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BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS: PART TWO An
Interview with Brian Michael Bendis by Adrian Reynolds
Brian Michael Bendis is a writer of rare talent. If you're going to compare
him to anyone, you'd best look outside the narrow confines of comics to some
of the greats of crime fiction. James Ellroy maybe. Or to one of Bendis's own
heroes, David Mamet. He shares with them an ability to convey intricately plotted
stories through the actions and dialogue of well-depicted and utterly credible
characters. Those characters go about their business for reasons more involved
than the fact that there are 22 pages to fill, and two fights and a chase before
the final twist is reached. There's something much more interesting going on,
and that's what I wanted to look at in this second part of the interview.
"It's just a bunch of people. No heroes, no villains, no winners, no losers,
just people!" (from JINX)
"The only thing that keeps our tired asses from killing each other over food
and shelter, is our ability as a species to look inside ourselves and examine...If
you ever hope to evolve...you have got to take the time for some introspection."
(from JINX)
"Any asshole can keep their shit together on the good days. But the. shit day?
That's when you show your character." (from POWERS 1)
Over the range of Bendis's work, there are themes that crop up time and
again. Especially if you read a whole stack of his work (like you'd do if you
were going to interview him), you can't help but be struck by a humanism at
the heart of his writing. Sure, he writes about people who get involved in some
pretty heavy situations and behave unpleasantly to resolve them. But we're talking
about writing that's a world away from the hero and villain stereotypes that
continue to typify the vast majority of comics published since the medium started.
Talking to a writer about how they write and what it means to them can be
a tedious and self-indulgent task. Fortunately, Bendis is as acute on his own
processes and concerns as he is about the industry. It's a topic we got on to
via talking about his experiences with the internet.
Scott Morse and myself and Jim Mahfood and some other folks have signed up
with this company called Thrave. It's just like we did with our comic book careers,
you don't wait around for people to hire you, you just make your own comic books
and wait for them to come to you, we're going to do the same with our film projects.
Instead of waiting around for someone to make JINX, I'll show you what
I want it to look like. We'll write and direct it ourselves.
How did that come about?
We were approached by a very intelligent and savvy man of great taste called
Reid Gershbein who worked for Pixar, who came to us and said 'I want to put
fully animated product on the web, and I want to sell it on home video when
it's done'. He's an animator, and his attitude is 'I think the animators should
run the company'. There's a lot of this about at the moment, you get some weird
offers from internet companies saying 'Here's $2000, we own everything'. I don't
think so. But Reid came with a legitimately intelligent offer and I'm psyched
to do it. It's a bold new world for me.
Scott Morse posted some of his VOLCANIC REVOLVER material on the web.
It's an Italian mob story from the 30s, and it's knock-out. We're getting to
a level where we can put material on the web that doesn't look and feel like
everything else out there. All my life, this is the kind of behaviour that I've
loved. This is the energy that I surround myself with, guys who just want to
make their stuff, and never mind what the kids want to see, what the people
want to read.
It's the wrong way round.
Exactly. I have a story to tell, and I hope you really like it. I don't see
why once you've established yourself in one medium you should suddenly compromise.
You see some guys who've made it in comics bend over for the film industry and
do all kinds of weird crap they'd never do in comics.
If you play your cards right, the money really isn't that different if you
consider the time it takes to do it. Why do people raise their skirts in one
medium when they talk about integrity in the other?
But you're happy about it at the minute.
We're at the larva stage with Thrave. All these hi-falutin' words I'm saying
now could blow up in my face in six months time.
You're aware of what you're opening yourself to?
It's a bold thing. You get that scary good feeling of something you're not
used to, you're being challenged. You should never escape that feeling.
It's that feeling that tells you you're alive.
Something about what Bendis said there reminded me of a sequence in GOLDFISH,
where Bendis uses a quote from Goethe about a kind of power. Not the sort that
needs a cape and a mask, but the power we've all got to make choices and commitments:
"...the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All
sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred.
A whole stream of events issue from the decision, raising in one's favor all
matter of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man
could have dreamed could have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you
can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it - begin now."
Bold. That's a word that applies well to his attitude. And never mind his
hairstyle. Anyway, that got me thinking more generally about the themes of his
work. Men getting destroyed by women for instance, a classic noir theme.
Male paranoia is one of them. That's not something I purposely went after,
but when you have to turn your stories into one-sentence pitches for film these
ideas kind of stand out. It's always some guy that gets put upon, and every
woman in the story is a futz to him. Don't think I haven't noticed.
Beyond all the violence and deceit, there's a humanist approach at the heart
of what you do.
It's like with Martin Scorsese, everything he works on is a personal movie
to him somehow. Even Cape Fear meant something to him. He applied his personal
themes to the work. All of my favourite writers and storytellers do this. Not
a lot of them do it in comics unless it's directly autobiographical. When I
was running round telling everyone the reason I was so excited about writing
Spiderman because I am Peter Parker. I'm not joking around. It is easy as hell
to write this book because I am him. If you don't like my Peter Parker, you're
pretty much saying you don't like me.
It's got to come from somewhere real for you.
All these books aren't about the stories and characters, they're about what
was going on with me. I'm not saying I'm a bounty hunter or any of that, but
the theme of JINX was 'You find yourself on a road and you don't know
how you got there'. And that was a theme that was haunting me at the time, and
that's what JINX was about.
A lot of the time you won't even be aware of it.
When I was adapting GOLDFISH for Miramax I had to look at the book again.
I never look at things again once they're done. But when you're hired to adapt
your own work, I had to crack open a copy of GOLDFISH and see what's
up. Thing is, I don't even remember what I wrote there. I know the overall story,
but there's like little gags and stuff you don't remember writing because it's
just what struck you as funny at the time. And you look at it and laugh, which
is the most arrogant thing you can do as a writer.
If you don't enjoy it, what hope has anyone else got?
You're reading it like you've never heard it before, and people think you're
nuts. Right in the middle of GOLDFISH there's this big scene with Goldfish
and Lauren having this big scene that's so intense it doesn't have artwork.
It's just the two of them yelling at each other. And I read it and as I did
I started laughing because it has nothing to do with the story. It has to do
with the girl that I broke up with. I just laid into her in the pages of this
book. It had nothing to do with the comic book. That scene in film script form
was 44 pages long, all dialogue. And you know how long it is in the finished
I dread to think. 2 pages?
They walk up. Goldfish goes 'I want my kid'. Lauren goes 'It ain't gonna happen'.
And they walk away. In the movie, that would be great. But in the comic, that's
who I was then. I'll never go back and change a word. It just goes on and on.
Supposedly this couple broke up 10 years ago.
But they're still very bitter.
I can't remember who I dated 10 years ago.
Come on, there's a kid involved.
That's true.
But all of that is in there.
The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning
that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic,
and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters. The meaning POWERS
has...it's very much what my mind is about right now, and my life. Even though
they're genre characters, they're very personal parts of yourself, and what
you see in other people. A lot of time in comic book writing there's a lack
of dimension to even the best characters in comics. Any kind of other writing
it's called contradictory behaviour.
And it's fine, that's what people do.
You - Adrian - don't act the same with me like you do with your mum. Or your
friends. You act like a different person, react different in different situations.
In one issue of a comic that's very difficult to get across without it looking
like bad writing. But over a period of 14 comics you can establish a tapestry
of characteristics about a person that makes them three-dimensional. It's a
balancing act. There's no right or wrong way of doing it, but that kind of writing
is very inspirational to me.
In JINX I was trying to get that across. Here's this character, Jinx.
She has to act the tough guy but she doesn't like to act that way. We should
see her not liking it, we should see her hating herself for it, because I know
a lot of people hate themselves once they open their mouths. And we should see
her walking through a room of people and seeing them for what they are, a room
without labels.
In JINX, you really see that in the scene in the mall, watching all
the people go by. There's a real interest in looking at people, not heroes and
Comics is a pulp genre where you have your heroes and villains, and twists
and variations. And when people start screaming that comics might be dead, you
go 'No, maybe we've just tapped out that part'. The best superhero comics are
those which have gone a step further in the evolution of the storytelling.
They've broken down the iconography and gone for character writing. It makes
it more interesting. It's tough to do, to embrace the characters on so many
levels and make other people care about it. A lot of the time you're basically
showing your ass. You're taking your clothes off in front of people and if they
don't like what they see...
Well if they don't like your ass they can go and see some hooters at a con.
Exactly. But even pontificating as we are right now, you're supposed to do
all this and be entertaining. People want to read comics.
That's the point to get Zen about it: you just do what you do and people
will respond to it as they will.
This is it. The other theme of JINX, which is very important to me is
that you've got these characters who are off the path in life that they've chosen.
You start at age 20 and you go 'I'm going to be this'. And then you're 30.
'How did I get here?'
'How did I get off the road? In fact, where the fuck is the road?' People don't
pay attention to their daily life grind and realise how far off they are. You
see these people in relationships with their girlfriends or boyfriends where
they're not happy.
The relationship is dictated by hating each other, but it's safe.
This is what you've carved out for yourself. It's odd. And that was very much
on my mind at the time, and that's the theme of JINX.
That's something that seems to run through, people are making the best possible
decisions they can seem to make for themselves at the moment.
They're trying to redeem themselves.
They are making decisions that are appropriate for them. Even if they end
up getting shot a few pages later.
Yes [laughs].
There's a perpetual dance between perception and reality going on in your
You're interested in deception, which is there at a surface level in the
recurrence of card games and capers. And it goes further than that, you get
a character like Visa and there are more layers of deception concerning his
name and his past, versus the way he portrays himself.
It's just the way I see a lot of things. I have an utter fascination with the
art of the grift, someone's ability to trick someone else. It's fascinating
to me on one hand, and on the other I'm constantly examining the dark side of
someone who would be that kind of person. If someone shows me a way to trick
someone out of money...fascinated, I'm utterly fascinated. I love to show other
people that stuff, the card tricks and conning. But then again you examine it
and go 'what's wrong with you, that you need to trick people?'
There's something about putting that much skill and imagination and willpower
into something so trivial.
Seinfeld has a joke about that: 'If the people at Unemployment knew how much
effort my friend put into being unemployed, they would give him a raise.'
From my own experience of the British welfare system a few years back, let
me tell you how right that is. One of the interesting questions then is about
what people choose to do with their time.
The journey is as important as the end. I don't care how long it took you to
get to where you need to get, if you got there the way you wanted to.
How conscious are you of that journey yourself? You seem very focused on
the career that you're developing and where you're going with that.
That's the version of me I'm selling to the audience. But the me who isn't
writing and drawing is...my family is much more important. My wife loves my
books as much as I do, and runs the company, so it all ties in together. There's
a nice synergy, which is what you want. You don't want 'You going to be drawing
all night damn it?' They're intertwined. It is hard to shut off the person who
wants to write. I don't know what it's like not to be a person who writes and
draws. That's how I've made my living since I was a kid. When I was 18 I said
'All I'm going to do is write and draw for a living. As long as I pay my bills,
that's what I'm going to do. As long as I don't have to work at McDonalds any
Was it the McDonalds experience that crystallised that ambition?
[Hoots with laughter] Are you kidding? It's funny. At Pittsburgh, I
was sitting across from a guy who I actually worked with at McDonalds, and we
were just having the time of our lives. Both of us worked our asses off when
we were there. You'll never have to work harder than when you work at McDonalds,
covered in shit and making no money and wearing green polyester.
They've got the ultimate grift going, they give you gold stars instead of
And a burger. I remember the guy who was running the place when I quit. He
put his hand on my shoulder and said 'Brian, you will always have a place here'.
And I know it was meant to be nice, but I looked at him like he'd killed my
dog. Every time I'm wondering whether I'm doing the right thing, I remember
'There's always room for you at McDonalds...' and get back to writing.
It's a good grounding as well, when you start hearing things like 'I try
to cut a deal with DC' or 'I tried to get something going with Paramount'. Well...
I see some of these guys bitching on-line. Everyone's life has got some shit
in it. But writing and drawing for a living...don't whine in public. People
work in horrible jobs that you would never want to do. Don't whine to your inker
'yadda yadda yadda'. People want to hear behind-the-scenes machinations, but
they don't want to hear you bitch. I'm very grateful to be doing what I'm doing,
absolutely, but it's not like I'm doing the 'everything is wonderful' press
junket. It's just that I won't whine.
How do you trace your development in writing over time?
I know what lessons I've learned that have held well for me once I figured
how to apply them. People were reacting better. It's an ongoing arc. I'm not
the same writer I was last year or the year before. I don't know why all of
a sudden the audience is bigger. All I can tell you is I started riding a bicycle
every single day. I get up mid-afternoon, I shower, I ride my bike and I take
off for 6 or 7 hours, pick up some food, do errands, ride maybe 70 miles, and
by the time I've come home I've got everything all figured out. It's like meditation.
No kidding. Right in the middle of GOLDFISH it happened, I became a better
writer once I started managing my personal time better. The other factor is
meeting my wife, who is maybe the best sounding board in all of comics. A huge
fan, who loves reading, and has great ideas. She is so good, that there's not
one friend of mine in comics who doesn't give her things to read.
I also have a friend, I talk about him in FORTUNE & GLORY, he has a
mutant ability... you can tell I'm writing X-MEN now... to look at the
script and see the acts and the arcs and the secondary acts and the secondary
arcs. There's a flowchart in his head and he puts all the pieces in and sees
what's missing. He knows where to connect the dots. It's amazing. And as long
I have these people in my life, I'll never fail. They're there, keeping an eye
on me.
Can you see lessons you've learned from screenplays informing the way you
approach comics?
Writing GOLDFISH was the most intensive on-the-job training I had. I
became enamoured by the 3 Act structure of storytelling. When you're doing comics
there really is no need for you to have a structure: there's an inherent one
you've been around all your life. You know the beats of the story that are working,
you know a twist ending works well, a great opening frame...
It's built-in.
What happened with me was I wrote a couple of things, and then I learned about
it, and I wasn't far off with what I was doing with instinct. JINX I
let take its natural organic pace, which you can do in a novel, but the animated
movie on the web will be a different animal. It's got to keep a story moving.
David Mamet wrote a book called '3 Uses of a Knife', short essays about what
a dramatist's job is. It's fascinating. And there's a book called 'Story' by
Robert McKee, who teaches everyone how to get their shit together. Everyone
goes to his seminars, people from comics, film, TV. By the first 40 pages your
life has changed, I've lent this book out to everyone I know. You don't want
to overlearn it, rules are meant to be broken.
A lot of debate of my writing style is about my dialogue choices that are not
standard for comics. I'm like 'Well, if you've read 50 that do it this way,
will it kill you to read one that does something else?' I want to see something
new. There's a kind of writing style that David Mamet has that comes close to
sexually arousing me. Glengarry Glen Ross. Oleanna. I'm crazed by it. Not just
him, other people too. And there's value from that which comics can learn from.
This isn't new by the way. Howard Chaykin did it 20 years ago. He'd come into
a scene that had already started, usually right in the middle of a sentence,
and whatever that opening was, that's usually the most important part of it.
But you pass it by. And if you read it again you realise 'He told me on the
first page'. I'm writing stuff that costs $2.95 and up so I want you to get
a couple of reads out of it. I write it more than twice. I won't be bored, so
you won't be bored.
On behalf of PopImage I would once again like to thank Brian for participating
in this interview and recommend you check out his site Jinxworld.com. As well as
all his titles of course, you can find more about his work at the site. We would
like to highlight of course, Bendis' charity work, just follow the link off
his site to learn more.
This is Adrian Reynolds' first contribution to PopImage. All characters, titles, images mentioned or shown are copyright and trademark
their respective creators.
Part One - Did you miss the first part then? Check out how this wacky thing started.
POWERS ONLINE - PopImage Presents the Powers Weekly Comic Strip
http://www.jinxworld.com - Bendis' online home..
http://www.wfcomics.com/boards/bendis - Brian Bendis' Message Boards.
this article at the PopImage


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Selim Kaplanoğlu
Selim Kaplanoğlu's latest film, 'Honey', took the Golden Bear at the 6th Berlin Film Festival. We discussed 'Honey', and the Trilogy, with the director.
Perhaps we had sensed something. We met with Semih Kaplanoğlu at his office in Teşvikiye just days before the festival. To our 'Why not?' he replied, 'It's a possibility', adding: "I am confident about the film, but the competition is very strong." And it happened. The possible became reality. Kaplanoğlu's 'Honey' walked off with the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin Film Festival.
Are you satisfied with it?
It went well. Honey is a film in which I had access to ideal conditions, both in the shooting and in the post-production phase. We expended the most effort and energy on 'Honey' of all the films in the trilogy. This was my third film with Artistic Director Nazlı Erayda, and for the first time Naz really understood what I wanted to do. A perfect mesh of dream and reality, which was exactly what I wanted...
Are we going to see the world through the eyes of a six-year-old in the film, or are we going to look at that child as adults?
'Honey' is a film in which dreams have a share. A child's perception of the world is fed not only by objective sensations but also by dreams. We usually find childish emotions in films with a child in the lead role, but in this film the situation is different. The dreams also tell us something. Dream, reality, childhood, pristine nature, life in that nature, struggle... They all come together in harmony in the film, and this reinforces the film's emotional intensity. At the same time, 'Honey' touches on the Biblical story of Joseph and his father Jacob. When it is considered in conjunction with 'Egg' and 'Milk', the first two films in the trilogy, something else emerges. But the connections are not sharp and clear. We can't say that the connection between our childhood and the way we remember it today is apparent on the face of it. A person's discovery of himself is not clear and observable.
What could we say about your discovery of yourself?
What can I say? A person's discovery of himself begins with the realization that his self is useless. The way to discovering one's nature lies through understanding, learning and experiencing that one is not in the world without a reason, and believing that. Believing that, reminding oneself of it, understanding it and contemplating it. Most importantly of all, pondering it intellectually. In the end, the whole point of the effort is to love. To demonstrate love for and devotion to Him, and to make others feel His existence as well.
Did anything in particular inspire or influence you? Any particular incident, or film, or book, or words such that you might say, if that hadn't come my way, my films would never been the way they are, indeed, they might not have been at all?
In 1985 or '86, I watched Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Mirror' on a small beta-max cassette. I was young, I had studied film and watched a lot of films, but the impact of 'Mirror' and the feeling it gave me was what impelled me to actively realize my intention to make films. I saw in that film that cinema is actually another genre of art, a completely spiritual thing.
After your first film, 'Away From Home', we are confronted with a gradually simpler cinematic language in your films. Do you get a better understanding of what you want to do as you do it?
In fact, the primary source is poetry. You know, the way you posed your question a little earlier, as to whether a particular book or film influenced me. It was poetry that opened the door for me. A finished poem is perfect; even one extra comma would be superfluous. There is a harmony forged of words in poetry, and those words are actually anti-language because language means talking, in other words, the thing that separates us from ourselves and others. It is important to overcome the limits imposed by language. Painting liberates us from the confines of language. Poetry and the cinema do too. One three-line poem is worth pages of prose. In my relationship with the cinema, simplification is the single most important discipline I learned from poetry.
Could we say that leaving words behind leads our thoughts to the heart?
That is one aspect of simplification. The important thing is cinema itself, its wholeness and its accessibility to the human heart and soul, not just the eyes and ears. We will never actually see anything with our eyes as long as we cannot also see with our heart. Art is concerned with the heart. Therefore it has to be weighed on an extremely delicate scale. The story, the script, the image, the sound and all the other things must be in complete harmony. They must not come across as distinct entities. Only then will a feeling about the film emerge. There is a simplification in my films, a sense of going deeper and more intensely into the material. What I try to do is to find a correlative in film of our own civilization, our own culture, our own life experience, and to represent it in the spiritual dimension. When you do that, the film simplifies of itself.
It also slows down. Milan Kundera says in 'Slowness' that there is a mysterious connection between slowness and remembering and between speed and forgetting. "A person who is trying to remember something slows his pace. A person who is trying to forget some bad experience he had recently will speed up." What is the slowness in your films trying to remind us of?
We are the only creature that perceives time. When you look at the question this way and consider that time is the raw material of film, you inevitably begin to distinguish between speed and slowness, fracturing and intensifying, prolonging and going deeper. Film today is very fast and tries to make us forget time. Speed means eliminating depth, nuance and detail and proceeding horizontally. Time is very important in our culture. There are the five times of prayer for one thing, and their significance. Art has to have a spiritual side, it has to elevate us, and open up our hearts and emotions.
When you were seeking a location for your film, you toured the Taurus, you looked at the area around Bolu, and in the end you went to Çamlıhemşin and found little Yusuf, in other words, Bora. If you had gotten there twenty days earlier you wouldn't have found him. What role do such if not coincidences then serendipities play in your life?
Serendipity, yes. I was looking for a pristine natural setting, a place where it was difficult even for a person to walk... I went to a lot of places. The area I wanted was around Artvin. I found it on the border with Georgia. But there were problems with permits and it didn't work out. Actually it's best not to force certain things too much. We were looking for a boy in Çamlıhemşin. I saw Bora on a bicycle as I was going by in a car. I stopped and got out and we talked. He was the son of a family that had migrated to Izmir some years back. The family had just returned to Çamlıhemşin twenty days earlier. In other words, if I had gone there twenty days earlier, I wouldn't have found him. What can I say? Bora is a very sensitive boy. He was the perfect complement to the other Yusuf's in the trilogy. He felt it, he wanted it. I don't know how but something happened, and we did it. With patience... The shoot took eight weeks and the boy spent his entire summer vacation with us. He went up in the mountains, he came down from the mountains, he walked, he talked, he never complained. He deserves the most credit for making this film what it is.
The trilogy is finished. It was a long journey. What direction is Semih Kaplanoğlu cinema going to take now?
The Yusuf trilogy was a project that went on for five years without a break. I haven't decided anything yet about what comes after this, but I've got some ideas having to do with historical figures. Abdulhamid, for example, strikes me as a very interesting character. I'd like to do something about him. And something to do with the Süleymaniye [mosque]. The five times of prayer at Süleymaniye, for example. Meanwhile, 'The Spirit of Turkey' is still on the table. What I am going to do next is still a question mark for me, but how I'm going to do it is clear. We don't always make our own decisions. We shall see...
'Honey' is the first film from Turkey to receive the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear since Metin Erksan's 'Susuz Yaz' (Dry Summer) in 1964. Semih Kaplanoğlu attributes the film's success to its actors as well as the natural beauty of Çamlihemşin where it was shot. He invites everyone who took an interest in, supported and shared his joy in the film to Çamlıhemşin, adding: "You'll feel it when you see the film. But you'll understand it for yourself when you go there. There is a completely different world there, a stupendous natural beauty. You simply have to go."


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Todd DuBoeuf's nerves were a wee bit jangly at the Monday Los Angeles press conference to hype the April 14 Brandon Rios-Richard Abril fight. The two men got into a physical skirmish on March 5, at a Miami presser, when the WBA interim lightweight champ Abril showed up to heckle Rios, who was in need of a replacement foe for Yuriorkis Gamboa, who no-showed the presser and flaked on a fight with Rios.
So DuBoef mustered all the patience and good humor he could, after good naturedly warning that he was in no mood for foolishness, when asking Rios and Abril to pose for a promotional photo at the end of the LA presser. Rios at first barked out hell no, but was convinced by DuBoef, who reminded him that a photo helps promote the tussle.
It went well, to a point, as they started at each other for a spell...but then Rios shoved off Abril, and cooler heads hopped in between the boxers, to prevent them from giving the milk away for free.
Rios during his time at the mike, before the shove climax,admitted he was happy with how his life has been going, and said he was proud of the three guys he took off the streets, who he called drug addicts, and he pointed to the unnamed men in the front row.
Rios (29-0-1 with 22 KOs; age 25; lives in CA), who won the WBA lightweight belt in Feb. 2011 from Miguel Acosta, defended it against Urbano Antillon that July, before dropping it because he didn't make weight for the Dec. 3, 2011 John Murray fight, said he wants that crown back. No one thought he'd be at 135 when he looked cadaverous for the Murray fight in NY, but he is still at 135, and maintains he is on track to make weight for April 14.
"I am going to gain my title back," he said. "Abril, nobody is still going to know who he is," after he loses to Rios, the Texas-born hitter said. He called Abril an "unknown guy," and said he is "going to let this fool know who Bam Bam is...I'm going to knock his ass out, and will show the world why he's a shadow, I'm a star."
Trainer Robert Garcia said Rios is in great shape and promised a great fight against Abril.
Abril during his time at the mike said in Spanish that he was grateful for the opportunity to fight Rios. The 17-2 Cuban, a free swinging sort,said that the beef he and Rios had in Miami a few weeks ago came about because he heard Rios using the eff word on him. He said he doesn't really have anything against Rios, per se, and promised a "great fight" on April 14. The 29 year-old picked up the interim WBA belt when he downed Miguel Acosta in October, via UD12.
Tix, DuBoef said, are still available for the Mandalay Bay card, scaled from $250 down to $25. The card, paired with Juan Manuel Marquez' scrap versus Sergey Fedchenko for a 140 pound belt, will air on PPV, as well, for $44.
Brandon Rios = must see tv...I'll be one excited fight fan if Marquez vs Rios becomes official.
looking forward to this one
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Rising Star: SMU Guard Nic MooreMoore, a 5'9" point guard from Winona Lake, Ind., is playing as well as anyone in the American Athletic Conference right now. He leads his team with 14.1 points and 4.7 assists per game.
SMU Hires Jankovich As Hoops Coach-In-WaitingIllinois State's Tim Jankovich has been hired as the presumed head coach-in-waiting under new SMU coach Larry Brown.
Report Says Brown Hired As SMU Hoops CoachLarry Brown is reportedly getting another job, this time with SMU. News broke that the 71-year-old has accepted a job with the Mustangs.


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Another search engine app?
Yep, but this one has some merit.
It's an iOS app called Weotta and the best way the developers describe the app is a "search engine for stuff to do." If it works, this app could be a time saver, a money saver and possibly, a relationship saver.
Weotta is live in over 370 cities, so you can get an answer to your question, no matter where you are.
With Weotta, you can find out what is going on this weekend, or maybe you are heading to the Gulf of Mexico for a vacation and need to know what to do. Weotta can help you plan your trip and it makes it easy to make the most of your time.
For Atlantans, Weotta could help answer these questions:
"Where are the best Golf courses in Atlanta?" (East Lake Golf Club and Druid Hills Golf Club came back with high ratings) to "Friendliest Dog Parks in Atlanta?" (Park Grounds and Piedmont Dog Park were at the top) Weotta give relevant and timely answers to even the most specific questions making it a big step forward for local search in general.
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Essential app for people who don't like to plan (and those who do)
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This app is perfect for nights out when no one feels like planning ahead. I also love that you can search by specific entrees at restaurants! I always feel like a hero when I find the one restaurant that serves yellow curry that's still open at 1 am
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By using the new version, discovering new places to go has never been easier. It doesn't matter if you are a planner, or if you like to be spontaneous, Weotta can help.
Weotta is also a great app to use when you are visiting another city or state. Weotta as a travel companion is a no-brainer. It's easy to use, the search results are useful and it really cuts to chase.
Weotta should be your "go to app" when you are having a hard time making a decision.
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The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) has promoted the integrated agriculture research for development (IAR4D) approach based on an innovation systems framework.
paper by Richard Munang and Johnson N. Nkem
Paul Kruger, a tralac Researcher, discusses Special Economic Zones for South Africa.
Paul Collier: Europe's current troubles with the Euro should not detract from its success in liberating intra-regional trade: this is a model worth Africa emulating.
11th January, Nairobi — An increasing number of African countries are beginning to step away from aid dependency, as the domestic private sector becomes the engine of growth across much of Africa.
On a geographical basis, the European Community (EC) is programming its aid to Africa, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP) countries for the period 2008-2013 under the European Development Fund (EDF). It will set out the main priorities for funding towards these countries and regions with a budget of 22.8 billion Euros for the 5 year period. The overview of this budget describes the allocation by country and focal sector. The programming process will lead to the adoption of a new generation of Country and Region Strategy Papers (CSP/RSPs) for ACP countries. CSPs serve as the bases for development cooperation that spells out the rationale and main areas of intervention. As of January 2008, 43 out of the 77 countries have been signed.
The European Commission has also allocated another budget line through the Investing in People (IIP) which comes from the Development Cooperation Instrument. The IIP aims to support various areas on human development including health, gender equality, education and employment.
The EC has also prepared Governance Profiles for each ACP country as a programming tool and basis for the governance incentive tranche which could increase a country´s allocation by 35%.
It is therefore important for civil society actors to engage with the programming process as the resulting Strategy Papers will guide EC development policy towards the countries and regions concerned for the entire period. The programming process might also set the basis for joint programming by EU Member States.
A process called the Mid-term Review will also be undertaken by 2010 which evaluates the relevance and performance of the development cooperation and whereby civil society´s engagement continues to be significant.The Cotonou Agreement (signed in 2000 between the European Union and 78 ACP countries) stipulates that civil society organisations are consulted in the programming process and that 15% of all funding in ACP countries is allocated to civil society organisations.Therefore it is crucial that concerns of civil society organisations based in the country/region are considered in this process, and this process is crucial to see concerns reflected in the EC's aid. This engagement will open greater possibilities that funds are allocated to priorities raised by them.


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I find it interesting that ever since I graduated from high school, no one has asked me to give a farewell or a commencement address to any senior class anywhere at any time. Maybe it's because I'm not rich, famous, successful, or good-looking. But why should I let that stop me? I write for examiner.com, for Fort Worth TX and the surrounding English-speaking world. So enjoy! Congratulations! and Be blessed!
To The Class of 2012
Once upon a time I too was a senior like you
I was smart
Kind of shy
I had a few good friends
I listened to the radio but preferred my own music
And I may have watched too much TV
Fortunately I had twelve years of schooling under my belt
And knew quite a bit about a great many things:
American History
Both English and Spanish
I even learned to type without looking at the keys
But what I really wondered about was the future.
I had some ideas on what I could become
What path might take me there
How likely or unlikely it might be for me to succeed
I had no idea what was really going to happen to me
I had no idea how different college was going to be
I had no idea how relationships would affect my sanity
I had no idea how weak and ignorant I really was
When I had been so smart and strong
As a senior about to enter the larger world
Beyond those oh so familiar corridors
I would like to warn you
I would like to prepare you
I would like to save you from the future
That you will always look back upon
With fondness and regret
But that could do you a great disservice.
As a Christian, whether you are Christian or not,
I would be remiss to not tell you that not only will you
shame and embarrass yourself, and possibly your family,
Unless they have low expectations for you,
You will shame and embarrass a Holy God
who is watching everything.
Just try to keep that in mind.
He has watched you love Him
Doubt Him
Disbelieve Him
Curse Him
Reject Him
Deny Him
And yet He is still there for you
Now when it is most important
For your future and your soul
You don't have to turn back to God
You don't have to accept or believe Him
You can hate the sinners and the hypocrites
But don't ever think that God is like them
He is not.
God is love
And He still loves you
And wants what is best for you
Which is even better than what you want for yourself
Which is temporary
And worldly
And won't satisfy you as long as you think it will
Because time will go by
And soon your youth will vanish
Preconceived notions will be displaced
Honesty deeply hidden will be revealed
Much to your chagrin
Unless …
My best to you Class of 2-0-1-2.


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The Colorado State Patrol responded to a report of a fatal injury crash this morning (May 9) that was believed to have occurred the night before. Shortly before 8 this morning, the Colorado State Patrol received a report that a vehicle had been located on its roof, down an embankment in Bent County. The crash occurred on U.S. Highway 50, milepost 400, at the off ramp with Colorado 194, or just east of the town of Las Animas.
A black 2002 Chevrolet Trail Blazer traveled off the right side of the roadway, across the off ramp for Colorado 194 and collided with three trees, causing it to rotate 1/2 time and roll 1/2 time. The vehicle landed approximately 50 feet down an embankment on its roof.
The driver, Roger Hazen (age 59, of Aurora, Colo.) was pronounced deceased at the scene of the crash by the Bent County Coroner. He was not wearing his seat belt. Hazen is believed to have been traveling near 70 miles per hour in a stepped-down speed limit of 45 miles per hour. Unfamiliarity with location is considered a contributing factor in the crash. Drugs are not suspected to be involved in the crash. It is unknown at this time as to whether alcohol played a factor in the crash. At this time, the State Patrol believes the crash occurred around 10 the night before (May 8).
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The gentleman years...this precious time when the wild craziness of youth has finally calmed down and turned into a still active and funny but dignified way of being.
It's the most amazing time to spend with your dog and this book tries to capture these precious moments and memories.
It's a tribute to an absolute wonderful dog.
Cisco, the Golden Retriever.
Comment posted.
kevinetemi says beautiful book .. dog, and pictures !
posted at 06:35AM Dec 27 PST
ForthlinRoad says Bravo!! - a beautifully designed book complemented with gorgeous photography that will warm the hearts of all those who cherish their four-legged friends.
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ciscolo says
hi Chris, that sounds pretty interesting.
If you like to send me some samples I'll sure give them a try and spread the word as I think your products might interest a bunch of fellow dog owners now that the days become darker.
Just let me know how we can get in contact.
Jutta (& Cisco Sugarbear)
posted at 01:08AM Oct 10 PST
saritasmiles says
Hi, My name is Chris Bal and I work for Dog-E-Glow, LED dog collars and leashes. We make fashionable 'light up' dog products that allow dogs and their owners to be more visible at night. I wanted to get in touch to see if you were open to us sending you some free product to test out. In exchange for that, if you like the product, it would be great to get some pictures up on social media with our page tagged.
Currently we are doing everything we can to get some exposure, so please let me know if this is something that you would be interested in, or if you have any other ways we can work together. I look forward to hearing from you.
Chris Bal
posted at 11:06AM Oct 08 PST
libbyw says
Bought this book and LOVE it. I'm going to give it my Mum for Mothers Day and order another copy for me.
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gidgette says
We just ordered your Cisco book... can't wait!!
Sara, Pika and Maya xo
posted at 12:50PM Mar 29 PST
cglovesdogs says Hi Jutta! I just ordered your beautiful book. I can't wait to get it....I have so loved all your beautiful photos on Flickr. We share a common love...our dog. Love Connie and Kila
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text: The athletic department at Toccoa Falls College wishes to reconnect with all alumni who devoted their time and energy into intercollegiate athletics while a student at TFC. Linked below is an easy registration that will require only a few minutes of your time. In doing so, you will be able to receive future communications and updates directly from TFC Athletics. Thank you for playing sports at TFC and for completing the registration.


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A Visual Comparison Of Cartoon X-Men Versus Their Live-Action Equivalents
This is a visual comparison of a ton of cartoon X-Men characters and their live-action equivalents. I learned a lot. Mostly about how the live-action ones look way more like real people than the cartoon ones. The cartoon ones look like they were drawn. "You really are a f***ing idiot, you know that?" Better than anyone except my parents.
Keep going for a bunch more.
Thanks to carey, who has never called me out in the comments for forgetting to finish a shoutout. UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE.


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Banner Thunderbird Medical Center in Glendale is committed to providing compassionate, innovative cancer care services to meet our patient's individual needs.
We offer experienced physicians and staff, technologically advanced detection and treatment tools, and an array of support services to make sure our patients receive excellent care during all phases of their cancer care.
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What caused a killer whale named Tilikum, who had been entertaining crowds for two decades, to suddenly and brutally murder longtime SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010? Many theories have been put forth since the case made national headlines, and now the new documentary Blackfish, opening in Atlanta Aug. 2, dives into the murky waters in search of some clarity.
In her quest to get answers, writer/director Gabriela Cowperthwaite turns the clock back 40 years, as hunters off the coast of Washington rip young killer whales from the water, separating them from their families. The story of the pursuit and the eyewitness account of the orcas' mourned cries establish these creatures' intelligence and deep familial bonds.
From that starting point, Cowperthwaite's fascinating doc leaps across time and continents, charting the history of killer whales in captivity from the Sealand Aquarium in Canada to the Loro Parque Zoo in Spain. At the center of it all, of course, is SeaWorld, the legendary theme park and home to Tilikum since the early 1990s – when he was purchased from Sealand following his involvement in a tragedy there.
To help tell the story, Cowperthwaite interviews an impressive range of former SeaWorld trainers, several who worked at the park in the '90s and others who just finished up their tour within the last few years. They provide a valuable look at the bond formed between orca and trainer.
In many cases, they also convey a growing sense of discomfort with the killer whales' living conditions and an unease regarding the gap between what the public sees and what happens behind closed doors. Cowperthwaite is merciless in showing archival footage of these trainers spouting out SeaWorld scripted lines, and their shame at their previous actions gives Blackfish added credibility.
In addition to interviews with trainers and scientists, Blackfish features an array of archival footage. Some of the video, such as underwater images of the killer whales and their trainers, is breathtaking. Others, like the 1999 footage of a SeaWorld diver repeatedly dragged to the bottom of the pool before narrowly escaping, is harrowing.
Cowperthwaite's documentary raises thorny questions about the moral implications of keeping killer whales in captivity under the types of conditions prevalent at SeaWorld – not to mention lower-budget theme parks where living quarters are more cramped and employees less well trained. And for the most part, Blackfish makes its points in clinical, persuasive fashion.
There are a few heavy-handed missteps, such as a misguided coda that doesn't trust viewers to reach their own conclusions. But elsewhere, Blackfish scores points for making an effort to show differing points of view. Though SeaWorld declined to comment – at least until the film was released – former SeaWorld trainer Mark Simmons provides a welcome counterpoint to the rest of the interview subjects.
Through it all, Brancheau's presence looms over the film, and by the time Blackfish reaches its conclusion, the official corporate party line concerning her death rings false, regardless of whether you see eye to eye with Cowperthwaite. Though not constructed as a thriller like the dolphin-focused, Oscar-winning doc The Cove, Blackfish nonetheless unspools with an urgency that demands your attention.
Grade: B+
"Blackfish" opens in Atlanta on August 2 at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema.
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Texas divorce lawyers, naturally, are opposed to the plan.
The WSJ's Nathan Koppel reports that the fight is part of a larger trend around the country of people trying to represent themselves when they go to court to dissolve their marriages. While no comprehensive figures exist, surveys in some states and Texas counties indicate that a majority of parties in divorce cases do so, which can cause problems for the couples as well as the courts.
Thirty-six states already offer self-help forms for divorce filings, according to Koppel. The Texas Supreme Court last month finished drafts of its versions.
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Judge Judy Parker of Lubbock County told Koppel that self-represented couples need good fill-in-the-blank forms. Otherwise, she said, they can contribute to case backlogs since they tend to need much hand-holding.
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Thomas Ausley, chairman of State Bar of Texas family-law section, pointed out that one of the proposed Texas forms asks people whether they want to waive legal rights without adequately informing them what such a waiver might entail. "People need legal advice," he said.
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New "Sex and the City" to Star Blake Lively, Selena Gomez, Emma Roberts and Elizabeth Olsen?
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In case you were wondering, Miley Cyrus is not calling off her marriage to Liam Hemsworth. Apparently this was a thing that was being reported yesterday (damn you, January Jones!), but Miley seems to think it's not true, and she's probably know, so we tend to believe her. She tweeted the following yesterday in response to the rumors:
I am so sick of La. And sick of the lies that come with it. I didn't call off my wedding. Taking a break from social media. #draining
— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) March 6, 2013
Ah yes, the Twitter hiatus. Often a good idea for celebrities, but for better or worse, it never seems to last all that long. In Miley's case, it lasted for less than a full afternoon, as eventually, Miley realized she didn't have to get people to stop talking about her by avoiding social media—she could just let her music do the work for her:
my new music is gonna shut everyone up.
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not discussing anything but my music from now on.
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Sounds good to us. But uh, speaking of…are we gonna get that new music anytime soon? We haven't gotten anything new from Miley since 2010, and though we've heard a lot about this upcoming album's collaborators and what it's supposed to sound like and whatnot, we still haven't actually heard anything from it yet. C'mon, Miley. Give us something to shut us up already.


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Why Your Idea And Execution Aren't As Important As You – with Tomer Yogev
by Tim Jahn on February 25, 2011
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Over the past 10 years, Tomer Yogev has worked with several startups, owned his own small business consultancy, and spent time in venture capital. Recently, he launched TandemSpring, another small business consultancy.
In this interview, Tomer explains how the individual can be more important than their idea or execution, and techniques for moving past the ideation phase.
Tim Jahn: What's TandemSpring?
Tomer Yogev: So TandemSpring is a consulting company that — both my partner and I, what we realized is small organizations, be it a start up, a small business, non-profit organization really all suffer from the same thing which is they probably got started with a guy or a group of people, maybe a little bit of money, maybe a really good idea.
Hopefully some domain knowledge and that's really about it. There's merely always these rather large gaps in their knowledge, maybe they've never done marketing before, maybe they've never done finance before, maybe they've never done fundraising before.
All these kinds of things and there's these things that are really essential to getting their organization to be successful. But they're probably not in the position to hire on a CMO, a CFO, those types of roles. So what we look to do is kind of come on, partner with the companies, sort of act as, more as part or short term labor rather than as consultants in sort of the typical sense.
Our pricing and our modeling of how we interact with our clients and based off of that, we don't generally go off of hourly fees and project basis and things like that. We're really looking much more to kind of come on for a certain period of time, to you to a point where you can then hopefully take it from there or maybe bring someone else on full time if it requires, those kinds of things. So it's really about filling the gaps for smaller organizations.
Tim Jahn: Okay, that makes sense. And I imagine that's a big need to fill. I mean there's you know hundreds of thousands of small businesses and start ups being created all the time that, like you said they don't necessarily — it's hard to know everything that you need to know.
Tomer Yogev: Right, exactly. And we don't position ourselves as people who know everything ourselves. You know we know what we know. And we know other people who know things we don't know, so we're work —
Tim Jahn: That's a great way of putting it.
Tomer Yogev: Yeah, so we're more than happy to, you know refer out and those sorts of things, but we really like to position ourselves as the first place to come to. You know you need help finance, come to us. If we can help you with that kind of finance we will, if we can't, we'll get you someone who can help you.
It's again really about trying to help these start ups and small organizations to fill these generally glaring business gaps that in most cases they just don't where else to go. I mean I'm sure we all know start ups who have spent a great deal of time getting financial advise from the guy who does their taxes. Which maybe that's passable, maybe it's not. You know tax guys are tax guys.
They're not necessarily finance guys and so on and so forth. So, as entrepreneurs you're usually left to kind of take whatever you can find and we hope to try and take that upper level so you're actually talking to an expert in the problem you're trying to solve.
Tim Jahn: What did you do before TademSpring?
Tomer Yogev: So I did a couple of things. I've been with a handful of start ups, most recently with a software startup that go acquired back in '09. After that I spent some time in Venture Capital. So I — and I also had a consulting business prior to this. So, also focused on smaller business and helping them out.
So, my background essentially is I'm an entrepreneur myself so I definitely know the struggles of being the one person company or the two person. I've been with small organizations, being as early as early as the fourth as late as like the thirty-something. I've seen those organizations grow to as many as 300 people and you know tens of millions of dollars of revenue a year. So I've definitely kind of seen all the different stages of small businesses. And then I've also had some exposure on kind of the investor's side as well so I feel like I bring a lot of different perspectives to try and address the issues of small business.
Tim Jahn: Yeah definitely. You kind of have all of the perspectives covered there. You mentioned in your pre-interview notes that while you were working at Venture Capital you say a lot of firms and a lot of people with amazing ideas, but lousy execution. Can you give an example of something you've seen along those lines?
Tomer Yogev: Yeah, I mean there's two that really come to mind and the reason that I really love these two is because the idea behind them is so much the same. One of the things I really was targeted on when I was working at Venture Capital was exploring the inner section between health and wellness and mobile internet, kind of new technology type stuff.
And I came across, we'll start with this first one which was a company that was going to send you messaging, specifically on your mobile phone to try and help you get through your addiction. So the guy who started this is a PhD psychologist specifically oriented around addictions, you know wrote papers and is well known in that space. And he has a methodology that specifically has been proven and so on and so forth that if you receive constant reminders about your goal that say to break your addiction to the cigarettes or drugs or alcohol or what have you, that there's clinical proof that his methodology works.
So here's this really wonderful idea as far as obviously helping the world. But then he also had some nice ideas as how he was going to make some money. He could get grant money, he could put some things on top of to kind of orient it specifically to you as a thirty-something, white, male who's trying to quite smoking. Maybe that messaging would be a little different than someone else. So he had all these really nice business idea.
And what we took a look at is, okay that the business idea checks out and the main thing we kind of look at in business ideas is this you know just kind of a logic there? You look at some of the really big successes of the last few years on a Groupon, Facebook, Google even. The fundamental idea is not particularly astounding. You know, we're going to give people coupons. But like that's been done you know and — you know we'll have people find out about each other, like a directory.
You know that's been done. Those are really these monumental ideas, but obviously they turn into these whopping successes. So we focus idea was, at least as good as giving people coupons. So we liked that.
And then we look at two other things. Kind of what's the plan here? And then are you the person to do it? So this guy, like I said PhD psychologist, definitely has the psychological chops here. Hadn't started a business before, but you know everybody needs to start somewhere. Everyone has their first, so maybe he's not ideal, ideal candidate, but definitely looked pretty strong in that regard. Then we started looking at his execution.
Okay, you know, how are you going to really get this out there? And you know I always feel bad when I tell this story because it feels like I'm belittling him so much, but his business plan essentially was I'll pay a developer to build an iPhone app and I'll put it on the iStore and we'll see where it goes. And that's not a business plan. You know it — you know there's no market acquisition. There's no pricing strategy. There's no —
Tim Jahn: I could see that being a common business plan though, for that type of thing, I could see a first time entrepreneur saying I'll just build it, put it on the store and wait.
Tomer Yogev: Absolutely, I mean the only thing — and there will come a strategy. I'm not going to say it's a good strategy.
Tomer Yogev: But it certainly is a way to go and look, I mean you look at Angry Birds. You know I'm not exactly sure what their business strategy was beyond that and they're going to get a TV show now I hear. So, you know it's not to say it can't possibly ever work. It's just not a particularly strong strategy, especially in something like this where even if you were successful, what's really to stop a better known psychologist from spending a few thousand dollars to have his iPhone app and now and Android app as well put out there and you're toast.
You know you really don't have any kind of barriers. You really don't have any real strategy. And I think that goes to the fact that again, this guys, he's a psychologist. He's not going to be a business man by trade. This was kind of his first foray.
So like I say, that's not necessarily a guarantee failure, that you've never started a business, so you can't start a business. Clearly there's more than enough examples to demonstrate first time business people can be very successful. But sometimes there's a reason why you haven't started a business and you don't have the business chops which in this case was kind of true. And it really became apparent in the strategy, so I mean we were going to give him the benefit of the doubt but then when we really started looking at his execution strategy, it became very clear. So I know this happens every day of the week.
People are sitting on their couch watching TV or in the shower or wherever they have that light bulb moment and they come up with this awesome business idea. Usually people get stuck there. Is this idea good enough, you know can I really make money at it, blah, blah, blah. And they really get stuck there and don't even really get into the execution.
I — to give this guy the benefit of the doubt, I wouldn't be surprised if we had caught up with him not long after he finally decided to get up off the couch. So here's this idea, he finally go the motivation to go do it, hadn't really gotten to the business planning stage yet, hopefully. But I can tell you this was over a year ago and there's really no notable progress from that day to this.
Tim Jahn: What — you mentioned that a lot of people are going to sit on the couch, have the idea and then say okay is this a good idea? Am I going to make money off this idea? Can this idea work? Sho — and I under that execution is, most of the time just so much more important than simply having the idea, but isn't there a certain amount of vetting that you should do with your idea before executing by — before — I mean to actually make sure it is a good idea or is it just more import to hit the ground running and that's kind of the vetting processes?
Tomer Yogev: I think, I think you're right. I think there is some degree of vetting that needs to happen. I don't think you just have your light bulb moment and go. But where I really feel the vetting needs to happen is on the execution side less the idea. You know the example I like using all the time is the pet rock. If someone really sat down and tried to vet the idea of taking rocks and selling them for a lot of money, probably wouldn't have got real far.
But the execution of it was fantastic. It was witty, it was fun. The guy who did it was a good person to do it. He had good contacts that was toys and knew that type of space. So, the execution and the person were really well made for that.
The ideas, probably one of the worst ideas in the history of business. So you know it's, and — yet he's walking around with a lot more money than you and I have probably ever made in our lives. So it's, the idea-ry does involve some vetting. One of the other things I hear about that is, if I vet the idea don't I risk it getting stolen? You do, that's true, but what I would contend is if we look at this other aspect of who you are, that should alleviate that concern.
If your idea is a good one, but you don't bring any unique skills to making that — such — you're going to have a hard time making that idea successful anyways. So if someone steals it, in many cases they're probably better situated to make it successful than you are. Up, I think I lost all you on you.
Tim Jahn: I'm sorry. It cut out just before that, your last part, if you could just repeat that.
Tomer Yogev: Ah, the part about it getting stolen?
Tim Jahn: Yeah. It cut out a little bit. I missed the key part.
Tomer Yogev: Yeah, so essentially what I'm saying is people do get concerned about having their ideas stolen during the vetting stage. But what I tell those people is that if their not bringing any unique value in of themselves, if they don't have skills that are going to help make that idea successful, such that when they pull a vetted, anybody who hears this idea can just go and do it too, or do it even better than they could, then they're probably barking up a bad tree to beginning with.
You really want to make sure that your idea not only holds water in of itself and that your execution plan holds water in of itself, but that you somehow match up to this idea in someway that you're bringing the value. Because if you're not, there's going to be someone else out there who does bring value whose probably going to beat you to the finish line.
Tim Jahn: So, I mean, and I think this is the part that most people don't look at it as, there's really three elements. There's the idea, the execution, and then you.
Tomer Yogev: Yep.
Tim Jahn: So I mean you know you look at a company like Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, you know I hear this all the time, you know I think it's just the, I'm sure we both do, I think entrepreneurs always here this, you know you hear your mom and dad "oh why didn't you invent Facebook? Or why didn't you invent Groupon?"
And you know you think about Facebook is successful because, not necessarily the idea, not necessarily the execution, but the — Mark is a large part of that. I mean I hear all these stories, whether they're true or not, you know there's movies made about whether they're true or not, but who this, you know who this guy is. So what you're saying is, you know the success of Facebook is just as much idea and execution as it is the fact that Mark Zuckerberg is the one that implemented it rather than you or I?
Tomer Yogev: Absolutely. I mean, specifically Facebook I think is such a wonderful example because there are these monster corporations out there like SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle that essentially build the same underlining framework as what Facebook is, right? Like let's take a lot of data, put it in containers and have it all relate to each other in a way that people can search and find it easily.
And what they do for Fortune 500 companies is really not too different from what Facebook is doing for 13 year olds all over the world. So why didn't, I mean Facebook is worth like more than most of those companies now. Why didn't they do it? The answer is they kind of already were doing it, they just didn't have the execution, they didn't have the right person, they didn't have the cache of starting it at Harvard and then rolling it out to other universities and all the network effects that you have there and so on and so forth.
There just wasn't a lot of other things that aligned. But here are these massive corporations and the technology space that were doing the same fundamental, underlying technology and even they were doing it, let alone you or I, you know sitting in our dorm rooms or whatever at the time.
So it's — you're absolutely right. I mean there's those three components. There's a lot of other components. And I think Facebook really helps aluminate it, Groupon's another good example. I mean their — you know how many coupon website's there are, but they had so many other things line up. They — you know and of course they were at a point before that and so on and so forth.
But you know there's more to it than just the idea and when you talk to the average person who has that light bulb moment, they go "I want to start a business that does X. Is that a good idea?" And it's, you know what? It's good enough. Does it make sense? Does it have some sort of underlying logic to it? If it does, give it the check mark and let's move on. Now let's look at you, let's look at your execution plan and then beyond that let's look at, you know the economic environment, where you're going to start this business?
Do you know people with the appropriate talents? All the other things that kind of go with starting a business. But so many people, and we've all been there where you're watching a commercial with your buddy and commercial pops up and they go "I thought of that idea three years, you know dang, I should have done it."
Tim Jahn: There's one guy in every room that says that every time.
Tomer Yogev: Can't make it through a football game without hearing something along those lines. And you know it's, look what separates you from the entrepreneur behind that commercial? And the answer usually is not a whole heck of a lot.
Maybe some effort, maybe a little bit of domain know how, but you know the primary difference is that person had the same idea as you, got up off the couch, came up with an execution plan, looked at themselves, figured out their own unique talents and value they're bringing to this business, and he moved on it. And that's really the only difference.
Tim Jahn: That's a great point. Actually that leaves me my last question in which is for those people sitting on the couch that have that light bulb moment or they thing they have that light bulb moment, what is your one simple, single piece of advice for them on that next step towards successfully executing, or at least on the path to successful execution?
Tomer Yogev: Show up. I mean that's really the name of the game. Every entrepreneur I've ever spoken to at the really early stages of their business when they've launched and they're, you know maybe pre-revenue, and so on and so forth, they all tell the same story which is will this business successful? You know we'll see. I'm doing what I can. I've done you know what I think are smart moves.
And either it will swim or it will not and I have some sort of back up plan if the answer is it does not, but I'm certainly hoping for it does. And it's — that ability to accept risk that I think separates the people who actually get off the couch and those who don't. But those who really are stuck there and I know countless people who have had a business idea just percolating in the back of their mind for weeks, months, years.
It's just about showing up. Get yourself in a position, whatever that may mean, be it financially or whatever to just really give it a shot. And once you get to that point, you will figure out the strategy, you will figure out your own unique talents that stuff will come. You really have to get past this ideation phase where it just sounds like a cool idea that you could maybe do one day.
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