tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774209914015607176.post2390280945916252879..comments2020-03-10T19:56:34.104-04:00Comments on My Fon Blog: A piece of advice from Martin VarsavskyMy FON Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09725557024578271873noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774209914015607176.post-47533866589767993422008-10-12T00:55:00.000-04:002008-10-12T00:55:00.000-04:00"It was painful. It was sad. But we still had fill..."It was painful. It was sad. But we still had fillet mignon for dinner that evening."<BR/><BR/>I'm suprised that Martin needed to waste tens of millions of dollars to find out that people who invest their own money in something are people who are more serious about it. He could have given me 5 million and I would have told him that 2 years ago. :D<BR/><BR/>By it's title, Martin seems to be aiming this blog entry at his "peers" in the big business club. If he's just now discovering such obvious nuggets of wisdom, I fear he's failed to impress them.<BR/><BR/>What is the deal with him saying they charge $2/day? They charge $3. Maybe this is why 66% of the money collected is spirited away by Fon before they payout to the Bills? Martin thinks Fon charges $2, and so someone at Fon cooks the books so that Martin sees the expected figures in the end?<BR/><BR/>Martin has been out of synch with Fon's official figures before. Just last week, he said Fon had "nearly 300K" active Fon hotspots, and the very next day their blogmonkey claimed "over 400K".<BR/><BR/>Doubling the price of day passes is a fatal mistake. We Foneros all see that immediately. Martin's reasoning for doing it seems to project from his discovery about how [paying for a router] correlates with [being more serious]. If so, he's making that mistake for a idiotic reason. Bills are franchisers, and Aliens are customers. They don't work the same way. Franchisers are looking for good investments. Customers are looking for the best deal.<BR/><BR/>I just think Martin is using the current financial turmoil as a pretense to make deliberately bad decisions as though they were reasonable reactions to it. He wants Fon off his shoulders so he can concentrate on Link Sortener and Mexican Wave. I wonder, if Fon shut it's doors, would Martin know until the weekend was over?El Fon Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15408820170076051744noreply@blogger.com