DISQUS

Thanks for the round up. I was there as well but had to leave after Paul's talk. Found your blog while trying to catch up with the rest of the events.

The Build-Operate-Tranfer model is easier said than done, from my personal experience. For starters most clients get worried with the legalities and have concerns about the trust factor . Unless proper contracts are in place, most of the clients consider it as a scary proposition, especially when it comes to dealing with the courts/system and other formalities in developing countries.

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In general, writing off startups just because they were built upon off the shelf scripts isn't right. As Joe#15 pointed out above, an angel or a VC capable of investing $1.5 mil is not dumb enough not to understand how the $1.5 mil is going to provide them with better returns.

Did any one try contacting MeraVideo's founders to get their perspective?

Now, if someone is simply bamboozling, then that's completely a different story and in no way means that successful startups cannot be built using cookie cutter scripts.

Hey, I thought you didn't want to name the TV site after Scoble. Is it now christened ScobleShow, finally?