Me too. 

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Thanks for sharing your story - maybe the sport pilot is the way to go. For me a lot of the joy was going places - I'm sure I'll come back to it again - even if it is just to go up with an instructor of friend.

Yep skiing for me is over. I suspect if I make some custom brace I'd be able to ski again but keeping my legs partially flexed for a long time starts to really burn my quad. Other than that I'm fine.

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Paul Berberian
paul@berberian.com
720.938.2828 (m)

The Gold System ROI calculator shows a cost at 7, 5 or 3 cents per minute which is a function of upfront setup costs. The cost of conferencing has continued to decline but has leveled out in the past year or so (why I still follow this industry I don't know). Wholesale costs are around 2 cents per minute to resellers - which means small companies can get conferencing around 4 to 8 cents a minute. Large companies north of 1M minutes a month can get 2.5 to 1.2 cents a minute - conference providers (those with equipment VoiP or TDM) pay around .7 to .8 cents per minute for LD. Their average selling price is still around 5 to 8 cents - so healthy margin even today. BTW for free conferencing to work it needs to be TDM based so they can collect on exchange fees.

Bottom line VoIP never really delivered on the promise of zero cost transport for business use - the telcos just lowered their rates to make VoIP just another way to connect a call.

The big change is the cost of the hardware to do a conference call and still waiting in the wings is international. In my mind - the big revolution on conferencing will be one price per minute globally (around 5 cents a minute or less - business grade).

Now what you can do in the call and how it all links to tools you already use like Exchange will potentially be disruptive.

So are we at another disruptive point in conferencing - I don't think so based on price. Disruptive service offerings must be price competitive but offer a ton more functionality and integration - and hopefully a true international solution. Price is just no longer the issue. Just my .7 cents - and I need to forget this stuff as well.

Thanks. I've always made it a point to meet with entrepreneurs to talk about their ideas - regardless of experience or where they are at in their cycle. I never really put much of a filter on it - other than if I can squeeze the time in my schedule. Your story puts a nice description around what a lot of us "middle age" folks do to help make Boulder a great place to start a business.

no go ahead - thanks

Paul Berberian
paul@berberian.com
720.938.2828 (m)

Nice job - love the epaulets.

If you click the "Show 3G coverage" - Boulder is blue and if you zoom in it looks OK

Thanksfor the hat tip.

Paul Berberian
paul@berberian.com
720.938.2828 (m)