1: Learn how the introduction of particular online markets will provide people with new and improved ways to develop, demonstrate and profit from expertise. Details >>
2: Learn why owning the most popular such markets is an ideal way to increase profits for an American media conglomerate that owns a broadcast TV network. >>
3: Recognize that the aforesaid conglomerates are actively seeking to acquire Internet startups. >>
4: Learn why a sitcom that centers on the love life of the markets-maker’s CEO is foundational for establishing the most popular markets of the aforesaid kinds. (The other foundational asset is an XSB-powered query optimizer that will expedite the development of software for valuing ad spaces on blogs.) >>
Importantly, if the sitcom writers employed by a startup markets-maker of this kind are thrilling audiences online, the company’s valuation is unlikely to suffer merely because the writers lack TV credits. From a 2004 panel discussion transcribed in the 2007 edition of Writing the TV Drama Series, a book by USC screenwriting professor Pamela Douglas:
[Former student of Professor Douglas’s]:
At film school we heard a lot about people not selling pilots unless they have been on a staff. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong…
[Professor Douglas]:
You’re right. Seven or eight years ago, when you were in school, it was rare for people to sell pilots if they had never worked on a show. In the intervening years, beginning writers have gotten interest in their pilots even if they’ve never had any television experience.
5: Learn why a seed investment of $300K should enable a startup to attract users to its markets, and, in the process, to create a seller’s market for itself (i.e., multiple media conglomerates seeking to acquire the startup). >>
6: Read the SCU blog, which updates and expands on steps 1-5 .
