Re: [projectvrm] Dan Lyons Book "Disrupted"

[Kevin Cox < >]

The next Crowd Funding project after Rent and Buy Loans https://pozible.com/project/rent-and-buy-1 will be Crowd Funding to get Lenders to offer what I am calling Envesting Contracts.  Envesting Contracts are a variation on Rent and Buy but for investing in the output of enterprises.  That is, rather than trying to get a return by the value of shares increasing you get your return as a share of the output from the enterprise.

This addresses the funding issue raised in Disrupted.  It gets shareholders, customers, builders of technology all with the same incentive of making profitable sales through the creation of value.

It is achieved by giving autonomous agents a way to cooperate for a common objective.

You can support this idea by buying about a 7 $US Reward at https://pozible.com/project/rent-and-buy-1

If you really like the idea send the link to your network.

Thanks,

Kevin

On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Doc Searls < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

She’s good. I got to spend some time with her a few years back and she’s just as sharp and interesting in person.

Doc

> On Jun 3, 2016, at 3:11 PM, Guy Higgins < "> > wrote:
>
> Re companies with multi-billion dollar valuations and no profits ‹
> Professor Carlotta Perez¹s book Technological Revolutions may provide some
> insight into that phenomenon ‹ from an historical perspective.  She has
> identified patterns in investment history:
> 1.  Investors plow money into new technologies in the expectation that the
> stock price will rise (without considering whether or not the company
> actually produces anything other than (potentially) infrastructure).
> 2.  This investment creates a bubble
> 3.  The bubble collapses
> 4.  Society figures out how to deal with the new technology (VRM in this
> case?)
> 5.  Investors re-enter the market, this time investing in companies that
> leverage the previously created infrastructure and have adapted to the
> societally developed response to the new technology
> 6.  New products arise generating new jobs, wages increase, profits
> increase ‹ everybody¹s happy until
> 7.  The new technology passes the ³knee in the curve² and stops returning
> acceptable investments and the new technology becomes the old technology
> 8.  Investors stockpile money waiting for new opportunities
> 9.  A new technology is developed drawing investors seeking BIG returns by
> investing in the expectation that the companies with this new technology
> will succeed and that the stock price will rise, generating gains even
> without company profits
> 10.  A new bubble Š
>
> You get the idea.
>
> Professor Perez depicts a series of cycles with variable length (but in
> decades - not years) going back to the early 19th century.
>
> Maybe valid, maybe not, but an interesting idea ‹ one that adheres to the
> ³all moving parts are connected to all moving parts² paradigm I learned in
> 1975.
>
> Guy
>
>
> On 6/3/16, 12:10 , "katherine" < "> > wrote:
>
>> Has anyone read Dan Lyons' book "Disrupted"?  It is about his journalist
>> career interruption as a content writer for Hub Spot.  The book is an
>> indictment of the system that generates companies with multi-billion
>> dollar valuations and no profits. But the epilogue really gets into
>> privacy issues. He articulates the irony that the only way you can
>> protect yourself is to opt out but no one wants to opt out of the
>> Internet.
>>
>> For what it is worth . . . .
>>
>> Katherine Warman Kern
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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