Being that my company has designed five of the top ten porn sites on the net and that I have been involved in the myriad political efforts in this industry I can fairly speak from experience.
One oft overlooked reason porn didn't dot bomb is this:
People who run adult Internet business have learned to do business under an Internet only paradigm. All the big dot coms tried to do business in the Wall Street way (paying on ads per impresssion, for instance) and they bombed. The Internet is a world that one has to understand seperate from all others to succeed in. The guys in the suit and ties are lost here. They tried to come in and make a killing the same way they did in the brick and mortar world and got sent packing by people who learned to survive a whole new set of rules.
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Being that my company has designed five of the top ten porn sites on the net and that I have been involved in the myriad political efforts in this industry I can fairly speak from experience. One oft overlooked reason porn didn't dot bomb is this: People who run adult Internet business have learned to do business under an Internet only paradigm. All the big dot coms tried to do business in the Wall Street way (paying on ads per impresssion, for instance) and they bombed. The Internet is a world that one has to understand seperate from all others to succeed in. The guys in the suit and ties are lost here. They tried to come in and make a killing the same way they did in the brick and mortar world and got sent packing by people who learned to survive a whole new set of rules.