Re: Newsgroup suggestions - for moderators

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 00:00:00 +0000

>>In the US these days, some people won't consider you a "major player" at
anything, unless you have a business plan that calls for a billion
dollar IPO inside of two or three years.  And yes, I agree that that's
arrogant.  But it's the way some people think.  Too many people getting
rich, too much prestige attached to that.<<

You're right of course.  But I referring, as
''major player'', to the current PBM scene, in which nobody is making billions
of dollars!!

Of course, in other enterprises, everything we do is small fry... you can't
compare PBM to toothpaste or oil or supermarket chains... although the business
ideas are the same but on a much smaller scale.  In the end, its all supply and
demand.  We are simply a little service industry.

PBM, while very important to me, is not my major form of employment, by the
way.  I run an Engineering firm in London.   But that's
just work... I *LOVE* PBM!!!  Although it
earns me far more than PBM ever will... go figure!!

>>Personally, I think that there's no reason to abandon one business model
that works for you just because there exist vaguely related business
models with more revenue potential.<<

Thanks.  That echoes my own sentiments.

>>  If everyone thought that way, yes,
we wouldn't have any PBM companies.  We also wouldn't have any board
game companies, and no non-franchised stores or restaurants, and no
small farms, and lots of other things, some of which some of us would
actually miss.<<

Exactly!

Steve Tierney
-Madhouse UK

References

Re: Newsgroup suggestions - for moderators
David desJardins <desj@math.berkeley.edu>
Wed, 23 Sep 1998 00:00:00 +0000