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Free registration at the forum removes this block.Reason #3
I predicted that my revenue model would be unsustainable.
Due to technological advancement, I didn’t think lead-generation in my particular space was sustainable longer than a few more years. This meant, in order for my business to grow, I would have had to switch revenue models to a reservation based service. If you’re not familiar with the limousine business, a reservation-based service is both labor and technology intensive. My objective was to sell a majority interest (I still own a tiny % of Limos.com) to a capable investor group who shared this same vision of a reservation-based model and sit back and watch them do it. This is exactly what happened — the new management is slowly phasing out the lead-gen model. With this transition and based on the latest funding round, the company is probably now worth 5X the valuation at which I sold it. My effort in this growth has been nothing.
MJ has to be asking himself if it was a good decision financially.
Wouldn't it have been easier to deal with the challenges in your current market rather than approach a new market and deal with those new evolving issues?
Did you need outside funding? Couldn't you self fund it at this point?
You could have gradually moved your way into it
Did T.J. Clarke buy it from MJ? I never heard of T.J. Clarke until just now
Obviously you hold different values.
100% respect the decision but these were the honest thoughts running through my head when i read that. Not sure if that was a personal opinion or trying to justify financially how it made more sense to sell or keep it.
I read this article this morning and I was disappointed.
Not sure whats up with that above, just voicing my observation on your article... will not do that again, apparently you do not like perception of your writing to one of your readers.
Yea, imagine how I feel. This appears to be the internal company policy to which I've voiced my displeasure and frankly, I consider libelous. As the founder (and also a current owner/investor) it is at the point where a legal consultation on my part may be required.
No worries bro; you might have viewed that particular challenge differently than I did. For me, writing a book was the next challenge.
In any case...it's only words
Yea, imagine how I feel. This appears to be the internal company policy to which I've voiced my displeasure and frankly, I consider libelous. As the founder (and also a current owner/investor) it is at the point where a legal consultation on my part may be required.
"In early 2008, he and his team bought the Limos.com URL. They set out to build a network of providers who would agree to the company's strict standards in return for inclusion on its website."
I read this article this morning and I was disappointed. First the article didn't answer its own topic question and I think it would have been appropriate to give MJ some credit just like they give credit to any other founder of any internet company that was taken over. MJ's name did not appear once in the article(help me out if i missed it). They make it sound like the dude built the company from sweat and sand.
I read that article the day Paul posted it to your Facebook wall and left a comment on the article about what piss poor journalistic homework they did and that they they should look into who actually *founded* the company. I told them *that's* the true entrepreneur story, not an acquisition company buying out a successful startup.
But apparently the moderator choose not to approve my comment, lol.
2 peoples comments went thru about them buying the company and not just the domain...everyone should go like it! I bet its someone from here!
lol
I bet its someone from here!
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