Re: Getting Mega Projects Done

From: Earl Colby Pottinger (earlcp_at_idirect.com)
Date: 11/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:38:22 -0600

david@ualmiles.com (David Summers) :

> All true, although only the first one bothers me really. To rectify
> that I have made arrangements to have my data examined if I pass on.

No-one is going to bother to look, there are too many kooks out there already.

> Your comments are based on the assumption that I will never have the
> resources to accomplish the task, because you do not the details of my
> life.

No, I think you are too busy trying to keep it secret so you never do the
things needed to get the resources.

> I am fairly certain that at the very least when I retire I will
> be able to launch this (in 20 years or so, FYI). As you have said,
> the funding would be available once the project is shown to be
> workable.

No, I base it on the fact you are too scare to have your idea examined
openly. This is often a mark of a con-artist, or even more often someone so
in love with thier self-genius that they are scared to face the truth about
the facts of thier idea.

> I am really just trying to get a feel for when it would be logical to
> seek funding. My day job is with various startup companies, and at
> any point I could stop looking for new ones, sell my interest, and
> start my own aerospace company. But I do not have a good feel for
> when the timing would be appropriate, because of the lack of sucessful
> startups to model on.

No matter how you appoach them you are going to have to let the cat out of
the bag, and you seem to scared to do that. No-one is giving money without
knowing what you plan to do. The Dot-Com bust insures that.

> Obviously, I must weigh the risks and rewards of forming a new
> aerospace startup. Right now, I have difficulty giving up a "sure
> thing" for an unknown, so I am trying to quantify the unknown.

And no-one is going to blindly invest in a company that they don't know what
you plan to build, you still have to give up your so-called secret.

> On another note, if you were looking the form an areospace startup,
> where would you look for employees? The first few are going to be
> critical in order to make the company sucessful... any
> recommendations? Does anyone work on spec after the '91 crash, other
> than me?

You can't get anyone at present because some information about your idea has
to be reveiled in order to know if the employee will match the company needs.
 Again you have to let go of your secret.

All your problems stem from one thing. Your desire to keep secrets. Until
you can let that go, you will not have success.

                  Earl Colby Pottinger 

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