Re: Venture Capital Funding/Venture Partnering For Web Site Developers/Entrepreneurs Hello; My firm, DataMerge, Inc. is currently developing a program to provide financial backing and strategic assistance for commercially viable website development. It is my job to locate individuals with ideas and/or plans for creating high profile, niche market websites that, with our assistance, can be profitably brought to maket. We are very interested in unique, highly innovative, information based sites which are targeted to meet the needs of a specific market, industry or user group. While we are interested in creative services offered through the internet to a targeted group, we are not interested in backing companies for expanding into run-of-the-mill areas such as ISP, contract web-site design, or outsourced graphic design. We prefer to work with individuals or small teams (no more than three). Don't be discouraged if you don't have a lot of business experience. What we look for more than anything else is creativity and "entrepreneurial spirit." We find some of the best ideas come from college, and even high school students. What we can provide the entrepreneur includes the following: * Strategic, marketing and business planning assistance * Financial support during development * Marketing/promotional assistance (capital, coordination and partnering) * Long term royalty stream from site * Further site development and maintenance contracts DataMerge is currently the largest provider of niche market financing information and financing software applications to US businesses, intermediaries and finance professionals. DataMerge has a user base of 21,000 individuals, and a newsletter subscriber base of 73,000. DataMerge has been featured in publications including Inc., Financial Times, Entrepreneur, Success, Denver Post, and LA Times to name a few. If you wish to be considered for this program, please email me (Spencer Kluesner, CEO, DataMerge, Inc.) at VentureWeb@aol.com. Please provide a brief (one page or less) description of the website you propose to develop. Snail mail: DataMerge, Inc. Website Development Dept 1720 S. Bellaire Suite 310 Denver, CO 80222