Blackberry Partners Fund: Day Two

• 845 email messages so far. We've been a bit busy.
• 100 speeding dating meetings here at the WES Conference in Orlando with my partners from JLA and RBC. Rumor has it the sun was out.
• 845 emails from around the world and exactly ONE person attached a .VCF. Ben Marcel of Baton Rouge, LA, come on down you've won a free Term Sheet.
• 22 Countries represented in the email flow.
• 8 people wanting tech support for their Blackberry
• 1 person placing an order for the Blackberry Bold WITH a credit card
• 1 person giving me 24 hours to review the company before they were "forced to seek capital elsewhere."
• 12 "sent from my iPhone" emails (tacky people, tacky)
• 82 people wanting to know about funding to port their Palm app to the RIM devices.
• 6 people complaining about Verizon but the IP addresses suggest they are all coming from Mike Arrington's computers.

And my favorite stat of all:

• 24 full business plans WITH NDA's accompanying them.

I LOVE THIS GIG!

Comments

[heri]

really, you should now rename JLA to JLA Mobile fund. It's the future now

[MRM]

R

You are one of the funniest people I know.

MRM

[pete]

awesome to see you can keep up with the blogging even with the added load.
I'm looking forward to following your news on this.

I guess I have to get my head back into the mobile space...ok, it's there.

[Andre Charland]

haha. holy crap! no wonder i got email at 10:20pm from someone with a 416 area code. Glad there's that much enthusiasm, I want more cool blackberry apps!

[GL]

Thank goodness I came across your blog. After seeing your post; specifically the following statement (below), I decided to get a vc introduction. Congrats on the new Fund. Look forward to working with you guys - assuming we get some cash from you:)

....845 email messages"

[Shane]

Hockey, Michael J Fox, and RIM applications. Man I love Canada

[Shane]

Hockey, Michael J Fox, and RIM applications. Man I love Canada

[Mark Matchen]

Hilarious. Lessons learned? In any situation, 1% of participants will be dumb (8 seeking tech support) and .1% will be collosally dumb (1 ordering a Bold WITH credit card). Or if you prefer, no matter how clear your communication, 1% (and that seems low) will simply not read or not understand. No matter what.

Further, offers, like a surge in VC money availability, will generate different classes of opportunists. Like the 10% who want to jump (sinking) ship of Palm for RIM. The 12 people so professional they wrote from their iPhones. (Maybe they've been listening to the smartphone ads suggesting offices are so 20th Century.) There's a whole education to be had from this classification of respondents. Thanks for sharing, Rick.