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>> I mean, focus is getting more funding.

>> I mean, color was an app that was

>> started with $41 million in funding, and that failed.

>> And I think there’s a clear lesson here.

>> You need a lot more than $41 million to build a successful app.

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>> There’s an old saying in the investing world.

>> You know, if you’re looking for money, you’ll get advice.

>> If you’re looking for advice, you’ll get money.

>> So let’s just say that here at

>> Vooza, we’re really looking for advice, you know?

>> If you have advice in the bank, so we wanna talk.

>> There’s something about being constrained early

>> on, that it forces you to focus.

>> And we’re not comfortable with that.

>> When you focus you lose sight of the bigger picture.

>> I never focus.

>> Once you build a product you start limiting yourself.

>> And we want the possibilities to be

>> endless, we want our ideas to roam free.

>> Now we want cage free ideas.

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>> Money is only the second best thing an investor can bring to the table.

>> First thing they have to bring is the name of a contact in at TechCrunch.

>> When TechCrunch announces that Vooza is getting

>> funding, that’s how we’ll know we’ve made it.

>> I mean look at the companies that

>> get featured, what, what’s their success rate?

>> It’s a group of winners.

>> Well, you’ll hear a lot of companies talk about try to be Ramen profitable.

>> Uh, I mean, I didn’t get an MPA from

>> an Ivy league college, so I could eat Ramen.

>> We know what investors are looking for.

>> Passion, skill, maturity, vision.

>> Yeah, we have so much vision here.

>> Vooza.

>> We have a lot of vision.

>> Here we’ve met with all the big VC firms, you know.

>> Red Point.

>> Blue Run.

>> Green Fin.

>> Yellow Fever.

>> Union Square Ventures.

>> Google Ventures.

>> Walk Don’t Run By The Ventures.

>> Klein and Perkins, Hold, and Koffield.

>> Diamond, Yauck, and Harvis.

>> Belbiv and Devoe.

>> Benchmark Capital.

>> First Run Capital.

>> State Capital.

>> Uh Lower Case Capital.

>> The Washington Capital.

>> Uh Capital Capital.

>> Uh, Capitol One the credit card.

>> Also the Washington Redskins.