[TriLUG] Starting / Running a business???

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On Monday October 13 2003 10:35 pm, Phillip Rhodes wrote:
> Hi, fellow Tri-LUG'ers, I'm looking for some info...  specifically
> from any Tri-LUG'ers who have founded / run their own business
> based on / around open-source software.
>
> Right now, I have reason to believe that the company I'm currently
> working for, might not be around much longer.  In the process of
> deciding what
> to do next, I find myself thinking more and more about trying to
> start my own business.  So, if any of you guys or gals have been
> through that before,
> and are willing to spend some time discussing things, I'd REALLY like
> to sit down and talk with you (maybe over lunch? Crazy Fire anybody?)
>
> I don't really have a lot of specifics in mind yet, as far as what
> I'd like to talk about. Just a general discussion, really, of all the
> stuff involved.
> I DO have a general idea of what the business I'd be founding would
> be doing, but this is all still very speculative of course. 
> Basically, I'm just
> interested in chatting, asking questions, bouncing ideas around, etc.
>
> Anybody who'd be willing to sit and talk for a while, please let me
> know.  If there's several of you, maybe we can all meet as a group
> even, if everybody's agreeable, and the timing works out.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phillip R.

You can count me in, let me know when everyone is getting togehter :-) I 
am in the process of trying to change my company from one that does 
generic consulting to one that sells our own software applications.
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