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From: Perry Merritt (perry, merrittclan dot com)
Date: 2001.11.26 - 13.22 MST


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Sorry for the confussion. I left with the impression that Paul would be willing to give us our initial round of funding, just not until January.

Dan asked me if you guys would like to meet Thursday or Friday to discuss this stuff face to face. Anyone interested?



-----Original Message-----
From:    Don jessup djessup72, yahoo dot com
Sent:    Sun, 25 Nov 2001 21:44:09 -0800 (PST)
To:      antera, cryptofreak dot org
Subject: Re: Home


    I understand that Paul is ineterested and willing
  to help  and I imagine his experience would be
extremely valuable.
 I'm still not clear on a question that June asked.
   Do you really think Paul will be giving us money
  in January?  This last e-mail make's it sound very
  unlikely. 

   
  
--- Perry Merritt <perry, merrittclan dot com> wrote:
> I think Paul is interested. He's asked for a
> business plan that he can present to his investment
> group and to friends of his here in the states. Dan
> and I have been working on it this weekend. I just
> sent him my stuff. THe plan is to get it back to
> Paul midweek this week. He sent Dan an email after
> we got back apologizing for not giving us a check
> and offering to support us as we seek funding. 
> 
> We need to write some other things that I sure don't
> have a problem with getting your help on. 
> 
> We need a whitepaper that describes the architecture
> and the two products DataExtender and TeraGuard
> (ARVM and ADML). 
> 
> We also need to start filing out patent forms. There
> is a bunch of information at
>
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/design/index.html
> 
> 
> I figured on three patent attempts, The ability to
> capture file activity for the purpose of providing
> intelligent data management (adml), The ability to
> provide policy-based management of kernel and
> application software (portal), and The ability to
> utilize applications in a policy-based storage
> system (ITK). 
> 
> So if you'd like to start working on any of those it
> would be helpful.
> 
> 
> We got to play on Saturday. We visted the Tower of
> London, took a city cruise down the Thames to
> Westminster, heard Big Ben chime, saw Parlament,
> rode the tube to St Paul's, (went inside, but Dan
> wouldn't pay to see the really cool parts) and then
> rode the train out of Paddington station to Reading
> and on to Ditcot. Sunday we walked outside the hotel
> and saw Wallingford castle (or what remains of it).
> It was right behind our hotel in Wallingford. On the
> way back from the meeting on Monday we drove through
> Oxford. Didn't eat any beef, but got to go out for
> Indian one night, oh boy.
> 
> Have I ever mentioned that I hate computers? I
> installed my wireless network this weekend. $75
> billion dollars and a day of work later, now I can't
> play network games, one computer crashes in netbuei,
> and my DSL won't work. 
> 
> Perry
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:    June Mullins junemullins, earthlink dot net
> Sent:    Sat, 24 Nov 2001 14:18:08 -0700
> To:      antera, cryptofreak dot org
> Subject: Re: Home
> 
> 
> Sorry the money wasn't immediately forthcoming.  The
> only thing I'm 
> afraid of
> is how serious Paul is - is he really going to be
> giving us money in 
> January?  I actually
> don't mind waiting until then - I'm enjoying having
> the time off in the 
> meantime. What's
> the next step for us?  What can we do to help until
> then?
> 
> Did you get a chance to play at all in England.  I
> hope you did some fun 
> things too,
> over the weekend.  You didn't eat the beef, did you?
> 
> I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  I did -
> but too much food!
> 
>             June
> 
> Perry and Lorae Merritt wrote:
> 
> > Dan and I got home around 5:00 tonight.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > While the trip wasn't exactly what we had hoped
> for, it was still a 
> > good learning experience. Dan and I came back with
> a list of things to 
> > get done, surrounding a business plan, getting a
> whitepaper on the 
> > technology and getting patents filed.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I'm sorry you were in the dark while we were gone,
> I thought Dan had 
> > sent you something Monday, but I didn't see it
> when I got home.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Monday we met with a guy that wanted to provide us
> with a CEO and to 
> > help us find funding. All he wanted in return was
> a large sum of stock 
> > and cash. We're going to try some other avenues
> first.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > We had a meeting with a technical/sales guy that
> Barry knows on 
> > Saturday. He thinks the products are solid ideas.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Paul, whom we met with on Tuesday, also very much
> likes what he saw. 
> > He wants to put RAID controllers (that he already
> builds and ships) 
> > out on a fibre channel behind our IMU and wants to
> stripe across the 
> > controllers. That way he can loos a drive and the
> controller will 
> > protect the data and he can lose a controller and
> we'll protect the 
> > data. He has a lot of legacy hardware in the field
> already and likes 
> > the idea of being able to extend the life of it
> with out solution.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Unfortunately, as I said from England, Paul won't
> have his investment 
> > money until January. He is also part of an
> investment group that is 
> > looking for something in Febuary. They may be our
> big round of funding 
> > after the initial bit from Paul. He also said he
> knew people here in 
> > the states that would be good sources for money.
> Dan should be getting 
> > conversations set up with those people in the
> coming weeks.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Perry
> > 
> >  
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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