As traffic increases, hopefully in the coming months I can win over more people with continued positive fund results, in a thus far very tough market environment since launch last August.
As always, you can see how I am doing by verified independent 3rd party metric here: 'Rising Tide Growth' performance
To future investors, as always, if you change your mind and want to rescind an investment pledge and/or change (up or down) the amount, please let me know since I simply want know where I stand in this process. Also if you see your name below but no location, please drop me an email or comment on this blog entry of your city, state. Thanks.
The original post on the purpose of the blog can be found here [Jan 7: Readers 'Pledges' Towards Mutual Fund Launch]
Totals
January 7, 2008 = $75K total raised
February 19, 2008 (click here for full post): $766K total raised
March 18, 2008 (click here for full post): $994K raised
April 16, 2008: $1.190M raised
Important info since I get this question a lot via email:
One question asked is the process once the fund is up and running - it would be no different than any other mutual fund out there - you'd get an application, prospectus, send the check to a 3rd party clearing house and away you go. Retirement and normal accounts both available, it is no load, etc - nothing different than all the other mutual funds out there, other than the most transparency in terms of manager decisions and daily feedback. So that's down the road once the fund is created - for now I just need a clear amount of commitments/pledges so I can hit the ground running.
| Amount | Who | Where |
| $75,000 | Self | MI |
| $2,500 | Michael D | Oceanside, CA |
| $7,500 | Oth | Parts Unknown |
| $10,000 | Dean D | San Jose, CA |
| $2,500 | Oza P | MA |
| $20,000 | Oren L | Chicago |
| $10,000 | Rob T | NYC |
| $5,000 | Ryan | Seattle, WA |
| $7,500 | Ted | Sunnyvale, CA |
| $2,500 | Brian P | Cerritos, CA |
| $22,500 | David B | Middlesex, NJ |
| $50,000 | Ian | San Antonio, TX |
| $40,000 | "LiquidWindows" | Deep in heart of TX |
| $5,000 | Jonson | LA, CA |
| $5,000 | Jimidean | Parts Unknown |
| $3,000 | Brooks R | Baton Rouge, LA |
| $5,000 | Zlatanscores | Parts Unknown |
| $3,000 | Ben S | Portland, OR |
| $5,000 | Sheng S | Omaha, NE |
| $10,000 | msuberri | NJ |
| $5,000 | David W | Houston, TX |
| $10,000 | Ryan T | NJ |
| $3,000 | NandaK | Nashua, NH |
| $10,000 | WaltF | Parts Unknown (via email) |
| $2,500 | Joe | Scranton, PA (email) |
| $2,500 | Todd | Nashville, TN (email) |
| $250,000 | David R | South Carolina (email) |
| $100,000 | A.F. | Los Altos, CA (email) |
| $50,000 | Satya | Parts Uknown (email) |
| $5,000 | Bobby L | San Jose, CA |
| $200,000 | Ganesh S | Bellevue, WA |
| $2,500 | Michael A | Charleston, SC (email) |
| $2,500 | TJP | Sterling, IL (email) |
| $37,500 | Bob B | VanBuren, AR (email) |
| $10,000 | Pat L | Tuscon, AZ (email) |
| $10,000 | Art H | Auburn, CA (email) |
| $5,000 | Dan D | Augusta, GA (email) |
| $5,000 | Jeffrey H | Greensboro, NC (email) |
| $50,000 | Tom L | San Fran, CA (email) |
| $10,000 | Wesley W | San Jose, CA (email) |
| $10,000 | Tom S (daKat) | Minneapolis, MN |
| $5,000 | Dan W | Mentor, OH (email) |
| $10,000 | Jim G | Marana, AZ (email) |
| $5,000 | Andrey G | Baltimore, MD |
| $20,000 | Doug M | San Fran, CA (email) |
| $75,000 | "Skooker" | Boise, ID (email) |
| $3,750 | Brian C | Milwaukee, WI (email) |
| $1,190,250 |
