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Adeo Ressi is Founding Member of TheFunded.com, an online community of 12,000 CEOs to research, rate, and review funding sources worldwide. Adeo also runs the Founder Institute, a mentoring program that helps entrepreneurs launch hundreds of world-class companies each year. The Institute is the eight start-up that Adeo has founded or built, four of which were acquired and three of which are still operating.
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Adeo Ressi is Founding Member of TheFunded.com, an online community of 12,000 CEOs to research, rate, and review funding sources worldwide. Adeo also runs the Founder Institute, a mentoring program that helps entrepreneurs launch hundreds of world-class companies each year. Over the course of his career, Adeo was an early pioneer in the growth of the World Wide Web, an advocate for the burgeoning private space exploration industry, and a champion of casual games and related entertainment
Adeo was most recently the founder and former CEO of Game Trust, Inc., the leading community and ecommerce software platform for online casual game play. Game Trust, Inc. was sold to RealNetworks, Inc. (RNWK) on October 1st, 2007, for an undisclosed amount. Mr. Ressi secured over $15 MM in venture capital and acquired two companies to build Game Trust, as well as orchestrated large licensing opportunities with AOL, Viacom, MiniClip, and other global media brands. In 1994, he was a founder of Total New York, Inc., one of the first advertiser-supported web media and entertainment properties. The property was later sold to AOL and Tribune Media, becoming AOL Digital Cities. In 1995, he founded methodfive, inc., a strategic web development firm focused on the media and entertainment industry. methodfive developed strategies and systems for global media companies including The New York Times, The BBC, NewsCorp, The Economist, Scripps, and Fox Networks. As CEO, he secured a $2 million investment from PricewaterhouseCoopers and grew the company to 250 employees worldwide, selling the company to Xceed for $88 million in 2000. Mr. Ressi was then Chief Strategy Officer of Xceed, Inc., the NASDAQ-listed web architecture and design firm with over 1,000 employees worldwide. At Xceed, he oversaw the filing of a secondary stock offering, organized complimentary service offerings across 13 offices worldwide, and developed the first intra-company financial projections. Before founding Game Trust in 2002, Mr. Ressi founded Sophos Partners, a venture consulting and turnaround firm with offices in New York, Boston, Sao Paulo, and Tokyo, where he acted as interim CEO of EBusiness.com, an idealab company.
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The X PRIZE Board and special guests at a meeting in Palo Alto.
Mikhail Gorbachev at the Global Green Awards dinner in New York City.
Adeo Ressi, President Clinton, and Jeff Dachis at a Friends of Hillary fundraising event in New York City.
My beautiful daughter, Kali, and my wife, Cindy, in Aarhus, Denmark.
Dear Mr. Ressi,
You may find this series to be helpful in establishing the City of the Future. Only one film of the series has been shown so far. Food is an important part of any society.
Stanford University Ethics in Society presents:
Ethics of Food and the Environment
This February, March, and April the public has the opportunity to participate in an exciting series of films, lectures, and discussions on the ethics of food production in the United States and around the globe. The series is sponsored by Stanford’s Department of Ethics in Society . It is free and open to the public.
Three well-known experts in the field of food will address topics relating to industrial food production and the environment and explore of questions relating to organic food, processed food, genetically modified food. and food choices. All three speakers have published highly acclaimed, recent works on food and food production. They are Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals and In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Marion Nestle, author of What to Eat, and Peter Singer, author of The Way We eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter.
Five thought-provoking films focus on various aspects of food today. Stanford professors with expertise in the subject matter will lead discussions after each screening.
Speakers:
March 3. Lecture: Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: The Omnivore’s Solution,
7:30pm in Kresge Auditorium, Stanford.
March 6. Lecture: Marion Nestle, “What to Eat: Personal Responsibility vs. Social
Responsibility”5:30-7:00pm in Annenberg Auditorium in the Cummings Art
Bldg. , Stanford.
March 7. Discussion: Discussion Seminar with Marion Nestle tentatively 10am-12pm
(location TBA), Stanford.
April 23. Lecture: Peter Singer, All Animals Are Equal – But in What Sense of
Equality?”7pm, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford.
Films remaining to be shown:
Feb. 21. Film: “Super Size Me,†7pm Annenberg Auditorium, Stanford. Post film discussion led by Dr. Christopher Gardner
April 10. Film: “Darwin’s Nightmare,†7pm Annenberg Auditorium, Stanford. Post film
discussion led by Dr. Rosamond Naylor
More information: 650-723-0997 or http://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu
Hi Adeo! Long time no speak. Can I bore you to death and talk about inflation? I am curious what your opinion is. Below are my thoughts on the current US economy with a focus on inflation. Please agree with me, disagree with me, tell me what personal observations you have!
I walked into a coffee shop in Grand Central Station today. A large cup of coffee usually costs $1.50. I was surprised to learn that the price had increased to $1.75. Maybe they were just adjusting to the market price or the “Starbucks Standard”. The clerk then directed me to a sign that stated “We are unfortunately compelled to implement price increases. This is due to the increase in prices for both wheat and dairy.” Agriculture prices are significantly increasing. I also watched a great piece on 60 minutes about the effect of bees and pollination and how that effects US farms. Oil and natural gas prices are through the roof. Gold, historically considered a gauge of inflation, is approaching $1000. The dollar continues to weaken against the EURO and Latin American currencies as a whole. How about college tuition, or healthcare expenses? What direction are they going in?
Yet, the Federal Reserve continues to cut rates, both the Fed Funds and Discount Rate. Sure, these moves help bail out the banking system, but should the US be cutting rates in a period of increased inflation. Bernanke needs to get real about inflation. How can our government exclude energy and food? Let’s be honest and upfront rather than utilize data that is simply not relevant! I would argue that we are currently experiencing stagflation, or a period of inflation combined with stagnation or slow growth. I am concerned with the what I am reading compared to what I am actually experiencing. I am confident that the monoline insurers (monoline insurers guarantee the timely repayment of bond principal and interest when an issuer defaults) will be bailed out (FGIC, MBIA, AMBAC) because my opinion is that financial institutions are better off with them in business, then with them out of business, for now. This might even be a temporary boost for the equity markets. Going forward though, will major banks trust these monoline insurers, or will they go to Warren Buffet for bond insurance, a business Berkshire has recently entered.
I am writing to you because I am curious to learn your opinion and to see if you are having a similar or different experience. If I am correct, how will this effect the vc community, your investments, and your family?
I look forward to hearing your response.
Best Regards,
Stephen
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I am a registered professional engineer in CA, OR, WA, NM, AZ and NV and a helluva good AutoCAD drafter.
If I can help in any way, I will work for free. I try for 24-hr turn-around, not 2-weeks to start scheduling.
Tom Mason
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Having read “Show Me The Money” in “Business Week, I would be delighted to send you a copy of our financing plans and invite you to be an angel investor in our Company. May I have an e-mail or postal address?