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Username: vdfman
Date/Time: Sat, November 11, 2000 at 3:38 AM GMT
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Subject: Other Business Plans that looked great:

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These companies and HUNDREDS of other less known dot com ventures had business plans and projections that looked GREAT and passed the intelligent scrutiny of the most experienced and net savvy venture capitalists and CPA's.

Pets.com
Furniture.com
Boo.com
MotherNature.com
Scour.com
DEN.com
Mortgage.com

They ALL FAILED.

The notion that ANYONE can predict or forecast exact sales of any business yet established is a misguided one, but business "norms" have always dictated that capital-seeking companies act as if they know and put it their estimations to paper.

The ability to write a good business plan is to some extent a skill .. but does that same ability translate to business success?? Not at all.  Everyone who goes to business school can learn to write at least a proper and seemingly viable business plan, but NO ONE really knows how REALITY will play out.

The ability to sense the market, hire good people, keep good people and continue to innovate are just some of the MORE essential skills to operate a successful business.

ICANN is exploiting the monstrous subjectivity (in both the assessment and creation of business plans) to further discredit Image Online Design. 

The best Internet and technology minds can't assess business endeavors well, yet ICANN and it's for-hire lackeys throw around with foolish confidence future analysis like they have access to some magical crystal ball that knows all, and whenever they see something they don't like . they just invoke the increasingly annoying mantra "will endanger the stability of the Internet".

This is all just a big joke.  ICANN clearly does NOT know their bounds.  They will endorse Afilias and bring the wrath of the world on themselves, and produce their own downfall. The handwriting is on the wall. 

One example:

The United States is the number world power NOT because it's people are smarter or more diligent, but because of a government and economy that respects individuality and rewards innovation and entrepreneurial efforts. With this in mind, the failure of ICANN to acknowledge what .WEB has done for 4 years (and their pioneering tendencies) is beyond ridiculous, and utterly violates proven economic principles that have created the world's most dominant economy. .. so how can they really be taken seriously??

-Jeb


     

 


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