The day stretched into a blur of meetings and dead ends. Their first stop was one of the cramped innovation centers where nothing, literally nothing was innovative at all.
Darren felt disgraced that those people thought they could make business plans out of what they were suggesting. Did they think the business world was that easy?
He literally had to die and resurrect just to have enough money to even start one.
Ugh!
Then they went to a co-working space downtown, where a pair of brothers pitched a mobile game app — a clunky knockoff of Bejeweled with no hook.
Darren passed politely, catching Amelia's subtle headshake.
Next was a cybersecurity duo in a garage, their idea solid but their pitch a mess, asking for $2 million with no prototype.
"I'm not even sleepy yet and you're already selling me a dream? Come back when you've got something besides hot air and a PowerPoint."
