{"id":2006,"date":"2009-09-16T17:58:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T01:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2009-09-17T15:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T23:17:00","slug":"recombo-2005-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/2009\/09\/16\/recombo-2005-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Recombo 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this was an interesting pitch.<\/p>\n<p>To be perfectly honest I have a hard time actually visualing what it is recombo does.\u00a0 They obviously do work in network intregration and network servicing, but as an EVA I would need to clarify specifically how they function and what services they provide before I can decide if the long term future of the company is something I want to be involved in.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, because they have been growing over the past few years there must be some substance to the products and services they provide.\u00a0 I&#8217;m intriguied by the <em>lighthouse<\/em> client they have and think that is a particularly good sign.\u00a0 Its allowed them to expand significantly; hopefully the pace of expansion is appropriate for the company.\u00a0 I can envision many scenarios where they either expand to quickly and lack resources to sustain the company or are left shortstaffed or lacking in material requirements.\u00a0 With that in mind, I think Brad McFee has done a good job of explaining how his company will cope with the expansion.<\/p>\n<p>As an EVA I actually liked his exit stragety; he was pragmatic and regocnised that ultimately everything has a price.\u00a0 Although I may not necessarily agree from a moral standpoint, from a bussiness perspective its impossible to deny that the end goal how to make the most money from your venture.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, since I don&#8217;t completely understand the business plan and haven&#8217;t seen any solid financial data I would be a bit wary about putting my own money into it.\u00a0 That doesn&#8217;t mean I wouldn&#8217;t do it eventually, but I certainly would need more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this was an interesting pitch. To be perfectly honest I have a hard time actually visualing what it is recombo does.\u00a0 They obviously do work in network intregration and network servicing, but as an EVA I would need to clarify specifically how they function and what services they provide before I can decide if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mod02business-bootcamp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}