You can take the entrepreneur out of the start-up but you can't take the start-up out of the entrepreneur. Or something like that...
My buddy Darren ("My Friends Call Me D-Bone") Herman -- a serial entrepreneur now leading the digital media group at a media buying agency called Media Kitchen -- has issued an open challenge to any company or entrepreneur who might have cool ideas about how to monetize an audience of 750,000 U.S. Internet consumers. He is advising a company who can serve up the people and if you can bring a compelling business model to the table, you might land yourself an exclusive business development deal. Love it!
Here's everything you need to know, in D-Bone's own words --
"I???d like to pose a challenge to all entrepreneurs or established companies who are looking to increase their distribution (and business) in the digital media world. I???m friendly advising someone/company that has legal access to over 750,000 US Internet users and we are trying to come up with new ways to monetize the audience.
Distribution will come from access to a ???portal??? like page and thru email announcements. How can we monetize these better and/or release a new product/service/solution to this audience.
Since we probably aren???t going to build new businesses around this, we are looking to potentially partner (through business development arrangements) with entrepreneurs like you. We are looking to hear from entrepreneurs or established companies who have a product/service/solution in the market today, or have an ???idea??? of what we could potentially pursue.
Think of this as an RFI (request for information.) The ultimate prize is having access to the user base which should help us increase our revenue (top and bottomline) and add value to the community. In most cases, should you be picked, you would receive a business development arrangement that is mutually exclusive. There is potential for us to fund ???ideas,??? but that is in a case by case basis.
Interested? You can fill out this form.
Feel free to spread the link to anyone: http://snurl.com/2vvbw
I???ll be closing the entries at the end of next week (7/18/08).
Happy entrepreneuring!"
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