Originally Posted by
rwanttaja
Who *I* am is pretty easy to discover. I've put my name on every Internet posting for the past 30 years.
Sorry: I say again, we don't know who you are. Your first posting in this forum was an attempt to find investors for a company that you won't even identify. Just like you won't identify yourself.
I don't know who Floatsflyer is, nor Infidel, nor av-mech. But they haven't tried to hit me up for money, either. I've crossed swords with Floats a time or two, but he argues with logic, not claims of knowledge or experience that he refuses to back up to protect his anonymity.
You're trying? Prove it. Show an aircraft diagram, give the qualifications of your designer, post a development schedule.
Oooh, scatological comment. Momma must be so proud.
Are you sure you're cut out for this? I've been working in the homebuilt world off-and-on for 25 years or so, and have met a lot of sales folks from various homebuilt companies. They've all been incredibly level-headed men (haven't met any female ones yet). You dispute something with them, and they stay cool and calm. Try argue with them, and the deflect the conversation back to the topics they want to cover. See if you can spot the common theme from these quotes you've made over the last couple of days.
"I didn't realize that I had to have a full blown business plan with drawings and technical data just to bounce an idea off of a group of people."
"I'm not going to blast our plans and data on the internet."
"No, it is not Jim Bede. I don't even know who that is." [they don't have Wikipedia in Indiana?]
"There hasn't been discussion, there has been rock throwing and me trying to dodge."
"I've been asked nicely very little."
"I think I'm done here." [Well, apparently not]
"But I don't see how my inability to share intimate details on the internet automatically labels me as having a bad rap or a snake oil salesmen?"
Pick it out, yet?
The words "I" and "me".
None of these very good salesmen who I've worked with would allow their egos to arise, in a business situation. Their focus was on the product they were marketing, and nothing would distract them. Nor would they say things that would perpetuate the unwanted exchange...which, of course, you have been doing all along. "...your jumping on me..." "a grumpy old man that wants to take a turd" "It's sad that so many of you have been so jaded by past products/people".
I repeat, are you sure you're cut out for this? It's likely to get nastier when you actually start having meetings with investors. These people are likely to be a bit abrupt. You are definitely the inferior in these situations and they'll make sure you know it.. Can you subsume your ego enough to work with them? Look at those quotes of yours in the last paragraph...are you REALLY going to say those kinds of things to potential investors?
Kids these days....
Ron Wanttaja