The unveiling of “SOLVE” marks the first phase in the soft launch with much fanfare given at our spectacular unveiling event.
We delivered a truly compelling demonstration of our platform as the company pulls out a major win with the successful unveiling of our first doorway, “SOLVE.” With the assistance of the very pleasant and witty Amy Hadley, Gary Kimmons gave an audience comprised of eDoorways’ shareholders, Austin business owners and other interested parties, a preview into the “SOLVE” doorway.
“I’m completely overwhelmed by the turn out of supporters,” said Kimmons. “This is indeed a milestone for this company. Considering our position in early 2008 vs. where we are today, if there is any question as to the validity of our existence, simply take a look at what we’ve done here tonight. It’s pretty impressive.”
With a mini concert sized production, the unveiling event provided attendees with an incredible ambiance. Inside of a brilliantly decorated ball room, where even the main audience seating was arranged in the likeness of the company logo, spectators enjoyed food, drinks, networking and from one of the two stages, grooved to the sounds of Austin’s own growing sensation, T-Bird And The Breaks.
Throughout the presentation, Kimmons was joined by several of our consultants and technology developers. Social media consultant, Ann Collins, who grew the company’s twitter following from 200 to 10,000 followers within 30 days spoke on the importance of the social media and networking community and its influence on the company’s rapidly growing popularity. “SOLVE” contributing technology teams, Real Time Data and Bluestone Partners, assisted Amy Hadley with her “real-time” interactions on the platform – and the “LEARN” doorway intelligent technology developer, Jack Crosscope (creator of SmartOne Technology) briefly described the vision and direction of the second doorway. One of the highlights of the demonstration came from Ian Mitchel, who demonstrated the eDoorways “Apps” for the Apple iPhone as well as the “EC Device” – a space age wireless earpiece with an onboard camera and one inch monitor that comes across the eye. The EC Device is to ultimately enhance eDoorways’ “real-time” interaction by allowing users to view and stream video content, hands free, through a mobile device, from a first party perspective, anywhere in the world.
The presentation, which can be viewed online within the next business day, wrapped with acknowledgments to the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce (Tony Shum attended) as well as other key contributors to the event. The warmest acknowledgment went to the company’s lead consultancy group, AJENE WATSON, LLC, to which Kimmons attributes much of company’s progress, growth and future success.
“The business development division of our firm is very particular about the deals we commit to,” said Ajene Watson, Managing Member of the AJENE WATSON, LLC. “Like with eDoorways, we engage in long term relationships with our clients; generally 15 months minimum. We come onboard with the only expectation being, we will roll up our sleeves, dive into the trenches and work diligently to deliver every available resource to our clients, in the upmost responsible manner. We strongly believe in the future of eDoorways and the grand vision of Gary Kimmons, and despite the trials and tribulations that can often become daunting to a small company, we will not ‘cut and run.’ It took some time to get eDoorways to this unveiling event and it will take a little more time to move through the phases of the soft launch and arrive at a fully functional version of the platform, but, eDoorways will arrive.”
People close to our company were elated by the success of the unveiling event and believe the future for the company has been revealed by this evening. Kimmons garnered lots of attention as he and his team wowed the audience, exciting ongoing applauds throughout the presentation.
October 18, 2009 at 3:12 pm |
BLR, you’re still waiting? Don’t you think it’s time to turn it up a
notch and put some pressure on Mr. Kimmons?
I am not intending to sound negative, but this Ian Mitchell was seen
on a video interview, as simply another shareholder who became an
investor because “he just liked what he saw.” That was before the
start of the eDoorways “Launch” (which, in hindsight was not really a
launch but an overview of what most of us already knew). We next saw
him as giving one of the presentations up on stage, now as some sort
of participant. Next he is announced as the one who Mr. Kimmons is
buying technology from. As a businessman with a great deal of
experience, including tech products and software “launches” or
introductions, I believe that many investors feel the same way I do,
as witnessed by a substantial, sustained sell off, when I state that
Mr. Kimmons has had ample opportunity to release the first product,
SOLVE, by publishing it on the web, for all to see.
This is not intended to cast gloom on our investment (I remain an
investor) but to get shareholders to move beyond looking at this
situation through rose colored glasses, by demanding that we, and the
public, see the actual product. Waiting on “200 businesses” prior to
publishing the platform just doesn’t make sense to me — never has.
That has always been the purpose of Beta release, to get the opinion
and feedback of the users. In this case, a control test market
consisting of Austin businesses.
I sure hope Mr. Kimmons proves my reservations baseless by moving
forward but hoping at this point does none of us absolutely any good.
I encourage you to send a cordial, but firm letter, demanding that
Gary Kimmons move forward with the Beta release. This is ridiculous –
we have been far too patient. We are down 78% from only 2 weeks ago,
with a consistent, aggressive sell off and there should be no reason
for this from what we’ve been repeatedly told and reassured by Mr.
Kimmons.
Again, I would like to think that Kimmons will prove my reservations
wrong by as early as next week, but somehow I don’t think that will
happen. After all, he NEEDS his 200 businesses to participate in a
localized software review before he will let any of us see it.
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October 18, 2009 at 3:19 pm |
Už to do háje spusť do zkušebního provozu ať to všichni vidíme. Jinak se na to investoři vykašlou. Tomu Gary věř.
Určitě by mě to zajímalo spustit i tady v české republice.
Josef Kokta
Czech Republic
October 30, 2009 at 2:15 pm |
Being fairly new to E Doorways as an investor, I thought I’d take the time to investigate the company and its progress to date. After viewing the video on the home page with several other friends recently, we felt we needed to share a few comments about the presentation and how E Doorways might improve the delivery to gain greater audience participation and stronger overall buy in.
These are only recommendations from a group of 7 small to mid-size business owners who would both invest and participate:
The gal in the video (Amy) might want to consider toning it down a few notches. She tends to over talk and interrupts others in a way that distracts from the message and content being delivered. I realize the intent might be to keep it light and interactive yet a different approach might be considered. It seems as though she was trying to make up for others low energy and ended up going too big (as they say in the media industry) or over the top. (If you notice, most dynamic speakers will capture an audience in such a way that it wouldn’t matter what’s being sold, all will buy as a captive audience.)
Consider a more sophisticated forum. One that is professional decorated; it’s worth the added expense to show your audience (from all walks of life) that you’d put as much into your presentations as you would your product/service. Consider a nationally reputable event planner.
Ian Mitchell is a very dynamic speaker naturally; he captures his audience but like Josef explains above, once removed from E Doorways. He’s touting a product that isn’t on the market yet with his interface to your software that he will develop soon. (Is E Doorways going to be selling this project on the site – sorry if we missed that but didn’t appear clear to us). It’s one thing to not have launched the site yet but anther to add other uncompleted technologies still in development. It might be better presented if the products and services that are still in the development stage to be prefaced upfront. Clearly explain that this unveiling is a preview of the exciting tools and technology to come. To set a level of expectation and confidence that this will launce soon (rather than state, “I can’t tell you when” etc – as in a negotiation, refrain from using the words, “no”, “can’t”, “won’t”, “never” “I don’t know” etc and replace them with “possibly”, “stay tuned”, “shortly”, “I’ll get back to you on that” – replacing the negative words with positive and hopeful associations. People tend to remember the one thing done wrong over all the things done right) Still, very exciting technology; looking forward to using it with E Doorway when you get to the Sothern California area.
Mr. Kimmons might want to consider taking a speaking workshop to refine his presentation, delivery and style if he’s to continue to represent the success of E Doorways.
All in all, the presentation wasn’t as impressive as it could have been and thought you might respect the opinion of those of us here in California. As they say, “You have one shot at a first impression”. Review the video from an investor’s point of view. Would you still invest with confidence base on this presentation alone?
Congratulations to all and looking forward to much success with E Doorways.