Lists Bob and Frankie as the inventors. So some of the ownership has been transferred from Frankie to Bob.
We also have Bob's employment history:
March 2011 to September 5th 2012 Bob was President of DigitalOptics Corp.
I wonder if Frankie was helping his brother by giving a share of the Batteriser Patent?
Make that a $940K termination payment from DigitalOptics:
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1261694/000092189513000895/dfan14a06297103_04302013.pdf
Maybe they should win the inaugural EEVblog Shonky Product Of The Year Award?
So assuming that Bob has no other debts (ideally he shouldn't as a long standing highly paid executive), and more than million in the bank, and he truly believed in Batteriser, and he really is the serial entrepreneur he claims to be, why would he take the VC money?
Why not fund it himself, change the world with his revolutionary product, and keep every last cent and total control?
Oh well, if worse comes to worst then surely we as a community could perhaps all chip in a few cents each (<5) and buy them out lock, stock and bunnies
Lock, stock and monkeys...
Maybe they should win the inaugural EEVblog Shonky Product Of The Year Award?
Maybe they should win the inaugural EEVblog Shonky Product Of The Year Award?
Why not? Choice.com.au have their Shonky Awards http://classic.choice.com.au/shonkyaward.aspx
'The Best Practices Awards are presented each year to companies that are predicted to encourage significant growth in their industries, have identified emerging trends before they became the standard in the marketplace, and have created advanced technologies that will catalyze and transform industries in the near future.'
Somebody at Frost Sullivan has been drinking the Batteroo Kool-Aid!
That "award" company is a PR firm, or "Growth Consulting", as they call it. They are in the marketing business. That's like believing an ad copy when it tells you the product it is selling is the best.
There are many reviews of F&S out there. Apparently it costs about $20k-30k to be given an award. That must be why they can't afford a camera.
Sounds like an opportunity for a bunch of executives (read: rich old men) to get together and knead each others' egos, pat each other on the back for how much money they made (read: scammed/cheated/weazled) last financial year, and rub scented oils into each other in the spa while drinking lemon tea. Sounds like it would be right up Bob's alley, so to speak...
Oh well, if worse comes to worst then surely we as a community could perhaps all chip in a few cents each (<5) and buy them out lock, stock and bunnies
Lock, stock and monkeys...
Bunnies…. what the hell was I thinking of, perhaps the entire saga reminds me of a disgusting flea ridden rodent that helps itself to other peoples commodities and then scurries back down a dark hole in a cowardly fashion, waits for the dust to settle before they are back out and at it again in a nearby field.
Anyway hopefully they have been ferreted out once and for all, they certainly came-a-cropper in this instance.
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I dunno about that, sometimes you have to watch out for those rabbits
Lock, stock and monkeys...
Or, to be closer to the original figures of speech:
Lock, stock and barrel of monkeys
For the people who contributed to Batteriser, I encourage you all to do the same. Be polite, be factual. Hopefully, this will cause Indiegogo to put _some_ kind of pressure on Batteriser to communicate better with their supporters.