When your website goes down, it has a way of showing you who your friends really are

UPDATE: The Acumen Fund web site is back up! Thanks again for all your e-mails and, most of all, for your patience. (January 30, 2009)

To: Acumen Fund friends, Partners, community members and website visitors

From: Acumen Fund staff

Re: Unscheduled, unplanned website maintenance

Memo: Thank you! Our website went down this morning (New York time) for some “unscheduled, unplanned maintenance,” as we’re calling it. Basically, our server had a big hiccup and we’re in the process of restoring our data, backing everything up, and re-starting the whole shebang. Almost as soon as it happened, we started getting e-mails from you - our friends, colleagues, partners, Partners, community members, fans - to let us know what was up. As much as we don’t like to get caught with our servers down, it is totally refreshing and reassuring to know that there are so many of you out there who care enough to write. So seriously, thanks.

We’re working as hard as we can to get this fixed. In the meantime, might we suggest a visit to our YouTube channel? How about our Fellows blog? Or NextBillion.net, which Acumen Fund co-owns? There’s also the Facebook cause, the LinkedIn group - you get the idea.

We hope you’ll bear with us as we make these fixes. Thanks again to everyone who wrote - we’ll post again here on the blog when life is back to normal.

Gratefully,

Acumen Fund