UKNM: Re: UKNM Digest V1 #446

[Simon Stokes]

I'm a bit dismayed at the abuse these guys are getting.  I've always thought

the difference between a good business idea and a good business is getting

out there and doing it.  They're doing it.  I'd be interested to know how

many people (who having a dig here) aren't?


And if you are, have you got backing/a successful business?  (If you

haven't, get your green goggles off & get off the mark - they're faster than

you are.)  (If you have, be delighted that your competition may be of a

pretty questionable quality.)


Surely, particularly in the current climate of bubble-leakage, we are the

faithful and should be pushing encouragement of the industry.  Sure, if

these guys are naive as they seem they may contribute to a bubble burst, but

(a) who's funding them? (b) they'll be first to the wall (if they're really

bad, not just edited that way).


What we should be questioning is the impartiality of the worst Panorama I've

ever seen?  Biased scare-mongering.  It terrified me - I'd rather have been

a witch with a damp ducking-stool in the dark ages than be associated with

the views of that programme.


Not because I thought it was/might be right (computer screens will rain to

the ground and they'll be gnashing of teeth), but because they forgot the

mention a single iota of success, positive contributions to society or good

future prospects (like b2b).  I can't believe the BBC would publish this

kind of blinkered doom-mongering - I'll be watching "When good pets go bad"

from now on...much more rounded viewing.


And another thing...oops...time's up.


Simon Stokes

TEAM LGM marketing communications



> I particularly liked the 3 chaps who were looking for £0.5m funding for a

> mainstream, b2c & b2b renting & selling property web service, who stated

in

> a presentation to a VC that the £0.5m seed financing would fund all the

> online and offline marketing / development."

> [Sam says: msg chopped]



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