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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in the words of romania's first 3rd republic president, "we come from the ducks that come from the trucks"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not quite to the degree, but god help you if you seem to think there's no such thing as "thracians", as distinct from whatever sarmatian cloud
mircea_popescu: which differs in unexpected places from commonly accepted history, of course.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know romanian citizenship requires you to know... official romanian history ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, so run me through your expense structure. you need 1.25mn (exactly), which is to cover what ?
mircea_popescu: casual examination would indicate otherwise, but hey. you're a millenial aren't you ? got plenty of time.
mircea_popescu: of course, the us college hasn't been giving people thinking tools in 50 years, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: Drew the problem of not having completed formal education is that you don't end up with a structured thinking process. this is not so bad for people like engineers, who don't really need it quite to the degree, but you're trying to go into business.
mircea_popescu: airbnb to this day doesn't realise that it's much more successful in canada than in the us, or why.
mircea_popescu: perhaps excusable on the grounds that few higher level thinkers end up in busienss school
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo about half the case studies in us business school are actually this or applications of it, if memory serves.
mircea_popescu: but your answers to this problem will have to be much much better than merely not appearing like you ever heard of it.
mircea_popescu: sometimes there are reasons nobody else is cooking by holding the stove on their head.
mircea_popescu: you see, "We will do this by having a different approach than any currently existing brand." is no guarantee of success.
mircea_popescu: you're setting yourself for this task of herding 100 cats, and THIS is why nobody else is doing it.
mircea_popescu: this is an extremely complex, difficult and resource intensive endeavour.
mircea_popescu: neither insulting the locals, nor allowing them to dilute you into nothing
mircea_popescu: to have a brand, you have to manage localisation issues.
mircea_popescu: similarly with coca cola, and all large consumer product brands that use local anything
mircea_popescu: see, a good chunk of mcdonald's corporate expenditure goes to making sure that mcdonalds hamburgers are the same in atlanta and lincoln
mircea_popescu: do you comprehend the problems of creating brand identity over 100 geographicallyh disparate items ?
mircea_popescu: "we have 90-100 events associated with the brand across the country throughout the entire year to build promotion around, using each event as a social media hub and continuing to expand our presence. This will create the most unified EMC related brand that has existed so far, making it the literal perfect company"
mircea_popescu: yes, i get the general idea that the us contains a number of cities.
mircea_popescu: these aren't the result of throwing darts at a highschool map
mircea_popescu: but you're supposed to do the research. do the demographic work. KNOW why X and not Y.
mircea_popescu: (Atlanta, Dallas, LA, NYC, Portland, Denver, Chicago, Miami, etc) < the count is 8, and this stinks of poorly researcher. why denver and not seattle, for instance ?
mircea_popescu: then how is this supposed to work ? is your team made out of 10 people ?
mircea_popescu: what about georgia can support 10 medium/large scale events ?
mircea_popescu: 8-10 medium/large scale events << this is where you show the demographics of the area.
mircea_popescu: branson can say easily a quarter billion. coming out of you it just sounds ... like a millenial.
mircea_popescu: "4. Our strategy is designed to create a brand which will cater to what this man and his company are trying to accomplish, which will value our brand at easily a quarter of a billion dollars."
mircea_popescu: also generally speaking, this sort of thing we're doing here is paid on retainer, and by the hour.
mircea_popescu: generally speaking the prospective investor will run into one of these, and just drop the thing silently.
mircea_popescu: Drew the edc i knew was like the world's largest electronic stuff, but i had no idea some sfx thing had bought it
mircea_popescu: this is quite important btw. never forget that the internet exists more as a mpex contract than anything else.
mircea_popescu: "Much has been made of peering agreements. Many peering agreements were made between engineers in the early days of the Internet and consisted of not much more than a single page of text – if there was anything written down at all. They weren’t really contracts in the way you might consider a formal legal agreement."
mircea_popescu: "and develop it into the ideal acquisition target for the below company for the further below reasons" > can you name such a brand that was acquired ? when, by whom, how much ?
mircea_popescu: "in the most optimum direction" unless you're mel, optimum is a superlative for you. it takes no comparative.
mircea_popescu: Our plan is to continue the brand > you mean "lunar massive" ?
mircea_popescu: which brings us to the next step, which is the wot, whose purpose is exactly that.
mircea_popescu: this is something you may wish to consider for the next thing you organise.
mircea_popescu: well so you can appreciate our problem. if we were to try and evaluate your claim, we'd have no objective weay to distinguish you from a random guy that bought a ticket.
mircea_popescu: any published material that includes your name in connection to this ?
mircea_popescu: Drew aha so nov 15, North Atlanta Trade Center, $40 a ticket.
mircea_popescu: most industrialised countries do not, lepidopterae being some of the most sensitive to pollution
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform romania also has an abundance of free ranged butterflies.
mircea_popescu: Drew there seems to be no mention anywhere except on the promoters' fb pages.
mircea_popescu: because everyone's living handout to handout, and the best way to be loved is to create the appearance of doling out handouts
mircea_popescu: but in backwards world, "having spent a lot of money" is a claim to fame,
mircea_popescu: mike_c everyone thinks "it's good pr". somehow the fucking world is upside down. for instance, in a sane market, the shareholders of the acquirer would discount ther share
mircea_popescu: "a start-up company whose product gives users with a way to grammer"
mircea_popescu: lol pron anal-yzation engines is where the webmoney is!