In Search of th' Old South

I decided to take a break from reviewing Squidoo lenses that interested me and see what other home pages of hobby sites are out there.

If you think the Deep South is full of psychotics, this site makes no attempt to convince you that The South is sane. Quite the contrary, they actually have a page for South Haters titled "The Lost Art of South Bashing" to encourage excellence in South bashing. If that isn't neighborly and showing hospitality (another of this site's specialties), I don't know what is. The site basically tries to identify and show the things that makes the South unique and that give it "character." That generally translates to ku klux klan night riders but this is no hate site and there are no pictures of lynchings, bombings, arson, or other acts of the devil (although I would not put it past them to add that later). This site is mostly genteel and features Southern belles.

One warning: the site is migrating to different software and so I may re-review them when it is upgraded and expanded.

Enjoy and watch your back!

In Search of th' Old South is found at this link --
http://southern-belle.tripod.com/

Guide to Intergalactic Travel

Defiantly hyper-specialized, this Squidoo lens frankly excludes those without an interest in the subject (like the Immortality lens in that regard).

It is exactly what it says: intergalactic travel. Not interstellar and not interplanetary. If you don't know the difference, like the site says, you don't belong here.

Guide to Intergalactic Travel --

http://www.squidoo.com/intergalactic_travel

Google search for venture capital, part 3

I got a response from an email I sent to an American venture capital firm. If I abruptly drop this blog, then you'll know I went on to bigger and better (meaning more lucrative) things. Not to worry though, I have a lifetime of disappointments to prevent me from having high expectations.

No luck yet finding any Israeli venture capital firms online. Due to lack of venture or any other capital on its home turf Israeli companies in the 70s turned to Wall Street to fuel their expansion. The first generation of venture capital funds began to operate in the late 1980s and this movement accelerated in 1990s. Local and international "money men" were noticing that Israel had become second only to the United States with its number of start-up companies.

I now have names of Israeli venture capital firms but no contact information or information about the specialties of each firm. VC's tend to specialize in different industries.

Views

View is a Squidoo lens with a theme I can't figure out. It is about views. Scenic views, points of view, views as in opinions, and even ABC's "The View."

Have a view at --

http://www.squidoo.com/Viewpoint

Google search for venture capital, part 2

Directory of venture capital firms, angel investors, sample ...

Directory of venture capital resources and related services.

This is an intermediary. Okay if you want that. I don't want an intermediary charging me money to get money.

http://www.vfinance.com/

National Venture Capital Association

Aims to foster greater understanding of the importance of venture capital to the United States economy and to support entrepreneurial activity.

I have an directory from them. How old I won't say except it shows how long I have been looking for money and why I have such a negative view of American investors. That said, if you're going to deal with American VC (that stands for venture capital not Viet Cong), then deal with them direct and not through an inrtermediary.

Believe it or not, I actually have a good opinion of this association despite my personal situation --

http://www.nvca.org/

Google search for venture capital

First sponsored link:

VENTURE Capital

www.NextLevelFunding.com Working capital with No Collateral & PG of owner- Up to $250K Fast!

This is business loans. Venture capital generally connotes equity not debt. For debt, you can go to a bank and American banks are notoriously hostile to startups.

Second sponsored link:

Venture Capital

www.amerifinancial.com Venture capital for early-stage tech, medical & consumer companies.

I have initiated contact and am awaiting response.

Third sponsored link was a business brokerage. Where are you supposed to get the money to buy one of the businesses they sell? Obviously from venture capital or running up your credit cards or begging from relatives (who have no clue and will hate you when you lose their nest egg and you will never again be welcome at family gatherings).

Advent

Wow, they've even commercialized Advent the season before Christmas, which for those who don't know, starts on December 25th. Most uninformed people think the Christmas season ends at midnight on December 24th, which is why so many trees are out on the curb by noon on Christmas Day. Understandable, since commercialism in the retail sector starts putting out Christmas stuff before Thanksgiving. We all have seen Christmas stuff before Halloween. And I used to work for a store that opened and still opens its Christmas shop (I kid you not) in August! Every year. Some of you can guess which retail chain.

Any way, Advent is supposed to be almost a full month (four weeks or so) of prayer, fasting (starving to you godless atheists), and quiet sober reflection before you drink yourself into a coma and gorge yourself almost as much as you did on Thanksgiving. If I was going to preach at you or psycho-analyze you, I'd say that you were trying to fill the emptiness which you need to fill with either Jesus or something meaningful depending on whether I was wearing my preacher hat or had you on my Freudian couch. Either way, something to think about.

As always, I wander off on pointless tangents as a pretext to minor remarks about the link or links. In this case, Advent dot net, "the leading Christmas Advent Calendars Site on the Net."

http://www.advent.net/

When I typed in Advent dot edu, net, org, and com I expected some Seventh Day Adventist site or something better. Dot com is an investment management software site. In view of my foregoing rants (please re-read my Thanksgiving rant), do I really need to say anything about Wall Street?