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Bob Zumbrunnen

01/01/02 3:35 PM

#8572 RE: Ruellit #8567

you and Matt share the same goals for what you want Ihub to become, but you don't mention what that is?

Well, many things.

We share a belief that a proper Mission Statement can simply be "Please the customers. Have fun. Make money."

We agree that the level of "interference" imposed by the owners of a site is ideally as little as is necessary to foster a high volume of quality discussion.

We agree that simple interfaces rock!

What we want is for Investors Hub to take its place among "the biggies" of market-related message boards. We feel that there is room for a number of market-related message boards to thrive and make a profit in the process. You don't have to be the king of the mountain (which is how I'll always see SI) to make a living and have a large community.

The main thing, though, is that unlike a number of sites in this market, we know that the community is everything. And while I don't have any notions (illusions) of topping Yahoo for size or SI for quality, I fully expect that through the efforts of Matt, myself, and the people who use the site, we will become known as the model for how to run a community-centric site.