From: Dennis Fantoni (df@tdc-broadband.dk)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 10:49:13 MDT
> This is way too long already. But there's my most recent idea.
>
> Emlyn
Good idea, it extends the ordinary idea "internet based global scheduler"
with all the wireless gizmos. As a software developer, i have developed
several single user and company wide calendering and scheduling systems. I
also have contact to two former employees from the latest and largest
scenduler project we made, so i could put together an experienced team in
very short time. ( A team that had a track record, as well as deep knowledge
with this kind of systems )
Rough plan for action would be ( i think )
1) Get established as one of the widely used internet based scheduling
solutions. ( make it free, make it superior to yahoo calender and others -
this should not be that difficult )
2) ramp it up by supporting everything internet enabled and wireless ( this
is technically quite easy if you have it in mind when creating the system)
3) when half the western world are customers, sell out to someone who wants
the eyeballs, or figure some way to earn a respectacle revenue from the
service.
If someone was interested in funding, i can have the initial developer team
and the first generation of an infrastructure ready in months. It can be run
as a project that scales up slowly, keeping cost down until there is a
working product.
The only developer team i can think of that would be more up to the task
would be the developers at microsoft who are behind outlook. They probably
know exactly how to do it right from scratch if they had a second chance -
and they probably have quite a lot of resources backing their efforts. I'd
be surprised if not microsoft launches a service like you describe within
the next 3-4 years anyway. It'd be handy to have a runnoing one, that you
could sell to them.
Of course, if You pull it off, the reward when selling the company or being
taken over would most probably be in the triple digit million euro range.
( look at similar companies and their worth )
/Dennis
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