The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan - Open Source Funding

Re:The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan - Open Source Funding by Fuca on Monday February 09, 2009 @11:37PM (#474696)

I like this Guy good will to always come up with win-win situations all the time with sincerity and open mind.

Just wonder why would be the reason for rule #2: He will not put his money on any business getting revenue from ads; I do not see Google going bankrupt.

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Re:The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan - Open Source Funding by gcheong on Monday February 09, 2009 @11:46PM (#474706)

For one thing it will probably drastically reduce the number of applicants. More importantly perhaps, is it will force people to come up with viable ideas for products that get sold directly to the end-user rather than just expanding the number of advertising channels.

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Re:The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan - Open Source Funding by agotterer on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @01:04AM (#474796)

Web 2.0 fails because there is no business model. Ad revenue works for some businesses, but for the majority it doesn't (they live of VC funding and hope for an acquisition). There is also little chance that you could attract enough sustainable traffic in 90 days to create a worthwhile revenue stream.

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Re:The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan - Open Source Funding by jraines on Monday February 09, 2009 @11:42PM (#474699)

Sure, this rule will filter some false positives -- but on the whole it will surely give him a more interesting (and easy to evaluate) set of ideas.

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Re:The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan - Open Source Funding by run4yourlives on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @08:24PM (#476333)

An out-lier does not a trend make.

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