What does business "success" MEAN to women and men?

Michael,

A while back when we had posted in the same thread on ABlakes board, when I said that I HAD given up on the HerComputer concept you had said something to the effect of "just because you still sign your messages 'Paul from HerComputer' illustrates that you HAVEN'T given up."

Well, I had then and i still have now!

Reading back on my post it could be misconstrued that I'm still trying to resurrect HerComputer, or still in support of it; and in a very small way there is an ounce of validity there, but overall it's completely not true.

What I mean: as any true blue entreprenuer can attest to, there's a "piece" of you in almost every one of your projects. And in this case that certainly *is* true. I'd be lying through my teeth if I told you that my wife and I are not devestated, heartbroken and extrmely sad that we weren't able to ever actually actualize the concept BUT WE'RE DONE. That doesn't mean for a moment that I'm not in support of it and still think highhly of it, but we're given up!

Michael this is only meant as a "pre-emptive strike" to tell you that we have given up, and the only reason I sound the slightest bit "positive" in my last post is bc there's still a "piece" of me in HerComputer. And I laughed when I just typed that, NO sexual innuendo was meant by that last statement :-)

PaulAgain

> This may have been done by a comedian before
> however I'd never heard it, but if hadn't
> been it's extremely ripe for the pickin :-)

> All us men have heard over the years about
> childbirth, it's pain/reward, and that WE
> could never bear the pain... and I think
> this is exactly why.

> In all actuality, ~every women in the world
> is actually an IRON man!~

> Dien, you might need to back me up here...

> If my memory serves correct the
> "abbreviaion" (sorry, don't
> remember the actual name for the 2 letter
> symbols on the chart) for iron is FE (again,
> I know, big F little E, but play along for a
> sec), and that means that a *FE*MALE is
> actually an IRON MALE!!!

> Correct?

> This whole man/women talk really strikes at
> the core of the whole INITIAL concept for
> HerComputer.com, which was "Women
> teaching Women -- about computers,
> technology and the Internet!"

> With all my heart and sole I still VERY
> FIRMLY BELIEVE that the concept/website can
> work on a grand scale, but thats not germane
> to this discussion.....

> As to Freud: if you click on the below link
> you'll see an actual "living and
> breathing" picture of Freud today; well
> really about 18 months ago ;-)

> He is still alive and well and keeps us
> company every single day, still today.

> Paul

> PS - After you click to see Freud if you
> click on the link for "HerComputer Made
> EZ-ine" and look at the third PERSONAL
> ENDORSEMENT from the top, you'll see a
> *frequent contributor* HERE's "vote of
> confidence" in what we were :-( trying
> to do.