>wrote:
But where was your booth? I did not see you or it.
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Daliah Saper
Saper Law Offices, LLC
500 N. Dearborn, Suite 1200
Chicago, IL 60654
phone: 312.527.4100
email: dsaper@saperlaw.com
web: www.saperlaw.com
twitter: www.twitter.com/saperlaw
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Harvey Tillis: No AMC party in 2009
Subject: Re: Harvey, whatever happened to your holiday party?
Date: 12/13/2009 1:03:43 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: harvey@tillis.com
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com
We aren't hosting one this year.
Be well,
H
Harvey S. Tillis
Editorial, Documentary & Event Photography
Photomontage & Mural Art
773-276-9320
http://harveytillisphotography.com
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Jeffrey Meredith: Warning to Lundin
From: Jeffrey Meredith jeffmere@gmail.com
Subject: I never signed up for your newsletter with my Gmail account, Steve. Take me off your list
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:13:06 -0500
To: slundin@bigfrontier.org, ronaldmay@aol.com, ron@themayreport.com
You have more in common with Ron than you would ever believe. Are you
a professional spammer, Steve Lundin? This is your cease and desist
order.
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Bernie Asher: Groupon for healthcare
From: basher@ameritech.net
Subject: RE: The May Report: 12/09/2009: Here at TMR when we (I) goof, at least we (I) admit it and reveal it -- so mea culpa on missing the story of Groupon getting $30MM from Accel (and NEA)
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 17:11:41 -0600
To: 'The May Report' ron@themayreport.com
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RE: Groupon
Ron - imagine if one of these sites likes Groupon could do this for healthcare services -- such as an MRI for $150. Now you could really let the power of the consume drive the healthcare industry to be more competitive.
Bernie Asher
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Dick Reck on rock bands and Eric Olson's in particular
Subject: RE: Dick, since you know about rock bands, what did you think of those guys?
Date: 12/11/2009 3:05:38 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: dick@rreck.com
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com
Ron - I recently became aware of the fact that Eric played drums in the band that performed last night and had exchanged some emails with him. I was pleased I had the opportunity to see and hear them, but most of all, to meet the guys. They are very nice guys and commend them for keeping their interest in music going, even though most of them are pursuing other careers. They put on a good show and enjoyed their style of modern music. I have seen that they play at a number of taverns and bars around the north side.
I played in a variety of bands from 1961 through 1971 ranging from the high school jazz, concert, and marching bands and orchestra to wedding bands to folk groups and the like. I had the most fun performing for a number of years in a band called The Heard (1963 - 1968) and we performed covers and original music, much of which was vocally based rock and roll, around the Midwest. I played in bands throughout college, including a Broadway show tunes band and various rock bands. When I went to graduate school at the University of Michigan and got married, I put the guitars and bass away and focused on my career and family. The Button Pushers are keeping their music alive and I say, "Good for them!"
When I was at Michigan, I saw a TV show on Public Television called "Made in Chicago." That first show (in 1972 we think) was Jim Croce, Gladys Knight and the Pips, and a number of other well known musicians. As it turns out, the show was opened by a band called Heartsfield. They blew me away with a song called "I'm Comin' Home" and my wife and I fell in love with their music as their albums came out through the 1970s. I never saw that band - until a few years ago when I found them and learned that they are from Chicago. They were one of the couple of early bands in the country rock space and sounded like a cross between the Eagles and Lynyrd Skynyrd, with outstanding vocal harmonies and great dual lead guitar work and great songs.
Now, I am a partner in the band and we have just finished our 11th album, have sold a few million records, have made about 5,000 performances, and will be starting a promotional tour in February out west. You can see and hear more at www.heartsfield.com and at www.myspace.com/heartsfield. I have even had the opportunity to play banjo and guitar and sing with the original guys from the Heartsfield band. Ron, if you are lucky enough to receive one of my holiday newsletters, you may even see photographic evidence.
Take care of yourself, try to be a constructive part of the tech community, and have a good holiday season.
Dick Reck
BSA Heartsfield
BSA Management
Business Strategy Advisors LLC
128 Hillcrest Avenue
Hinsdale, Illinois 60521
312-307-8030
dick@rreck.com
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From: RONALDMAY@aol.com [mailto:RONALDMAY@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 6:07 AM
To: dick@rreck.com
Subject: Dick, since you know about rock bands, what did you think of those guys?
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Ron May here. There are a few points of view on the band, I am hearing. Some tweeters are complaining that it was too loud, and some people did not like that they were playing their own music. But they did start to play cover songs which more people enjoyed.
One person commented that a networking event should not have such a loud band. But I enjoyed it and do not agree with this person that the band is just another ego aggrandizing and self-promoting move on Eric's part. Self-promotion and narcissism is Frank's job anyway, isn't it. :-)
I spied Dick Reck through the window of the 200 S. Wacker building combing his hair and commented on how self-admiring this looked to me. But he pointed out, when I noted this at TC12, that it was damn cold and windy. I was sitting outside on the city property of the sidewalk in a wheel chair with Anna as my assistant.
Charles Wu told me that it was too noisy in the room. I think he is right. I could not conduct interviews with the band playing.
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Neil Kane on the ITDA to ITA transition
Subject: RE: Neil, how do you feel that the ITDA to ITA transition has gone for you?
Date: 12/11/2009 10:37:49 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: nkane@thindiamond.com
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com
Just fine. No issues or concerns here.
Neil Kane
Advanced Diamond Technologies, Inc.
Web: www.thindiamond.com
From: RONALDMAY@aol.com [mailto:RONALDMAY@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 10:07 AM
To: Neil Kane
Subject: Neil, how do you feel that the ITDA to ITA transition has gone for you?
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Subject: RE: Neil, how do you feel that the ITDA to ITA transition has gone for you?
Date: 12/11/2009 10:57:34 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: nkane@thindiamond.com
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com
No.
Neil Kane
Advanced Diamond Technologies, Inc.
Web: www.thindiamond.com
From: RONALDMAY@aol.com [mailto:RONALDMAY@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 10:56 AM
To: Neil Kane
Subject: Re: Neil, how do you feel that the ITDA to ITA transition has gone for you?
Have you met with Fred and/or LeAnne about establishing a nanotech roundtable as Jay Marhoefer met with them about a clean tech roundtable?
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Geoff Domoracki : MidVentures party in mid February?
Subject: Re: Geoff, just to get this right, you said your next get together is February 18th?
Date: 12/11/2009 3:56:06 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: gdomoracki@gmail.com
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com
Its not definite yet. Give me some time to get the presentation summary.
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:54 AM, <ronaldmay@aol.com>wrote:
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Geoffrey Domoracki
312-613-2735
http://www.midVentures.com
Head Guy
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Collin Canright: Was not at TC12
Subject: RE: Collin, I thought I saw you wandering around at TC12?
Date: 12/11/2009 6:32:55 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: collin@canrightcommunications.com
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com
No, not me. Christina and I went up to ITA event and then stopped in at a party a friend invited us to at a salon on Randolph. In a major small world story, we ran into an old friend we knew years ago when our daughters were children and played together. We stayed there and didn't make it to TC12. I'll look forward to reading about it in your report.
C
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From: RONALDMAY@aol.com [mailto:RONALDMAY@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 5:52 AM
To: Collin Canright
Subject: Collin, I thought I saw you wandering around at TC12?
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Ron tells Frank Gruber to watch CNBC special on AOL
Subject: Re: Frank, watch CNBC at 9pm Chicago time tonight, Wednesday. Program on AOL.
Date: 1/6/2010 7:40:29 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: frankgruber5@gmail.com
To: ronaldmay@aol.com
Ok thanks Ron, I will check it out.
Follow me at: http://twitter.com/frankgruber
-- sent from my iPhone so please excuse silly typos --
On Jan 6, 2010, at 5:36 PM, ronaldmay@aol.com wrote:
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Untemplater.com Launch Week!
Subject: Untemplater.com Launch Week!
Date: 1/6/2010 6:12:02 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: monica.l.obrien@gmail.com
To: ronaldmay@aol.com
LinkedIn
Monica O'Brien has sent you a message.
Date: 1/06/2010
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Len Bland warns Ron on use of cane
Subject: Your cane
Date: 1/6/2010 3:47:11 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: len_bland@conceptequity.com
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com
CC: davidcarman@BNChicago.org
Ron,
It was nice to see you last night. However, we had agreed that you would not use your cane to impel people to give their card to you. I noticed that you were hitting the back of someone's chair with your cane last night.
Please consider this a warning and refrain from using your cane as a tool in the future.
Regards,
Len Bland, CPA
CEO
http://twitter.com/conceptlen
Office/Cell: 847-317-0656
Fax: 847-919-4396
www.conceptequity.com
Next BNC Venture Capital Group Meeting
Join BNC Venture Capital Group notification list
Current investment opportunities
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The Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund
The Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund has funded four new companies with a
total of $924,000. The companies are: Mandy & Pandy (Chinese language
learning for kids), Algal Scientific (nutrient removal for municipal and
industrial wastewater), Axenic Dental (disposable high-speed dental drills)
and RealBio Technology (3D cell culture tool).
PRESS RELEASE
Four more Michigan companies recently received investments from the Michigan
Pre-Seed Capital Fund. To date, 38 Michigan companies have received seed
funding from the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund, a collaborative effort of
Michigan's SmartZones. Combined, Mandy & Pandy, Algal Scientific, Axenic
Dental, and RealBio Technology received $924,000 from the Michigan Pre-Seed
Capital Fund.
"The Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund is a great resource for helping start-up
businesses grow in our state," said Skip Simms, Michigan Pre-Seed Capital
Fund administrator. "The Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund is a resource that
not only helps start-ups get launched in the state, but also keeps them
here."
Each of the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund recipients will use the funding
to support commercialization efforts. Specific innovations include:
Mandy & Pandy teaches kids Chinese in a fun and easy way through books, CDs,
DVDs, toys, fashion, and television. Similarly, Mandy & Pandy teaches
English to Chinese-speaking children.
Algal Scientific's proprietary technology provides advanced nutrient removal
for municipal and industrial wastewater allowing customers to meet stringent
EPA standards, while producing algal biomass that can be used for biofuels
and fertilizer production.
Axenic Dental has created a disposable high-speed dental drill that can be
used for any procedures in the dental market where re-useable metal
handpieces are currently used.
RealBio Technology will commercialize a 3D cell culture tool within the life
science industry that will transform stem cell research. The Nth Degree
System is a high-value, high-margin, single use tool that will have broad
acceptance initially in stem cell 'farming' and research.
The Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund, a collaborative effort of Michigan's
SmartZones, is an equity fund that invests in technology-based companies to
support business formation and acceleration. Ann Arbor SPARK serves as the
Fund's administrator.
To qualify for the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund, start-up companies must
be based on a technology in one of the state's identified competitive
technologies and have the sponsorship of a local SmartZone. In addition to
SmartZone sponsorship, companies must have received grant, angel or venture
capital funding as a match with the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund
investment.
The Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund is an equity investment fund that
receives the same returns as the third party investor. The returns that the
Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund receives from its investments will be
redeployed by the Fund to continue its mission of helping start ups with
their first round of capital.
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TechAmerica Applauds Defense in House of Small Business Exemption from SOX 404
Subject: Press Release: TechAmerica Applauds Defense in House of Small Business Exemption from SOX 404
Date: 12/11/2009 2:19:43 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: ed.longanecker@techamerica.org
To: Midwest@techamerica.org
Good afternoon,
I would like to thank the many companies that spoke to the SBA at our request in preparation for this and other debates related to the SOX 404 small business exemption.
Best regards,
Ed
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 11, 2009
Contact: Charlie Greenwald at 202.682.4443 or charlie.greenwald@techamerica.org
Anne Caliguiri at 703.284.5305 or anne.caliguiri@techamerica.org
TechAmerica Applauds Defense in House of Small Business Exemption from SOX 404
Washington, DC - TechAmerica today applauded members of the House of Representatives for upholding a proposed exemption of small public companies from certain regulations passed under Sarbanes-Oxley in 2002.
"This is a clear recognition that small companies drive the US economy, and any excessive costs borne by them undermine employment, innovation and growth," said TechAmerica President Phil Bond. We are pleased to see House members hold the line on this provision and look forward to seeing it enacted."
Members this morning defeated an amendment to financial reform legislation that would have removed the exemption from a bill designed to protect companies with a market cap of less than $75 million from the so-called SOX 404 requirements. The Security and Exchange Commission has provided small cap companies with numerous delays in the requirement, but recently announced that Section 404 will go into effect for all companies beginning next year.
About TechAmerica
TechAmerica is the leading voice for the U.S. technology industry, which is the driving force behind productivity growth and jobs creation in the United States and the foundation of the global innovation economy. Representing approximately 1,500 member companies of all sizes from the public and commercial sectors of the economy, it is the industry's largest advocacy organization and is dedicated to helping members' top and bottom lines. It is also the technology industry's only grassroots-to-global advocacy network, with offices in state capitals around the United States, Washington, D.C., Europe (Brussels) and Asia (Beijing). TechAmerica was formed by the merger of AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association), the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) and the Government Electronics & Information Technology Association (GEIA). Learn more at www.techamerica.org.
Best regards,
Ed Longanecker
Executive Director, Regional Director of State Government Affairs
TechAmerica Midwest
NEW PHONE: 630-282-4332
ed.longanecker@techamerica.org
www.techamerica.org
AeA & ITAA have merged to form TechAmerica
Where the future begins
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TechAmerica Public Sector Calendar of Meetings & Events for January 2010
Subject: TechAmerica Public Sector Calendar of Meetings & Events for January 2010
Date: 1/4/2010 2:44:10 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: ed.longanecker@techamerica.org
To: Midwest@techamerica.org
Good afternoon,
Enclosed are the dates for TechAmerica's Public Sector (PS) meetings and events scheduled for January 2010. Please note, all meetings are exclusive to member companies. More information, including the meeting agenda, location, etc. can be obtained by responding to this email or by calling me directly at 630-282-4332.
It is possible that there will be additional meetings and/or dinners added to the calendar. Those will all be announced via e-mail and will be posted to the Event Directory. Please make sure to read Meeting/Event Announcement, Reminder and Revision e-mails prior to attending a meeting or event, as they may contain important agenda or location change information.
Thank you!
January Public Sector Meetings and Events
06-Jan-10 Homeland Security Committee Meeting Guest Speaker - Mark Powell, Director, Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Information Technology Directorate, US Coast Guard, DHS (RSVP Required) - 8:30 - 10:30 am ET -- Fairview Park Marriott, Falls Church, VA
08-Jan-10 Oregon Procurement Task Force Conference Call - 1:00 pm PT - Conference Call
12-Jan-10 Vision Strategic Forecast Council Mtg. (By Invitation Only) - 9:30 - 11:30 am ET - TechAmerica, Arlington, VA
12-Jan-10 Health IT Committee Meeting (RSVP Required) - 11:00 am - 12:00 pm ET - TechAmerica, Washington, DC
12-Jan-10 Intelligence Subcommittee Meeting, Guest Speaker: Richard Hale, Chief Information Assurance Executive, Defense Information Systems Agency - CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET (COLLATERAL) - Registration required) - 2:00 - 4:00 pm ET - TBD, Arlington, VA
12-Jan-10 State Procurement Committee Conference Call - 3:00 - 4:00 pm ET - Conference Call
13-Jan-10 Procurement Policy Committee Meeting (Guest Speaker Invited) - 9:30 - 11:30 am ET - TechAmerica, Arlington, VA
13-Jan-10 GSA Subcommittee Meeting - 11:45 am - 1:30 pm ET - TechAmerica, Arlington, VA
14-Jan-10 Procurement Policy Webinar Series: The Recovery Act and "Buy American" Challenges (RSVP Required) -2:00 - 3:00 pm ET - Webinar
20-Jan-10 Federal Committee Meeting - 9:30 - 11:30 am ET - Marriott Tysons Corner, Vienna, VA
21-Jan-10 Government Marketing Committee - 9:30 - 11:00 am ET - TechAmerica, Arlington, VA
21-Jan-10 Human Services IT Advisory Group Meeting, Guest Speaker: Mary Ellen Bennard, CIO, DCF, Commonwealth of Massachusetts (RSVP Required) - 11:30 am - 2:00 pm ET - TechAmerica, Arlington, VA
21-Jan-10 Information Security Committee Meeting - 2:00 - 4:00 pm ET - TechAmerica, Washington, DC
26-Jan-10 Identity Management Committee Meeting (RSVP Required) - 2:00 - 3:30 pm ET - TechAmerica, Arlington, VA
27-Jan-10 Defense Committee Meeting (Guest Speaker Invited) - 9:00 - 11:00 am ET - Marriott Tysons Corner, Vienna, VA
27-Jan-10 Smart Grid Committee Meeting - 2:00 - 3:30 pm ET - TechAmerica, Washington, DC
27-Jan-10 TechAmerica State & Local Dinner with Ken Theis, Director, Department of Information Technology, State of Michigan (Registration & Confirmation Required) - 6:30 - 9:00 pm ET - Troppo, Lansing, MI
Mark your Calendar
2-Feb-10 Operation Jump Start VI (Registration Required) - 5:30 - 8:30 pm ET - Army-Navy Club, Arlington, VA
4/5-Feb-10 Public Sector 2010 Joint Procurement Policy Committee/GSA Subcommittee Strategic Planning Retreat (Registration Required) - Annapolis, MD
25-Feb-10 Defense Strategic Planning Forum (Registration Required) - 8:00 - 11:30 am ET - The University Club, Washington, DC
22-Mar-10 Beyond the Beltway 2010: State & Local Government IT Market Watch (Online Registration is Open) - The Ritz-Carlton Tysons Corner, McLean, VA
23-Mar-10 Federal CIO Survey Event - 8:00 am - 7:00 pm ET - Grand Hyatt, Washington, DC
Best regards,
Ed Longanecker
Executive Director, Regional Director of State Government Affairs
TechAmerica Midwest
NEW PHONE: 630-282-4332
ed.longanecker@techamerica.org
www.techamerica.org
AeA & ITAA have merged to form TechAmerica
Where the future begins
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Ray Genellie responds to Ron's survey
Subject: RE: Ray, I am doing an academic research project of sorts.
Date: 12/22/2009 9:42:51 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: rgenellie@questek.com
To: ronaldmay@aol.com
Ron:
Apologize for the delay, but I was at a family funeral yesterday. In answer to your inquiry, I do know of, but am really not that familiar with, the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center. Fortunately, we have not had need of their services.
I think that when you're first getting started, attending these holiday events becomes important as you continue to let people know about your business, but as you grow your company, the holiday obligations you have to staff and others also grows. For us, December is a very busy time as there is a lot of travel, we have to end the fiscal year and get ready for the next, and we're working on government proposals that are due in early January - so often it's just hard to take time off to get to a lot of these holiday parties. That said, if some organization provided significant funding or other assistance, we would certainly make every effort to attend an invited event.
Ray
Raymond P. Genellie, Jr.
Vice President - Operations
QuesTek Innovations LLC
1820 Ridge Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
(847)425-8211 (Direct)
(847)528-5011 (Cell)
From: ronaldmay@aol.com [mailto:ronaldmay@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 9:45 PM
To: Raymond Genellie
Cc: ronaldmay@aol.com
Subject: Ray, I am doing an academic research project of sorts.
December 20, 2009
Ray,
What got me started on this was that I noticed a drop off in attendance at the CEC party this year and in particular, there were fewer entrepreneurs. You were not there last Thursday night at Lumen, for example.
So, I went back to the TMR archives showing who attended for each year and I don't see you in my archives for having attended the CEC party.
It dawned on me that the attendees, especially the entrepreneurs, are there for money and when they get it or get tired of trying to get it, they stop attending.
That thought formed the basis for a hypothesis which I think can be examined with a higher standard of scrutiny.
Here is my hypothesis which would explain much of the attendance or non-attendance and I would like to test it.
1. Entrepreneurs tend to show up at the CEC party if they are seeking funding from the CEC or if they have recently gotten it. I refer here to the $5K, $10K, $25K and $80K grants plus the i2A funding.
2. Attendance for entrepreneurs tends to drop off at X interval (measured in months) after the funding issue has been resolved (whether they got the money or not).
3. There may be exogenous variables that explain sustained and stable entrepreneur attendance over the years such as:
A. The entrepreneur is a poker friend of David Weinstein's
B. The entrepreneur may be looking to be the EIR in the next round for the next FY
C. The entrepreneur is looking for SBA debt financing
4. Non-entrepreneurs who attend regularly may be looking for referrals and deal flow. They may be lawyers, investors, or part of the ED infrastructure. This would explain the attendance of people like Matt Brown, Linda Darragh, Nik Rokop and Sam Guren.
5. Entrepreneur or non-entrepreneur, they are on the CEC board.
So, for you and your firm Questek, what is your funding history with the CEC specifically?
A. Has Questek received any grant money which came through the CEC?
B. If so, what grants and what amounts?
C. When were those grants received?
D. Has the CEC assisted in the receipt of any debt financing?
E. Has the CEC assisted in the receipt of any equity funding?
I have a pretty good data base to start with and may actually be able to develop a sustainable thesis here.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Ron
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Neil Kane responds to Ron' survey
Subject: RE: Neil, I'm actually doing an academic resarch project of sorts.
Date: 12/21/2009 1:44:05 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: nkane@thindiamond.com
Reply To:
To: ronaldmay@aol.com
In answer to your questions, ADT has never gotten a grant nor any debt nor equity through the CEC.
Good luck on your thesis.
Neil Kane
President
Advanced Diamond Technologies, Inc.
Web: www.thindiamond.com
From: ronaldmay@aol.com [mailto:ronaldmay@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 8:42 PM
To: Neil Kane
Cc: ronaldmay@aol.com
Subject: Neil, I'm actually doing an academic resarch project of sorts.
December 20, 2009
Neil,
What got me started on this was the fact that I noticed a drop off in attendance at the CEC party this year and in particular, there were fewer entrepreneurs. You were not there last Thursday night at Lumen, for example.
So, I went back to my own archives showing who attended for each year and in December 2006, you were there.
I know that you were on the six person selection committee of the EIR program which we have discussed.
It dawned on me that the attendees, especially the entrepreneurs, are there for money and when they get it or get tired of trying to get it, they stop attending.
That thought formed the basis for a hypothesis which I think can be examined with a higher standard of scrutiny.
Here is my hypothesis which would explain much of the attendance or non-attendance and I would like to test it.
1. Entrepreneurs tend to show up at the CEC party if they are in need of funding from the CEC or if they have recently gotten it. I refer here to the $5K, $10K, $25K and $80K grants plus the i2A funding. Irv Shapiro and Matt Moog are two good examples of drop-offs.
2. Attendance for entrepreneurs tends to drop off at X interval (measured in time in months) after the funding issue has been resolved (whether they got the money or not).
3. There may be exogenous variables that explain sustained and stable entrepreneur attendance over the years such as:
A. The entrepreneur is a poker friend of David Weinstein's
B. The entrepreneur may be looking to be the EIR in the next round for the next FY
C. The entrepreneur is looking for SBA debt financing
4. Non-entrepreneurs who attend regularly may be looking for referrals and deal flow. They may be lawyers, investors, or part of the ED infrastructure. This would explain the attendance of people like Matt Brown, Linda Darragh, Nik Rokop and Sam Guren.
5. Entrepreneur or non-entrepreneur, they are on the CEC board.
So, for you and your firm, and excluding the EIR connection, what is your funding history with the CEC specifically?
A. Has ADT received any grant money which came through the CEC?
B. If so, what grants and what amounts?
C. When were those grants received?
D. Has the CEC assisted in the receipt of any debt financing?
E. Has the CEC assisted in the receipt of any equity funding?
I have a pretty good data base to start with and may actually be able to develop a sustainable thesis here.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Ron
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Zenah Khawaja: Thanks for the heads up
Subject: Re: Thanks for the heads up.
Date: 12/21/2009 9:20:18 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: zkhawaja@comcast.net
To: ronaldmay@aol.com
Zenah Khawaja
Semiautomatic Semiotics, LLC
----- Original Message -----
From: ronaldmay@aol.com
To: cto@semiautomatic3d.com
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 12:03:39 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Zenah, you finally made the final editing cut and are in a video. See below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dDWBnHB8ro
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Ron Kirschner on parties attended
Subject: Re: I didn't see you at the CEC party. You often go. What parties have you be
Date: 12/21/2009 9:03:02 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: ron.kirschner@comcast.net
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com
Haven't gone to too many parties this year. I'll be going to SEEDA (but that really is not a party).
I'm getting ready for next year.
Ron
On Dec 20, 2009, at 1:44 PM, RONALDMAY@aol.com wrote:
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Dennis Serio on parties attended
Subject: RE: Dennis, I didn't see you at the CEC party. Have you been to any holiday p
Date: 12/21/2009 8:34:30 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: dserio@sbcglobal.net
To: ronaldmay@aol.com
I was not invited to the CEC party. I have been busy on several projects and have not attended any parties.
Dennis Serio
Illinois Business & Investors Forum
630-207-3076
From: ronaldmay@aol.com [mailto:ronaldmay@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 12:33 PM
To: dserio@sbcglobal.net
Subject: Dennis, I didn't see you at the CEC party. Have you been to any holiday parties?
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Dick Mulvihill on parties attended
Subject: RE: Dick, what holiday events did you attend? MIT-EF, and what else?
Date: 12/21/2009 8:13:02 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: dick.mulvihill@hexistor.com
To: ronaldmay@aol.com
Ron - Only MITEF
From: ronaldmay@aol.com [mailto:ronaldmay@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 3:36 PM
To: dick@hexistor.com
Subject: Dick, what holiday events did you attend? MIT-EF, and what else?
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Neil Kane was at the CEC
Subject: Re: Neil, I'm actually doing an academic resarch project of sorts.
Date: 12/20/2009 9:21:54 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: nkane@thindiamond.com
To: ronaldmay@aol.com
I was at the party.
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Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld--please forgive any tipos.
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Roy Klein on parties attended
Subject: Re: Roy, what holiday parties did you attend?
Date: 12/20/2009 7:50:52 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: applengtek@aol.com
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com
Ron,
MEF & MITEF
Roy Klein
In a message dated 12/20/2009 3:23:31 P.M. Central Standard Time, RONALDMAY writes:
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Tim O'Connor on Mentor Mastermind run by David Culver
Subject: Re: Tim, can you tell me about the group you have that meets at your office?
Date: 12/19/2009 7:49:59 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: toc@brightspotbrands.com
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com
I think you're referring about Mentor Mastermind run by David Culver. I've attended a couple of meetings. Not a 'newsworthy' group from your perspective but more of an incubator of the entrepreneurial spirit. Nice group. Small. Good energy. Good place to go and have the group give some real feedback on a business plan.
Tim
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From: RONALDMAY@aol.com
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:30:53 EST
To: <toc@brightspotbrands.com>
Subject: Tim, can you tell me about the group you have that meets at your office?
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Bob Geras does not recall an invite to the CEC
Subject: Re: I did not see you at the CEC party last night.
Date: 12/18/2009 2:05:09 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: bob@vcbob.com
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com
I don't remember seeing an invitation. Also, I was having dinner with my Son from Denver and Dawn.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:35 PM, <ronaldmay@aol.com>wrote:
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Bob Geras
LaSalle Investments
312-440-0040
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Adarsh Arora on the Executives' Club meeting on the 16th
Subject: I read your report on the event
Date: 12/18/2009 11:28:25 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: aarora@athenasecurity.net
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com
I got a general sense, so let me not bother you about a call.
Thanks much,
Adarsh
Adarsh K. Arora
CEO
Athena Security Inc.
www.athenasecurity.net
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Ron's note to Mike Carruth for his survey
Subject: Mike, I'm actually doing an academic resarch project of sorts.
Date: 12/20/2009 9:35:57 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: ronaldmay@aol.com
To: mike@fiodan.com
CC: ronaldmay@aol.com
December 20, 2009
Mike,
What got me started on this was that I noticed a drop off in attendance at the CEC party this year and in particular, there were fewer entrepreneurs. You were not there last Thursday night at Lumen, for example.
So, I went back to the TMR archives showing who attended for each year and in December 2006 at Bella Lounge, you were there.
It dawned on me that the attendees, especially the entrepreneurs, are there for money and when they get it or get tired of trying to get it, they stop attending.
That thought formed the basis for a hypothesis which I think can be examined with a higher standard of scrutiny.
Here is my hypothesis which would explain much of the attendance or non-attendance and I would like to test it.
1. Entrepreneurs tend to show up at the CEC party if they are seeking funding from the CEC or if they have recently gotten it. I refer here to the $5K, $10K, $25K and $80K grants plus the i2A funding.
2. Attendance for entrepreneurs tends to drop off at X interval (measured in months) after the funding issue has been resolved (whether they got the money or not).
3. There may be exogenous variables that explain sustained and stable entrepreneur attendance over the years such as:
A. The entrepreneur is a poker friend of David Weinstein's
B. The entrepreneur may be looking to be the EIR in the next round for the next FY
C. The entrepreneur is looking for SBA debt financing
4. Non-entrepreneurs who attend regularly may be looking for referrals and deal flow. They may be lawyers, investors, or part of the ED infrastructure. This would explain the attendance of people like Matt Brown, Linda Darragh, Nik Rokop and Sam Guren.
5. Entrepreneur or non-entrepreneur, they are on the CEC board.
So, for you and your firm Fiodan, what is your funding history with the CEC specifically?
A. Has Fiodan received any grant money which came through the CEC?
B. If so, what grants and what amounts?
C. When were those grants received?
D. Has the CEC assisted in the receipt of any debt financing?
E. Has the CEC assisted in the receipt of any equity funding?
I have a pretty good data base to start with and may actually be able to develop a sustainable thesis here.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Ron
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Ron's note to Irv Shapiro for his survey
Subject: Irv, I'm actually doing an academic resarch project of sorts.
Date: 12/20/2009 9:17:54 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: ronaldmay@aol.com
To: ishapiro@ifbyphone.com
CC: ronaldmay@aol.com
December 20, 2009
Irv,
What got me started on this was that I noticed a drop off in attendance at the CEC party this year and in particular, there were fewer entrepreneurs. You were not there last Thursday night at Lumen, for example.
So, I went back to the TMR archives showing who attended for each year and in December 2006 at Bella Lounge, you were there.
It dawned on me that the attendees, especially the entrepreneurs, are there for money and when they get it or get tired of trying to get it, they stop attending.
That thought formed the basis for a hypothesis which I think can be examined with a higher standard of scrutiny.
Here is my hypothesis which would explain much of the attendance or non-attendance and I would like to test it.
1. Entrepreneurs tend to show up at the CEC party if they are seeking funding from the CEC or if they have recently gotten it. I refer here to the $5K, $10K, $25K and $80K grants plus the i2A funding.
2. Attendance for entrepreneurs tends to drop off at X interval (measured in time in months) after the funding issue has been resolved (whether they got the money or not).
3. There may be exogenous variables that explain sustained and stable entrepreneur attendance over the years such as:
A. The entrepreneur is a poker friend of David Weinstein's
B. The entrepreneur may be looking to be the EIR in the next round for the next FY
C. The entrepreneur is looking for SBA debt financing
4. Non-entrepreneurs who attend regularly may be looking for referrals and deal flow. They may be lawyers, investors, or part of the ED infrastructure. This would explain the attendance of people like Matt Brown, Linda Darragh, Nik Rokop and Sam Guren.
5. Entrepreneur or non-entrepreneur, they are on the CEC board.
So, for you and your firm IfbyPhone, what is your funding history with the CEC specifically?
A. Has IfbyPhone received any grant money which came through the CEC?
B. If so, what grants and what amounts?
C. When were those grants received?
D. Has the CEC assisted in the receipt of any debt financing?
E. Has the CEC assisted in the receipt of any equity funding?
I have a pretty good data base to start with and may actually be able to develop a sustainable thesis here.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Ron
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Ron's note to Julia Stamberger for his survey
Subject: Julia, I'm actually doing an academic resarch project of sorts.
Date: 12/20/2009 9:10:37 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: ronaldmay@aol.com
To: julia.stamberger@gopicnic.com
CC: ronaldmay@aol.com
December 20, 2009
Julia,
What got me started on this was the fact that I noticed a drop off in attendance at the CEC party this year and in particular, there were fewer entrepreneurs. You were not there last Thursday night at Lumen, for example.
So, I went back to the TMR archives showing who attended for each year and in December 2006 and December 2007, you were there.
It dawned on me that the attendees, especially the entrepreneurs, are there for money and when they get it or get tired of trying to get it, they stop attending.
That thought formed the basis for a hypothesis which I think can be examined with a higher standard of scrutiny.
Here is my hypothesis which would explain much of the attendance or non-attendance and I would like to test it.
1. Entrepreneurs tend to show up at the CEC party if they are seeking funding from the CEC or if they have recently gotten it. I refer here to the $5K, $10K, $25K and $80K grants plus the i2A funding. Irv Shapiro and Matt Moog are two good examples of drop-offs.
2. Attendance for entrepreneurs tends to drop off at X interval (measured in time in months) after the funding issue has been resolved (whether they got the money or not).
3. There may be exogenous variables that explain sustained and stable entrepreneur attendance over the years such as:
A. The entrepreneur is a poker friend of David Weinstein's
B. The entrepreneur may be looking to be the EIR in the next round for the next FY
C. The entrepreneur is looking for SBA debt financing
4. Non-entrepreneurs who attend regularly may be looking for referrals and deal flow. They may be lawyers, investors, or part of the ED infrastructure. This would explain the attendance of people like Matt Brown, Linda Darragh, Nik Rokop and Sam Guren.
5. Entrepreneur or non-entrepreneur, they are on the CEC board.
So, for you and your firm GoPicnic, what is your funding history with the CEC specifically?
A. Has GoPicnic received any grant money which came through the CEC?
B. If so, what grants and what amounts?
C. When were those grants received?
D. Has the CEC assisted in the receipt of any debt financing?
E. Has the CEC assisted in the receipt of any equity funding?
I have a pretty good data base to start with and may actually be able to develop a sustainable thesis here.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Ron
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