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[prog]

Having caught someone's interest within, I submitted a level-two application to one of the angel groups yesterday. If we're just as good as everyone else who got a form to fill in, our chances of being invited to give a presentation are maybe 15 percent. I like to think our pitch is better than everyone else's, but it's a variable completely outside of my control -- maybe the other 14 applicants are all cancer cures -- so the confident speech that aspartaimee and the Andys have been training me to pour into my business writing falters here.

daerr thinks we impressed the fellow with whom we met on Thursday, so assumedly he'll put in a good word for us. We'll see... I'm told that they'll get back to me, and everyone from the group has been very good about communication so far. (I take this as a hopeful sign, since this same group was among those to silently ignore my application last fall.)

D and I had coffee this evening and talked a lot about what to do next with volity.net, now that Gamut is able to respond safely to Web browser links (on Mac and Windows, anyway). I'm energized with ideas and direction but I also feel doomed. It's tough to hack on Volity when our financial fate is so uncertain. I told him that I felt like I was rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, but that's actually not the best metaphor. It's more like I'm feeding Schrödinger's Cat.

Last November, we figured that June was our drop-dead deadline for having funds. Well, it's June, and we don't have a check in hand yet... but we do have at least a couple of sources sniffing interestedly at us, and it's not like we're flat out of seed yet. I call this schedule slip. We can handle this.

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[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

hmmm. while this isn't that dire, relatively speaking, it's less than ideal. i had visions of you pimping the andys out and then it all blowing up in your faces when andy finds love with a diplomat's daughter, andy turning states evidence, and the drug/prostitution empire you constructed crumbling around your ears. i really saw it as a ripped from the headlines episode of law and order: criminal intent. i feel you going up against vincent d'onofrio would be like chess on crack.

that said, best of luck to you. i wish i were loaded.