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Old 04-26-2008   #1
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Please show me the most successful project that you had 11 months after you started your first adult site? or better yet 18 months or even today.
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Please show me the most successful project that you had 11 months after you started your first adult site? or better yet 18 months or eventoday.
LOLOLOLOL.....my first adult project was wildly successful after two months. Four months later I quit my last career. In fact at two and a half months, I watched in total amazement my first 150K just whizz into the old bank account. And then the profits started to roll in after we started taking it seriously. I am not bragging, Shellee, but this is where you crash and burn. Many of us had that experience and you don't have a fucking clue about that. I would never have lasted 11 or 18 months in this business without a huge profit motive. It just ain't that much fun. Sheeeeiiiit.

Oh, and btw, that was when 150 K was serious fucking money.....
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LOLOLOLOL.....my first adult project was wildly successful after two months. Four months later I quit my last career. In fact at two and a half months, I watched in total amazement my first 150K just whizz into the old bank account. And then the profits started to roll in after we started taking it seriously. I am not bragging, Shellee, but this is where you crash and burn. Many of us had that experience and you don't have a fucking clue about that. I would never have lasted 11 or 18 months in this business without a huge profit motive. It just ain't that much fun. Sheeeeiiiit.

Oh, and btw, that was when 150 K was serious fucking money.....
Sounds like it was competitive with Microsoft stock. What was the project? You mean the 20,000 shares I got in 1996 did not do that? Or what do I actually not have a clue about. Today without working I make 4 times that just sleeping and I am not trying to brag but just wondering what you think I don't have a clue about because it sure isn't making money.
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Sounds like it was competitive with Microsoft stock. What was the project? You mean the 20,000 shares I got in 1996 did not do that? Or what do I actually not have a clue about. Today without working I make 4 times that just sleeping and I am not trying to brag but just wondering what you think I don't have a clue about because it sure isn't making money.
Silly girl. You asked the question. Your apoplexy is becoming apparent as your veneer wears thin.

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and like I said, it was a common story back then.
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Silly girl. You asked the question. Your apoplexy is becoming apparent as your veneer wears thin.

"and the colored girls go do be do be do be doobedoo"
What veneer?

I had some success, I took off time to raise a family, I talked about some ideas I had for three years and then a year ago attempted to test the waters and see if I could actually do what it took to implement them after so much time off.

I have not even began to build the dream I have only starting to put together the pieces of the foundation and I am sorry but I did not catch the name of the adult company that you run?

I am sure you are a super busy CEO, probably too busy to mess with productive advisement for someone new. Right now all I know is that your really good and starting Shellee Hale threads and bashing me for my thoughts and opinions.

At this point that is all I have seen you be good at.
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...I am sorry but I did not catch the name of the adult company that you run?

I am sure you are a super busy CEO...
The whole point, that you have missed here, is that one did not have to be a big company or a CEO to make that kind of money in this biz 10 years ago.
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The whole point, that you have missed here, is that one did not have to be a big company or a CEO to make that kind of money in this biz 10 years ago.
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The whole point, that you have missed here, is that one did not have to be a big company or a CEO to make that kind of money in this biz 10 years ago.
Ok and how many of them retained their great wealth from that era?
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What veneer?

I had some success, I took off time to raise a family, I talked about some ideas I had for three years and then a year ago attempted to test the waters and see if I could actually do what it took to implement them after so much time off.

I have not even began to build the dream I have only starting to put together the pieces of the foundation and I am sorry but I did not catch the name of the adult company that you run?

I am sure you are a super busy CEO, probably too busy to mess with productive advisement for someone new. Right now all I know is that your really good and starting Shellee Hale threads and bashing me for my thoughts and opinions.

At this point that is all I have seen you be good at.
And you think I care. nuff said bout that. And no you did not catch the name of the adult company I run because it was never pitched. You just protest too loudly. Your attemtps to dazzle us with brilliance are teetering on the brink, so you are trying to baffle us with bullshit. Damn the torpedoes. Press on regardless. But you are not fooling me with this horse patoody.
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And you think I care. nuff said bout that. And no you did not catch the name of the adult company I run because it was never pitched. You just protest too loudly. Your attemtps to dazzle us with brilliance are teetering on the brink, so you are trying to baffle us with bullshit. Damn the torpedoes. Press on regardless. But you are not fooling me with this horse patoody.
You must care you keep starting Shellee Hale threads for some apparent reason.
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Sounds like it was competitive with Microsoft stock. What was the project? You mean the 20,000 shares I got in 1996 did not do that?
Ok, here's the rub. Working for Microsoft from '86-96 does not automatically give you creds in the internet world, especially not in the adult internet world.

That was a different time and place.

The only thing coming into this biz with lots of money does is make you perfect bait for the sharks. You are not just a penguin, you are a big, fat, juicy, sauteed and barbequed Penguin.




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Ok, here's the rub. Working for Microsoft from '86-96 does not automatically give you creds in the internet world, especially not in the adult internet world.

That was a different time and place.

The only thing coming into this biz with lots of money does is make you perfect bait for the sharks. You are not just a penguin, you are a big, fat, juicy, sauteed and barbequed Penguin.




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Ok, here's the rub. Working for Microsoft from '86-96 does not automatically give you creds in the internet world, especially not in the adult internet world.

That was a different time and place.

The only thing coming into this biz with lots of money does is make you perfect bait for the sharks. You are not just a penguin, you are a big, fat, juicy, sauteed and barbequed Penguin.




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Not working for over 10 years while all this really evolved gives me less credibility in adult internet which is a fact that I am fully aware of. But where I have to disagree is this mentality that adult is something "special" when the companies and people here that I have noticed have any merit or worth are those that know how to start a Corporation and run it like a real business which means having a mainstream approach and in many cases experience.

The deals I am working on now all have crossovers because overall the technology and the IT talent is brilliant in adult and way under valued and truely can cut the costs in mainstream. A really smart woman or man with a contact list and relationships cross industry to facilitate some of that now is brilliant. The adult stigma is lessend as the dollar decreases and the need to do more for less without involving outsourcing to other countries and L-1 Visas(especially with the need to bring jobs home)

I do have alterier motives that is also a fact. I don't care for the direction that our govt. has chosen to go in or the prosecutorial choices but in order to get the information I needed to best position and debate the issues I needed both sides of the story and experience - this is why I put myself out there to be critisized at the cost of instigating the debate and reviewing the strong opinions on all sides.

As I say we remove the content and your left with the same thing mainstream or adult (adult much more talented) but overall none of us are really that special and especially not me. I do have a talent for which those who have spent time with me are fully aware of which is why of all the people working in adult there's just the handful (two of whom ripped me off) that keep coming after me.

One thing is for sure the insults towards the lame attempts to defend myself are warranted and deserved because being under NDA with so many people I can't even talk about what I have really done of value or who I have worked with.
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Here's the deal. Real world or internet. Adult or straight. There are not a lot of boutiques with CEO's. There are a lot of boutique businesses that do very well and afford their owners a good lifestyle. I don't make the same spectacular gains of the 90's.....few do. In fact business ain't exactly booming at the moment, but it does afford me a good middle class lifestyle with a couple of houses, cars, tv and a couple of trips every now and then. I still maintain that you are clueless with your NDA's and strong opinions. Save that shit for your Republican party Shortbread Socials.
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Please show me the most successful project that you had 11 months after you started your first adult site? or better yet 18 months or even today.
http://www.2Much.net
and then about 1 year later,
http://www.LiveCamNetwork.com

I started with 1 idea, and I stuck with it until I could finally afford the time to start a second idea. Today these 2 businesses (related) are all that I do.

Shellee Maybe you could stop listing your 2 dozen or so domain names on your business card and corporate site and stop bragging about them as if they are all different projects when they are really just upsells (whoohoo), and concentrate on 1 and 1 only.

Certainly, a CONSULTANT would probably tell you to build one successfull website before you start another. But hey, what do I know.
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