I've spent years conceiving, positioning and building businesses, both online and off. If you are considering starting an internet business, or if you have already begun one, I can be a useful touchstone.

I've posted pictures and links to two of my online companies in the sidebar to the right. SpeakToMe is my current venture, a service for online experts. Experts can sign up and provide their audience with broadcasting, chat room, click to call, and ecommerce elements. MarketPlayer was a reasonably hot internet company during the late 1990's, raising over $10.5 million in three tranches of venture capital and employing 43 people at its peak.

In the offline world, I started a hedge fund in 2002 that ran for a few years using a high frequency quantitative trading system, and I was co-founder of a money management company that built over $6 billion in domestic equity assets back in the early 1990's.

I am also the founder and developer of VCA Stocks and this Live-Answers.com website.

I will spend up to 4 hours reviewing your new business at $25 per hour. During those four hours, I will analyze your market segment, help you build your technology, advise you on your marketing plan, advise you on a human resources strategy, advise you on capital raising, and help you write a business plan.

Of course, I will only be able to do a small portion of any one of those things in four hours. But I have done all of those things in the past, and I will concentrate on the area that you think needs help.

You have to pay for the first hour through the paypal link to the right. So click the PayPal Buy Now icon, send me $25 and we'll get started.

You can also contact me directly at ted@vcastocks.com.