A few things, we do have funding (Demo cost as does mobile development of a year and a half). The photo was photo shopped, but you can see us at the Demo’ing the actual product. (soon on 10,200 screens)

Sad thing is, I am pretty sure I know who you are. I remember actually reaching out to you a few times to find ways we could partner and win in this vast fertile space. It’s a shame that in these tough times startups like ours can’t reach out to help lift each other up and learn together in honest coopetition. (we are both still learning aren’t we?)

I’ll give it to you…I can be about 30% dumbass..no seriously I’ve seen it. However As far as the impugning of the rest of the team… I’d invite you to look at them more closely (sourceforge, VMware, Sun), or peek at our very active advisory board (founder of match, cso amazon, IDG). You would be hard pressed to find dumbasses there. I am sorry that the startup life has made your passion seem like seething petty bitterness.

As all Startups now is the time for us at Skout to either make it happen, or make our way toward the little dip which we call the Deadpool. It is the way of life we proudly chose when we insanely made our way towards the religion of Entrepreneurialism.

However, as I proudly look at the talented engineers hard at work late at night sitting across from me as I write to you, I consider our present traction, the positive metrics, and our ability to begin monetizing. I think we might just make it. If not I am proud of the effort of all those around me.

Either way, give me a call and let’s chat about your concerns sometime, and let’s let the pundits, politicians, and bloggers call each other names.
Hiding behind pseudonyms and pelting verbal jabs because your traction is null is…well its not indicative of having even the slightest bit of respect for yourself or your teams ability to figure this shit out and survive.

I think for start ups like “us” Skout and “You Guys” our energy should be focused on product, people, and perseverance, not pettyness.

respectfully
redg-

DUMBASSES.

And, BTW, they have NO investors (other than bootstrapping) and with insights and goals as they’re describing, they won’t get any.

FAIL.

Check out the photo from ecast website:

http://www.ecastcentral.com/

those girls and the hardware look pretty familiar, no?

I think it’s very relevant…and if you were skout’s investors you might want to call ecast’s investors and ask them about their wonderful experience building a network in bars.

Building a network of that size across independent bars, nightclubs, and restaurants is an enormous undertaking. Skout’s plans are just another pie-in-the-sky approach to the digital out-of-home media marketplace. The Company is better off partnering with an existing out-of-home network like ECast or TouchTunes with existing interactive screens in bars and nightclubs.

My recommendation is that the Company focus on its core competencies – building out is mobile social network – and leave the digital signage piece to a well-entrenched partner in the industry. They should look toward the aforementioned network owners, as well as SeeSaw Networks, a digital signage network aggregator with access to over 25,000 locations.

Are you thinking straight?

Did anyone see their DEMO? Were they drunk?

For a moment, forget about the complete unrealistic nature of a 10,000 screen digital signage network at the cost of $4K each (oh, plus install and maintenance and internet and electric and oh yeah, the revenue model?).

Oh wait, I cant’ forget about that.

Bars are exactly where this will be most useful.