By Jay Webb
Step 1 to building a street: Clear the Brush and raise the land.
1. The Tycoon.
So it seems appropriate to start this series of posts by explaining how IndieStreet came to be. Last year, I was completing a screenplay that I had been working on for a few years, and was about ready to start the daunting fundraising process. Before I started sending out the business plan for the film, a friend of mine, Chris, told me that he wanted me to first meet his old boss who had just sold his contracting/tech company for a cartload of cash. He said that this Tycoon was looking for an alternative investment, so maybe this film raise was going to be simple. HA!
By the second month of presentations and dinner meetings, it seemed to both my friend and I that the Tycoon was our guy. He met with us on numerous occasions and seemed in many ways to actually be courting us. More importantly, each meeting resulted in more synergy and productive dialogue than the previous.
