Welcome to Smuggle Me

As many of you know I’ve been participating in PayPerPost pretty much since the beginning. It’s been a pretty great experience. I’ve made a stack of cash and met a lot of really interesting people. That hits 2 core components of blogging. At least they are 2 of my core blogging components.

Well, I must admit that I’m a little envious of a venture capitalist named Dan Rua. From what I’ve seen Dan is a true believer in the PayPerPost vision of consumer generated advertising. He believes in PayPerPost so much he helped put together $3 million in financing. Not a bad way to start a business. Dan has been great for PayPerPost and I honestly think that PayPerPost is going to do great things for Dan. I guess that’s what venture capital is meant to do.

My envy of Dan doesn’t really come from his ability to make money investing in PayPerPost. Sure, I’d love to get a piece of PayPerPost too. Once they allow me to post for shares of their company instead of cash I’ll be signing up immediately. However, my jealousy of Dan stems from his access to all the PayPerPost financials. I’d personally love to check out PayPerPost’s financial models.

I know that I’m a bit odd. Who wants to look at financial statements? Well, I do. I’m serious about this. I’m so interested in financial statements, entrepreneurship, and business that I’ve written my own business plan which won the Donald W. Reynolds Nevada Governor’s Cup. I’m currently taking that same plan to USF-PSI International Business Plan Competition in San Francisco and probably the New Venture Championship in Portland. Plus, I’m working on a new plan to enter into the Nevada Governor’s Cup. Dan, are you interested in investing in my idea? I’m talking to a couple angel investors now.

Well, you can check out Dan’s Florida Venture Capital blog to learn more about Dan. It’s an interesting read. I’ll also forgive him for being a Florida Gators fan. I also must mention that Dan’s best blog post so far is his thoughts on the FVCC 2006. I loved his succinct style and ability to narrow the concepts down to its core.