The Latest VC Niche: Porn
from the filling-a-gap dept
There are plenty of venture capital firms that pick a particular niche in which to focus their investments, whether it's something like nanotechnology or pharmaceuticals or wireless. But apparently there was one niche left untouched: the adult industry. Hence AdultVest, an online investment community designed to foster investment in porn and other adult businesses. Given the proliferation of online porn, it wasn't obvious that the industry needed outside money to grow, but perhaps the business just wants to do its part to build up bubble 2.0. One final question: if porn VC firms grow, will they take on porn-film-like names spoofing those of mainstream VC investors?Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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My concern
I can't think of a lot of 4-letter words related to the industry (other than PORN and NUDE) that are suitable for publication in the daily newspaper...
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VC firm?
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It's About Time
Of course, there are many sites that pretend to be family oriented so they can acquire investment capital from so called “reputable” sources. But, when they start off with a lie as the basic premise, this leads to danger such as kids and adult content within the same communities. Jewel of Indra is the first to go on record as an adult 3D chat community with porn materials. But, because of the honesty we get no juicy articles in c|Net, Wired, or any other online magazine. And we won’t get them until we ourselves have built up our membership to a point were we can no longer be ignored. Again, this requires capital. Personally, I am appalled by the hypocrisy of it all. There would be no websites of fortune 500 companies the masses not been first drawn to this technology when they learned they could share files and review naughty pictures and such right from their computers. Like the VCR the internet itself was built on the back of porn. Any company out there attempting to offer start up and expansion capital for the adult industry gets a thumbs up from me.
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This is very unnatural. When I think of your "game", I also think of the unlikelyhood of it being an aid to a very unbalanced walk of life. In fact, it is a piece of which is making it harder for this generation of courtship to succeed humanities roots. Human bonding through physical contact by overcoming the fear of rejection or fear of failure because of lifes little inconveniences.
If you say its entertainment, I call it filth.
If you say its an aid, I call it an abomination.
If you call it convenient, then you "badgirl" need to think about why it is that you made this in the first place
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I don't suggest you visit Mr. Rodriguez, it is not for you. Please try MSN chat or Yahoo.
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Developing a product like the Virtual Sex Machine took over 5 years in development because of lack of huge up front capital. We got it done, but now we are in the same pinch after 6 years along in product sales to grow the product line into a medical device. Talk about need for BIG dollars.....
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