The May Report: 3/7/2011: Frank Gruber missed his shot at speaking before SXSW — see his Texas Two Step explanation below about how he was not really in the bottom 90% of those who applied to speak, i.e., the losers; Once again, after the ITDA, the ITA and the UIC OTM, Kathy Liu flew the coop — not sure if her reason was Nancy Sullivan; Mike Rhodes says that he did things “a** backwards the first time” and this time he plans to raise the fund 1st before opening an office — meanwhile there are many things we don’t know yet and now Rhodes has Chicago institution Ruth Ratny on his case since he was helping her with the Bob Love documentary and behind the scenes, it may be Jessica Popov who is engineering this; I had wanted to go 1 full yr. without hospitalization, but alas, I msde it only 236 days…

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No time for a Table of Contents right now. I’ll add the table on the website.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Scoop section:

– Briefly noted, by Ron May
– Ruth Ratny: Syncubator sinks, “partners” must vacate by March 30
– Frank Gruber: Finally responds to Ron’s inquiry about his presentation at SXSW
– Malachi Leopold: The “Trep Life” series I mentioned to you at the January BNC VC group went live last week. Let me know what you think!
– UIC Not Confidential: Kathy Liu has left
– BNC Entrepreneur Event: Making the Transition from Start up to Running a Business March 9th
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The Scoop section:
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Briefly noted, by Ron May

* Here’s a good one I just thought of last night: I’m a big scab picker — on my arms and legs and in The May Report: Isn’t that what TMR really does well? — Pick scabs — Affluence.org with new info. today, Jerry Mitchell, Terry H., UIC OTM, ITA, Gary Slack, Chris Tomes, Al Wasserberger — you name it, if it’s a scab and it itches, we pick it.

Where was I? Actually I was preparing to put out a report with a lot of material in it which wlll have to wait because it’s on my home computer and I don’t have easy access to it now. I have a lot of that material ready including some very interesting documents from David Baecklandt (spelling?) and the event I attended at the Japan America Society on Thursday Feb. 24th. Actually, that’s when I started getting sick and anyone who attended the Funding Feeding Frenzy on Monday Feb. 28th knows that I was in pretty lousy shape by then and I ended up going by ambulance to Illinois Masonic hospital Wednesday morning March 2nd at 4am with a fever of 102.6 and at that point I’d already delayed at least 12 hours longer than I should have waited.

Let me get down to business.

1) I hope to be out of here by Thursday or Friday. The problems are complex and I will of course give you a full update on all of it. Right now, let me concentrate on the report about the Chicago tech world. As usual my problem is complicated. I do have a bad chest cold and it may even be pneumonia, but that, ironically, is the least of our concerns. The abscesses in the liver and abdomen are issues and the fistula between the duoduem (misspelled, it is the start of the intestines) and the bile duct, enlarged lymph nodes, etc. What problems have they not found?

2) The story on Mike Rhodes is only partially told and will take some time to unfold. I had two or three long talks with him since late last week since the last article went out and I know Melanie has talked to him as well.

First of all, Rhodes are his partners Chris Casey (the fundrasing guy) and Mike Sandner (the operations guy) are sticking with him for the enxt iteration of The Sync.

Second, Rhodes had some kind of a deal with the guy who owns the building at 322 S. Green and that deal involved some form of revenue sharing by Rhodes with this land lord and it may have involved deferment of payments. Now Rhodes has not been specific on this with me and I have not really pushed him on it. Mike and his partners also had revneue sharing arrangements with the tenants (the office renters he calls service partners), some of which worked out and some of which did not.

Third, I do know that Rhodes is saying that he feels he did things ass backwards and that he should have have had the fund in place before he set up the Syncubator which he refers to as “the economy.”

Fourth, I asked him point blank why is he looking for new space when he still does not have the fund in place and his response was that he has a couple of investors, albeit small ones, and he is actively talking to a number of others. What I did gather is that he is big on whoever runs Plug-n-Play. Mike likes the Y-Combinator and other venture accelerator models. He does not think that Sandbox is playing in his sand box if I understood him correctly and I get the feeling that while Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell are talking to him he is not looking to become an adjunct of their Groupon operation or for that matter their LightBank operation which as George Deeb astutely pointed out at Tech Pitch a few weeks ago (at The Sync but that night Mike was not there) is built around the idea that Brad and Eric will effectively run the companies that they invest in. Mike Rhodes and I also discussed Michael Ferro who runs Merrick Ventures and he also does not feel that Ferro is in alignment with him either. My gut feeling is that Rhodes will need to have some funding commitments before he opens the new space and that could be a matter of months not days or weeks. The way we left it at the end of our conversation, and remember I was sick, it has yet to be determined.

Fifth, Rhodes has some time constaints. He spent $225K to $250K on the built out and the infrastructure for the space including desks, equipment, wi-fi, etc. He can leave the furniture there until the end of this month (March 30th), but after that he would have to move it into storage and he really does not want to do that if he can help it.

Sixth, to put it bluntly, Mike probably does have some detractors and even enemies at this point. They would include Ed Domain, Jessica Popov first and foremost, Tim Courtney of Key Lime Tie and his whole firm plus a few others. Jessica has openly written against Mike when whe wrote that Mike Rhodes works hard?! LOL.

Of all the things I have seen Mike do or not do, failure to work is not one of them. He may lack discipline and organization, but he does not lack vision or energy or enthusiasm and a propensity for hard work.

Jessica Popov’s issues with Mike are many. One issue is that Mike helped her business and there is a dispute about whether he did enough to meet her expectations. Here is one problem. Mike has too many balls in the air. And when dealing with small start-ups you can’t set up revenue sharing deals without getting disappointed. Mike is learnning lessons here but he should know this stuff. What about midVentures? One person suggested to me that those guys may have taken Mike for s ride, but I have no specifics.

KeyLime Tie with Tim Courtney could be a problem for Mike but there I strongly suspect the influence of one John R. Dallas, Jr. and just in the last two weeks no less than three people have told me that they have John Dallas …stories to tell me but I never got the details before our conversations ended. [Editor's note: 3/14/2011 at 6:11pm: Ron May here. A redaction of one word has been made to the preceding sentence at the request of Mr. John Dallas. The original email version had the word but the first version posted on the site did not have it.]

I do believe that several astute people picked up on the fact that at $99 a desk per month Mike was trying to sell was not getting many takers. They clearly did not sell out the desks and in fact Bruce Montgomery and Bill Anthony should both be credited with having pointed this out to me weeks before the collapse occurred. I was too caught up in all the hoopla surrounding the Syncuabtor events to notice there was a problem. I certainly had a signal that something was wrong when Mike canceled the weekly Sip@TheSync Friday afternoon event about a month ago and said he was going to a once a month schedule. That event had actually gotten pretty good attendance and was on a regular basis getting about 40 people before Mike cut it out.

Another group that I believe Mike is still planning to talk to and may do work with is midVentures but I’ve heard different versions of that story. It has also been pointed out to me that some of the people who were holding events may have been gaming the system by which I mean they were supposed to be sharing revenue with Mike Rhodes and it’s not clear to me if they came through on what they were supposed to be doing.

Now I understand this could be the poor leading the poor and the blind leading the blind but the fact is that that space which we all recognize is a great space had to be paid for somehow and if Mike was unsuccessful at making it work then all I can say is that he is less of a con artist than Terry IH. And by the way that is my opinion of Terry IH, not any formal accusation of criminality nor is it an attempt to diminish his reputation because I don’t know how much more his reputation can be diminished in this report than it already has been. But… I have a sneaking suspicion we’re going to find out about that as soon as I’m back on my feet. If Mike were a criminally minded and dishonest guy, he would still be there.

I was unable to go to Len Bland’s event last Tuesday on March 1st since I was alrerady sick. I’ve heard from Bill Anthony who did attend that one of the companies that presented also has a reverse merger into a public shell structure and is traded on the pink sheets, possibly along the lines of Affluence.org. This raises the question again just as in the case of Affluence.org which by the way has gone completely silent in the last month about whether companies that are operating with these complicated legal structures should be presenting to local investor groups many of which are unsuspecting. It also raises the question in my mind and I discussed this with Bill Anthony about whether guys like Mike Rhodes and Len Bland should not go to the likes of a firm such as Advanced E. to get them to raise their fund of $2-$5MM. Now I’m not specifically suggesting that Rhodes and Bland use Advanced E. as you know but the concept is still valid.

If they are not going to get the money from pension funds and traditional sources of revenue from venture funding or even for angel and seed capital deals then they might need to get help from Advanced E. or other companies they can approach. I think the problem we have today is that there are a lot of people out there who are acting as though one big hit like Groupon is going to transmogrify the way things work in this town significantly, inexorably, and long term. There was a panel held last week at the Economic Club of Chicago moderated by JB Pritzker with people like like Howard Tullman, John Aiello, Jai S., and Eric Lunt that discussed this very issue. We have Excelerate run by “two world class entrepreneurs Troy Henikoff and Sam Yagan” gearing up for another run this summer. And as The Atlantic Magazine pointed out, Sam Yagan does not operate his firm, OKCupid, out of Chicago but rather spends most of his time in New York and is basically a carpet bagger here. Henikoff has a checkered track record even though Sure Payroll was sold for $110MM after receiving $17MM in venture capital over eleven years. But while that may have been a hit, it was certainly not a home run and Troy ran other fimrs such as One Wed and before that he presided over the decimation of the local office of Akamai (spelling?).

Pardon moi, but Michael Birck and Caaey Cowell were world class entreprenuers not Troy and Sam as the TiE-Midwest description referred to them. We have to get back to a sense of grounding here. Everybody will not raise a fund or have a successful start up venture. Every start up is not destined for stardom and it’s time we recognized that the odds are fundamentally against everyone once we come off the drug of Groupon that we have been on for at least 6 months now.

And it has been a drug. Let’s not kid ourselves about that. The growth rate was incredible and the offer from Google was almost impossible to believe along with the idea that it was capriciously turned down. It was easy for everybody to fantasize about how all of this symbolizes a brave new world. I’m sorry I didn’t quite buy into the idea in the beginning and I don’t buy into it now.

Guffaw, guffaw. When professor Steve Kaplan of ChicagoBooth who has some baggage of his own dating back to the days of Michigan & Oak said that Eric Lefkofsky is “the most successful entrepreneur of the last decade” in the United States, one has to wonder what planet he has been on.

The people who are telling us they’ve got this great new thing — whether it’s a Mike Rhodes, a Len Bland, a Sam Yagan, or a Troy Henikoff — we would ordinarily hold such people to a higher standard of accountability and transparency and not just give them a free pass. I’m not even going to get into the subject of the ITA and the effectiveness of our local organizations at lobbying but I have gotten a lot of mail from Tarkus Murphy which if it’s not in today’s report it will be soon and it indicates that there is a great deal of activity going on which many people are simply not aware of and that activity has to do with infastructure funding for rural broadband, etc. I also had the opportunity because I was sick to listen to for the better part of the afternoon late last week the debate on the floor of the United States Senate on C-SPAN about a patent reform act. This bill has been many years in the making and it has gone through dozens of revisions. The essence of it is that we would be switching over from a “first to invent” system used by the USPTO to a “first to file” system. That is a long discussion and I hope that someone takes good notes at the LES meeting Tuesday at Maggiano’s because I am sure some questions about it will come up. Connie Clearly who left UIC’s OTM will moderate and maybe David Gulley will show up since he is a supporter of hers.
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Ruth Ratny: Syncubator sinks, “partners” must vacate by March 30

www.reelchicago.com/article/syncubator-sinks-partners-must-vacate-march-30#

Syncubator sinks, “partners” must vacate by March 30
By Ruth L Ratny March 04, 2011

Mike Rhodes, Syncubator founderLast spring, internet success Mike Rhodes turned his grandiose idea for a tech incubator into reality, when he founded the Syncubator, in a full floor 18,000-sq. ft. West Loop loft.

His vision was to create a collective, a congenial place where budding tech entrepreneurs could develop their million dollar ideas and avail themselves of low-cost support services from more than a dozen “partner” specialists.

Best of all, when it came time to take their idea to market, they would receive financing from Rhodes’ $3 million investment fund.

The problem was – in the end there was no fund.

Investors that Rhodes had claimed bought $250,000 units in the fund to underwrite the next Facebook never materialized.

One company that had been assured by Rhodes that funds for their project were en route racked up thousands of dollars in legal bills preparing the necessary investment documents. The company knew something was seriously wrong when Rhodes did not return Emails or phone calls.

On March 1 the Syncubator officially closed.

Rhodes left the premises seemingly untouched by the meltdown. Not so detached were the remaining four partners, out of the original 13, who felt they had been duped by Rhodes’ vision of a new generation of techpreneurs. “They will show strength with offerings people can’t envision right now,” Rhodes told the Reel in October.

One of those partners was director/cameraman Andy Ryan, whose Moto Media production company was one of the first services to be invited to join the Syncubator.

“Interlinking startups with vendors was a good concept and the space was very cool,” Ryan said. “It also gave us exposure to five or six solid new clients. I thought the funding was a done deal and hoped they’d pull it off. I’m sorry it ended.”

Syncubator rent went unpaid for many months

Money that allegedly did accrue to Rhodes were rents paid to his Syncubator Management Services, which operated the space. Partners paid thousands of dollars a month for their perimeter offices and the startups paid hundreds of dollars for their shared table space.

Many months of unpaid Syncubator rent brought the deteriorating situation to a head. The landlord agreed to interested parties taking over the lease and working out a payment plan – but only if Rhodes were removed from the lease. He refused.

No one is talking about how and why Rhodes relented, thus allowed the landlord to begin the space vacating process, but one can guess.

Days before the Syncubator ended, Rhodes sent out an Email accepting responsibility for the “current situation.”

“Suffice to say there were many reasons this particular space didn’t work as planned…” he wrote. “I take the lion’s share of the reasons that brought about the current situation. Some bad decisions were made that caused us not to launch the fund in a timely manner. That affected our ability to make the model work.”

Rhodes said that while some of the “office tenants” — the Sync partners — may remain in the space, “Others may move with us to a new space that will be the new Sync. The technology and innovation community here in the Midwest is growing. The Sync will continue to foster this growth.”

The four remaining partners who had hoped they might be able to remain in the Sync space were told by the landlord on Friday they had to vacate the premises by March 30. It is doubtful they will move with Rhodes to new space for the next Syncubator.
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Ron May here. I remember meeting Ruth Ratny years ago downtown for lunch and the whole thing was engineered by someone whose name I can’t think of now. It is probably in my archives. Ruth is a Chicago institution and some say she should be instiutionalized.

She is very much of a player in her world and like TMR, she has made plenty of friends and enemies over the years. Jessica Poppov (or is it Popov?) was somehow tied into the Bob Love movie idea and got Mike Rhodes involved, but Rhodes told me it did not work out.

www.reelchicago.com/article/bob-love-movie-kings-speech-america#

That is the article on the Bob Love movie that Ruth wrote.

This article may have been posted and reposted by Ruth, if I understand correctly.
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Frank Gruber: Finally responds to Ron’s inquiry about his presentation at SXSW

Re: Frank, I’m trying to be fair, but you didn’t respond. Are you speaking at SXSW? Frank Gruber to you – 1 hr agoMore Details From: Frank Gruber Hide Add to: To Do, Calendar To: RONALDMAY Cc:Bcc:Date:Mon, Mar 7, 2011 3:04 pm I18N YGP.SaveAll I18N YGP.SaveProgress I18N YGP.ViewAfterSave

Hi Ron,

Sorry I missed this earlier. I hope you are doing well. My email has been a little out of control with all the SXSW stuff we are doing.

To answer your question, I am interviewing Andrew Mason, CEO of Groupon and Travis Kalanick CEO of Uber at SXSW, details can be found here: plancast.com/p/48wb

But that’s not all. Tech Cocktail has officially partnered with SXSW to kickoff their SXSW Accelerator program (a launchpad for 50 start-ups at SXSW) by showcasing the start-ups that will be participating in the 3 day launchpad event at our mixer event Sunday, March 13th. Our event, Tech Cocktail SXSW presented by LiveShare from Cooliris, currently has 3000+ attendees signed up and will include entrepreneurs, innovators, media and investors. We will be showcasing 30 of the latest innovations and start-ups. Last year, one of the showcased start-ups got an angel investment check on the spot at our event. Details here: techcocktail.com/tech-cocktail-sxsw-presented-by-liveshare-from-cooliris-2011-02

We have also partnered with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and his Delivering Happiness crew to produce a special video series as we will be talking to the tech thought leaders, creatives and innovators from across the country during our time down in Austin. We’ll be producing the video series from the Delivering Happiness tour bus (a former Dave Matthews Band tour bus) so we’ll be circling Austin talking tech and reporting back via TechCocktail.com. It should be a fun week. To follow the action just stay tuned to our Twitter: twitter.com/techcocktail or Facebook: facebook.com/techcocktail

We’ll be hosting our next Chicago mixer on March 31st, so we’ll see you soon!

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Hello Ron – hope this finds you well. The “Trep Life” series I mentioned to you at the January BNC VC group went live last week. Let me know what you think!

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UIC Not Confidential: Kathy Liu has left

UIC OTM not confidential
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Hi Ron -

Seems that Kathy Liu has already left the UIC OTM! Must have been Nancy Sullivan’s outstanding leadership that kept her there for so long.

Kathy Liu’s linkedin account lists her current job and her few months at the UIC OTM.

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Hi Ron -

Seems that Kathy Liu has already left the UIC OTM! Must have been Nancy Sullivan’s outstanding leadership that kept her there for so long.

Kathy Liu’s linkedin account lists her current job and her few months at the UIC OTM.

www.linkedin.com/in/ksliu

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Kathy Liu’s Linkedin Profile

From Melanie:
Ron, Here’s the Linkedin Profile you asked for. Yes, it looks like Kathy is in California. Good luck to Kathy! -Melanie

www.linkedin.com/in/ksliu

Kathy Liu
Events Marketing Manager at Meraki, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area Wireless
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Manager, Program and Events at Illinois Technology Association
Marketing Manager at Illinois Technology Development Alliance
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Events Marketing Manager
Meraki, Inc.
Privately Held; Computer Networking industry
February 2011 – Present (2 months)

Business Development Coordinator
University of Illinois
Educational Institution; Higher Education industry
November 2010 – February 2011 (4 months)

Manager, Program and Events
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Hello,

I am hosting the next BNC Entrepreneur Event: Making the Transition from Start up to Running a Business. I host events for the group every month and usually don’t send out invites to my linked-in contacts. However, if you are thinking about a starting a business or have started one and need help running it or possibly thinking of an exit strategy I thought you might be interested in this event.

Also I haven’t been able to reach out to many of you recently and would love to hear how you are doing. Please reply here or feel free to leave a message at 312-612-0442.

events.linkedin.com/BNC-Entrepreneur-Event-Making-Transition/pub/553376

BNC Entrepreneur Event: Making the Transition from Start up to Running a Business
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