<div dir="ltr">Eric,<div><br></div><div>Most of the ones I built are from the early days, mostly with dialup access.... there were hundreds of ISPs that didn't make a successful transition to broadband.</div><div><br></div>
<div>One of the recent ethnic based ones I built (in the last couple of years) went bust due to a VoIP hack that left them owing their provider hundreds of thousands of dollars, and unable to recover. No, I didn't build the VoIP systems.</div>
<div><br></div><div style>One might assert limiting your demography isn't smart, but that, IMHO would be very wrong. Personally, I think just competing in the open market is the dumbest anyone building a small ISP these days could do.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Pinkerton, Eric <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Eric.Pinkerton@baesystemsdetica.com" target="_blank">Eric.Pinkerton@baesystemsdetica.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">So they *<b>all</b>* went out of business because they had poor business skills?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Given how competitive the ISP market in Australia is, one might assert that limiting your demography from the outset might in itself be an indicator of poor business skills.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Skeeve Stevens [mailto:<a href="mailto:skeeve%2Bausnog@eintellegonetworks.com" target="_blank">skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 8 April 2013 1:29 PM<br><b>To:</b> Pinkerton, Eric (AU Sydney)<br><b>Cc:</b> Joseph Goldman; <<a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Ethnic Centric ISPs in Australia?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Having a viable business model and being able to run a business are two very different things.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br clear="all">
<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>