This seems unfunny.
It is interesting to envision Lordfoul at a beach party with hookers and beer though. Maybe at Seareach.
I am happy to see Brian and MGoBlog making some early returns on HTTV. Mentioning it in a coveting way in a board post, then lamely covering up with hooker and beer jokes, is unfunny and lowbrow, to me at least.
like hookers and beer? What's wrong with you?
I someday wish to be as heterosexual as you are, you big manly man you.
I was heterosexual? There are gay prostitutes too ya know.
Cute avatar btw.
How about some Foster's and koala hookers?
lots of chlamydia in the koala population.
Z-Pack to the rescue!
stuff that's posted on MGoBoard these days is eyebrow raising. Go to 4chan or reddit for that stuff, I don't see it as a value add here.
I could maybe understand someone making that as an off-comment reply after a handful of replies were posted, in trying to be funny, but to post that as the lead reply seems juvenile and attention seeking.
The "we" suggesting partial ownership in "What are we doing with the money?" is pretty funny to me.
I assumed Brian reinvisted the extra in the site and professional development, but you could do a separate Kickstarter for hookers.
I would love for it to be reinvested but I don't expect anything of the sort. no idea how they can allow the blog to go down at 2pm on a Tuesday.
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on a Tuesday?
My new pet name for Ms. ND Sux is "Blog."
on black
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Use the money to finally get a good gateway. I'm sure they have something at Lowe's or Home Depot.
It fixes everything. They have large cans there.
WD40? Is that like 40 Wolverine Devotees?
It doesn't seem like he's on the site quite as much in the offseason, but 40 WDs would I think just add to the 503s. Although his whole binder of stuff hitting MGoBlog at once would probably be sensory overload.
Brain should do whatever the hell he wants. He built this empire, all of our money is now his money.
It's not like the amount over the funding amount is straight cash, There are marginal expenses - printing, shipping, etc.
Brian and the MGo team deserve a payday, and I think they should get it.
But let's not pretend that he gets to take the entire $38K and put it in his pocket, and that with the profit from HTTV he is now Brewster from Brewster's Millions. Although that would be awesome.
Uhh, I'd imagine Brian uses a decent amount of it to stay alive?
Season tickets to Detroit Viper games.
Investing it in Hail & Unite.
I noted with glee recently that the crowdfunding effort closes on May 19, and they have raised appx. $8K of $65K: https://www.funderbuilt.com/Cause/Projects/11322/hail-and-unite-the-mic…
The lack of any serious push to win donors (outside of desperate tweets to Madonna, Leo DiCaprio, et al.) confirms in my mind that the whole thing was about resume lines anyway. The H&U "CEO" has talked about how he became buddies with the Funderbuilt CEO - I think that was the entire goal.
Hair products and hockey jerseys.
I was going to suggest to our fearless leader the utimate grill-out at the MGoPatio near the stadium, although it is in the middle of a neighborhood and it could get noisy. Still, plenty of room for a celebration of decent size and with luck we could perhaps get Brian or Seth to present a faux quarterly or yearly review to the "shareholders". I will create the PowerPoint to go with that - "Blog Performance Vs. Beer Consumption" may end up a thing after all.
Has the blog ever considered "Going Public"? I know it's probably an insane and stupid idea, but I would be willing to bet that there would be a fairly decent base with which to draw investors. I mean, there were over 1400 peole that funded the kickstarter.
No serious need for capital, and splitting ownership would simply mean splitting profits. If Brian wanted to own his own servers, I guess an IPO could make sense, but it is way more cost effective to rent the server space.
I'm not really in tune with this type of thing in the internet sector. What you're saying makes a lot of sense now that you bring it up. Thanks for the info!
It could be like the fan-owned sports teams. I would happily frame my dividend checks rather than cashing them. I would also happily pay up to be an owner of MGoBlog.
I also don't think that it would necessarily mean the Brian would have to give up control.
While I don't know that going public is necessary - the SEC filings will kill you - I could get behind an equity offering.
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