I'd be interested. I think a lot of us are small shops and we'd benefit from partnering on certain things. I can see opportunities for me to partner with a group or individual with experience deploying hardened Linux boxes in an enterprise environment with me providing some expertise in call centre deployments and CRM software; just as an example.
I'd be interested to know what everyone else is doing. What is your focus, what skills or specialties to you offer. I think that a number of the businesses in the group are not focused entirely on Asterisk. Some are Linux implementation shops that also do Asterisk. I'm an IT consultant who does some Asterisk where it applies and I'm sure there are endless combinations. I know when a project isn't well suited to my company. The more people I can network with about business, the better I can hand that deal off or partner with someone. On a matter of protocol, we should probably consider moving this thread over to taug-biz. I'll copy this message to that list to facilitate the transition. Dave On 5/15/06, Kristian Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well the basis of the meet would be everything from business development to sales & marketing and everything in between. I have access to a lot of people out there such as Marketing Agencies to high level accountants who can come in and speak with us to educate us how to help us grow our business, get grants and loans to increase our technology offerings and this is to just mention some of the ideas I have on the top of my head. This is not going to be a meeting to talk tech - the regular meetings are good for that. I want this meeting to be a time for all of our minds to connect and a decent way to help each other with all of our very different skill sets. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Van Meggelen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 10:31 AM To: 'Kristian Ward'; 'Kristian Ward'; 'Dominic Ogbonna'; 'Mark Palser'; [email protected] Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] RE: Business Owners G2G For myself, I find that the regular TAUG meetings discuss most of what I am interested in from a business perspective. If you could give a bit more detail on what you would want to focus on I'd be able to better evaluate my interest. Jim -- Jim Van Meggelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177 "A child is the ultimate startup, and I have three. This makes me rich." Guy Kawasaki -- > -----Original Message----- > From: Kristian Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: May 15, 2006 10:16 AM > To: 'Kristian Ward'; 'Dominic Ogbonna'; 'Mark Palser'; [email protected] > Subject: [on-asterisk] RE: Business Owners G2G > > Hello group, > > I would like to setup an Asterisk Business GTG. > > The meeting would give us business owners the chance to > connect with each other and share and learn from one another. > It would definitely be a great way to help us all build our > businesses to be as successful as we all aspired for them to be. > > What I wanted to see from this email is how many of us would > be willing to come out one night for me to organize something > really nice for us as a group to get together once a month or > something like that. > > Let me know if you're interested > > Kristian > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/339 - Release > Date: 5/14/2006 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/339 - Release > Date: 14/05/2006 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/339 - Release Date: 14/05/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/339 - Release Date: 5/14/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/339 - Release Date: 5/14/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/339 - Release Date: 5/14/2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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