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On Tuesday 19 March 2002 00:19, MJ Ray wrote:
John Tapsell tapselj0@cs.man.ac.uk wrote:
It all boils down to money. They ask me, 'why would a company pay us any money if they can get it for free?'. And I cannot answer - but then I'm not a business man.
Then you have no place in business. Sorry. Go learn a while, or find someoen who is and will teach you while running this company.
come now, lets not troll each other :P
Most of the business parts of the company are done by the venture I do it with (what I've been calling the VC's for lack of a better term) They also pay for business training for me :)
particulary since as a closed source system I'd be looking at selling it for 10's of thousands of pounds per client (large company)
Yes, holding customers to ransom and screwing as much money as possible out of the ones you have is always a good business action(!) OK, if you find some gullible people, you get into the black quicker, but at what price?
I see where you are coming from - but at the end of the day I'm offering a product. I'm the 95% shareholder, so no one is going to force me to do anything I consider too unethical :)
I will be selling them the product on the basis that it will save them money - - if indeed it does, and they make back the money they paid me, does that still count as me 'screwing as much money as possible out of [them]' ?
To Ray - They get 5% equity, and 1.5% profit - which is _very_ good.
OK, Tapsell, and what about the control I asked about? etc.
Sorry, I was sort of implying that there was nothing else (Well, on top the business has to pay back 2/3 of its initial debt it incurs). I have full control over the company.
JohnFlux