This co. is a real big mystery. However, someday (who knows when) there will be transparency and tremendous movement forward. It might come in the form of buyout, merger or perhaps current management may look deeper and boldly make initiatives to monetize.
I feel that what's lacking with the co. is actually an epidemic of missed opportunities that is not relegated to hypster.com It seems to be an industry-wide struggle to create streams of income over an ad-based model that has seen dampened enthusiasm due to extended economic recession.
Most Web based companies have been unable or unwilling to monetize their operations. It's like letting people into the stadium for a free hot dog promotion and forgetting that these same people brought their wallets and are willing to fork out some dollars for drinks, chips, T-shirts, magazines etc.
I believe there are parties both actual and potential who would covet the opportunity to direct initiatives to the hypster.com audience. IME it is only a matter of WHEN this is going to occur. The 2.1 million user milestone is nearing.
Based on what happens (or doesn't happen) during August 2010--I want to engage the BUNM shareholder community and draft an open letter to the management from the IHUB community(and beyond if possible) to express our collective support of the property but also express our collective concerns.
Post a big YES in a reply post if you support the idea to communicate with Burned Media en mass. I will tabulate the names and intend to include all names on an OPEN LETTER FROM IHUB COMMUNITY TO BURNED MEDIA There is strength in numbers and no offense to any one poster who tries to obtain DD from direct or indirect sources but we need to collectively do something different here to capture attention of management.
I don't have extremely hard evidence but I suspect as have some posters in the past that BUNM management does monitor IHUB on a fairly regular basis.
I believe this forum is a significant force for spreading the word about this company. It is very likely that the 276 members here at IHUB are owners of hundreds of millions of shares of this co. if not a billion +
