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Re: You're Either Venture-Backed or a Lifestyle Business: The Big Lie

jameshaft — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 02:18:25 -0000

Hunter, you might be too far gone to see the trees from the forest..."The profitable seventeen person company with an enterprise value of $20 million, 90% owned by its founder?"

A) the entrepreneurs in this situation would never know or have use for a calculation of their equity value, since the vslue of the company is what someone will pay, and companies in this category are notoriously hard to sell ( hence the label "lifestyle business" -- which is not derogatory, just means that it supports the lifestyle of the founders and has unlikely chance of returning VC returns, something which only VCs care about)

B) the fact that you think $20m in equity value us a relevant threshold, shows your unconscious prejudice for unicorns and other larger businesses, as 95% of the entrepreneurs would be happy with the company with a $3-5 million equity value.

;)

Re: Los ISPs mas grandes de USA piden Opt-IN BT

jameshaft — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:56:14 -0000

Re: Los ISPs mas grandes de USA piden Opt-IN BT

jameshaft — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:53:15 -0000

so let's create the platform and set the standard!

Re: Los ISPs mas grandes de USA piden Opt-IN BT

jameshaft — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:40:26 -0000

This is the part that had me laughing:

"However, the ISPs also suggested that legislation is not now needed to protect customer privacy online. Despite a flurry of concern in recent months about some ISPs tracking subscriber activities, lawmakers should give ISPs and Web businesses time to develop a set of best practices for behavioral advertising and information collection, said Tom Tauke, Verizon's executive vice president for public affairs, policy and communications."

Why not just let them hold our info and our money, and only give it back to us when we ask! lol!

I think that the model should be an open standard, like credit. If you collect information, then the consumer should have the right to review and edit their file and the advertisers should be required to show a link to the database which initiates any contact, so that the consumer can see how the advertiser chose him as a target.

All this should be couched in anonymity, so that only behavioral patterns can be tracked and never personal identity or persona identifiers, like tel numbers, credit cards and ID numbers.

A well designed standard would benefit all users equally.