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Re: TheKompany.com: A New Approach to Linux Business
by Shawn Gordon on Tuesday 26/Sep/2000, @10:12

While I am very pleased with the story overall, there are a couple of items I wish were left out. I was joking about salary rates in different countries, and it got posted like this, and it's not accurate. We pay a very fair wage for the countries we are in (we span 11 time zones), every country has a different salary that is fair.

So far the company has been self funded from me. We have other things we do than products, we do web site work, specific project work, and some consulting. This all helps to make money, but we would certainly like to sell more of our PowerPlant product (sales have been growing steadily). Hopefully people will support us by buying our products, so we can support them by adding more hands.

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Re: TheKompany.com: A New Approach to Linux Business
by Ezz on Thursday 28/Sep/2000, @07:29

Ok Shawn.
Why don't you try for some Venture Cap?
WHy not make a bit of noise, let people know you're doing great things? I'm sure that extra financial backing would enable you to budget for marketing etc which (I assume) you can't do so much at the moment, which, in turn, would boost sales.
I also can't help but notice that Slashdot has ignored the Kompany, whereas they welcomed HelixCode and Eazel with open arms. I think theKompany really needs to raise it's profile where possible.
Still, as I say, I like the basic philosophy and kudos for doing something!

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Re: TheKompany.com: A New Approach to Linux Business
by Shawn Gordon on Thursday 28/Sep/2000, @07:56

We are looking at some financing options right now, I just don't want to give up the company for a chunk of working capital. If we can accelerate sales of PowerPlant, and with our new products coming out in the next couple months, we might be able to keep going.

PR is tough, a lot of people have been ignoring us. Loki is our distributor, and /. loves them, and Loki still hasn't been able to get /. to say anything. We've tried, users have tried, but I guess there is too many neat things with Lego's going on to notice us. We run PR pieces as often as makes sense for what we are doing.

There will be some product reviews in Linux Journal and Linux Magazine later this year, and Nick Petrely is supposed to interview us soon. Also got a call from the Discovery Channel to do an interview soon. We are also looking for a VP of Marketing to really get things kick started.

Thanks for your suggestions and kind words

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