whipped this up when researching last night

Mark, the best way to convey METANOTES is to get you started creating notes. I want to walk you through that if you don’t mind!

METANOTES is optimal for collections of third-party widgets.

Here’s Emery’s tribute page to George Carlin

MetaNotes Branding:

• The Best Platform For Notetaking
• Intelligence
• Everywhere!
• Fun!

...here’s notes on Kotler On Marketing by Philip Kotler

i took some notes!

(open as a new tab to keep this space up as well)

we will side with publishers and use DMCA safe harbor provisions.

we see content licensing rights as a potential revenue stream both for us and publishers.

mostly, we just serve text – all images are grabbed from elsewhere on the web.

there are neat elements that I’d like to show you:

• the PANELS on the top right of the interface
• the TIME LOG panel (a private twitter)
  • this will become a bookmarklet
  • this ALREADY works on every smartphone we’ve tested
• the CONTEXTUAL MENUS off each note

here’s manditron’s profile

• left Geni for METANOTES in 2007
• ex-coder at Shopzilla

The perfect collaboration notes system represents a multi-billion dollar business.

This system does not exist yet

• no matter how much marketing is spent in trumpeting these products.

Our team intends to build the perfect collaboration system.

As an inventor, I want every enterprise in the world to collaborate using METANOTES.

As a CEO it is my responsibility to bring together the following resources:

• A fully-developed METANOTES beta
• A team of dedicated marketers
• Partnerships
• Fanatic users
• New revenue models
• Outside financing
• Operations know-how
• Long-term product strategy

I will do this by first focusing on STUDENTS.

• brass-knuckles marketing during Back To School
• hire student interns as evangelists
• create fantastic group functionality in the product

It would be great to work with you on this, Mark – you and GRP would be a great resource here!

METANOTES is a new kind of wiki, a far more interactive way of creating a knowledge repository than exists elsewhere, a dynamic new way to conduct virtual teams. It leaves other “online whiteboards” in the dust, as far as we have seen, and generates a different type of social network aligned around information objects as well as the people that posted them.

METANOTES resembles at first glance the famous “IDEO wall of post-it notes” brainstorming process, but held online and with notes that can contain images, video, widgets, or API-linked data. It represents a dramatic new way to share and create information. This section of our business plan discusses the possibilities for developing METANOTES into a multi-billion dollar enterprise collaboration service.

METANOTES has been developed as an “operating system for web 2.0”; a portal that begins with your own notes from your last session rather than simply a search prompt or some random news. Since many concepts can be arranged and re-arranged on a single page by multiple users, we believe that teams making use of METANOTES will accept no substitutes once they learn the system.

Here’s a sample space that we’re using to develop our back-to-school marketing plan: http://www.metanotes.com/emery/Marketing+Plan

Our users are also having a lot of fun creating spaces to express their identities and interests: http://www.metanotes.com/manditron/I+Am+Mochi

If you’ll notice on the top right hand corner of the interface, METANOTES integrates several leading Web 2.0 iphone applications (Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Photobucket, 30Boxes) which could be customized depending on the enterprise deployment requirements (e.g. Salesforce or internal email). We have also devised a quick-entry tool, “The Time Log”, which acts as a Twitter-like private journal that remains persistent no matter where the user may be in the system. The Time Log is already compatible with every smartphone we’ve tested, in effect extending METANOTES into the pocket.

Our product roadmap includes adding privacy, email integration, notifications, a “presentation view” to let visitors examine spaces as if they were Powerpoint decks, Google Gears to boost performance, a published API so as to leverage the developer community as well as existing wikis/databases and applications like MS Office and Salesforce, smoother integration with Scribd in order to easily share Office documents, and a custom audio-capture flash widget developed internally which lets users speak directly into METANOTES from their onboard microphone. Naturally, we plan to build administrative and customization tools to sell into academia and the enterprise, while simultaneously improving the end-user experience to trigger obsessive usage of the platform. We are using METANOTES to manage the METANOTES development process and sub-projects, and see our raw prototype as already superior to anything else on the Web today.

The enterprise collaboration market in 2009 will be massive, and we believe that our success with students this back to school year will catapult us into consideration by those who will drive the purchase of these systems. We have built a business plan that specifies where and how we would work with outside financing to achieve the following goals:

• Completing the beta for back to school
• Whipping up a storm of publicity
• Marketing METANOTES to students and student groups
• Developing partnerships
• Developing enterprise test client deployments
• Developing the enterprise sales organization (or working with that of a partner)
• Developing implementation operations for further enterprise sales

Our brand concept of “meta-” suggests all-inclusive and omnipresent, and our product development, marketing, partnership and user relations strategies reflect this drive.

We are creating an astoundingly useful, fast and flexible alternative to the morass generated by enterprise wikis.

We believe the reluctance of enterprises to commit to a platform gives our team an opportunity to suggest a superior substitute to the enterprise market by early 2009.

METANOTES throws fun and ease of training into the once-bland notion of an intranet application, as well as disruptive elements such as real-time synchronicity that break the mold of the current collaboration software paradigm of static full pages.

We look forward to selling it to all kinds of businesses for all kinds of customized purposes (CRM, marketing, information warehouse, telecommuting).

Companies like Intel and Dell are blazing the collaboration trail for the enterprise, and we want to offer them a superior paradigm for a new central nervous system for their employees and managers.

More notes in the lower left corner

• Click the ‘arrows’ icon in the upper right task-bar
• Click the arrow that appears in the lower left corner
• This navigates to the bottom left of the workspace

we can convert sustained traffic into cash.

• advertising
• sponsorships
  • an amazing place to gather fans of a movie in time for the release of the sequel
• enterprise sales
  • SMB – over the website
  • Large businesses – inside sales or partnerships
• marketplace
  • enable transactions

• Stanford BA Sociology 1993
• MBA UNC Kenan-Flagler 2007
• Serial entrepreneur

right-click on the links so as not to leave this space

it’s a set of spaces about each of GRP’s investments

• I embedded the relevant websites where possible
• Could be an excellent group resource for GRP

here’s a link to the space about Bill Me Later

MetaNotes Addresses Through:

• Ease of Use
• Accessiblity from any PC
• Dynamic Notes
• Control Over Space and Note Parameters
• Taggability
• Built-In Real-Time Collaborative Ability
• Multiple Workspaces
• Capabilities with Diverse Media

Notetaking Pain Points

• Non-Standardized
• Accessibility
• Organization
• Non-Collaborative

This is our alpha. Our beta is going to be released in mid-August.

Some features it will add include:

• privacy
• more note features
• more customized interfaces
  • font sizes etc
• a “publish” mode
• integrate Time Log with METANOTES seamlessly
• notifications
• rating and favorites
• better intra-space navigation
• better inter-space navigation
• ontology elements
• better groups

Fanatic usage by students during this school year will catapult us into consideration in the enterprise.

Smart workers are expensive.

• Collaboration is on every CEO’s mind
  • making the most of their firm’s knowledge assets
  • linking up knowledge workers and project intelligence

salesforce integration would be MAJOR.

METANOTES is a SaaS version of the “IDEO Post-It-Note Brainstorming Process.”

METANOTES incorporates elements of:

• wikis
• chatting
• email
• twitter
• social networking
• delicious

• Berkeley BA Molecular Biology 1991
• SFSU MS Molecular Biology 1996
• MBA UNC Kenan-Flagler 2007 (wih honors)
• career history in biotech

MetaNotes

• Cultivate Additional Segments
• Study Enterprise Pain Points
• Enterprise Alpha Tests
• ID Sales Resources
• ID Distribution Resources

from UNC Business Magazine

MetaNotes

• Solicit Tester/Hero Feedback
• Focus Groups
• MBA Case Competitions
• Events
• Segment Research
• Back-To-School Push
• Develop Academic Strategy

These are the objectives for this space:

• Introduce the METANOTES team.
  • Nutshell the story.
• Explain our “MAGIC FORMULA.”
• Explain the METANOTES brand.
• Explain the METANOTES service.
  • Get Mark creating a few notes :)
  • Show off the potential of “note-chatting.”
  • Link to a few spaces generated by our users.
• Explain the METANOTES business strategy.

Time Log

• Alpha Testers – Feedback
• ID Segments
• ID Marketing Channels
• Develop Segment Messages
• Promote User Evangelism

MetaNotes

• Alpha Testers – Feedback
• Cultivate Heroes

create online whiteboards FAST

collaborate on spaces in REAL TIME

smartphone notetaking is so easy on this system

widgets work wonders in METANOTES

API’s both in and out lead to even more features downstream

• MBA UNC Kenan-Flagler 2007 (with honors, full fellowship)
• UC Irvine BS Computer Science (magna cum laude) 1994
• career history in software development