[Finance] Fwd: Startup Costs

[Brain Tank]

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From: Brain Tank <thebraintank at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Finance] Startup Costs
To: "Christopher J. Pilkington" <cjp at 0x1.net>


Dodge, parry, thrust.

You made your point toward the negatives. I made mine using your logic.
Let's get back to innovating and accentuating the positives shall we?

-David Johnson

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Christopher J. Pilkington <cjp at 0x1.net>wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:02:58AM -0400, Brain Tank wrote:
> > If this works we've even gone a step further, WE HAVE NOT TAKEN MONEY
> AWAY FROM
> > NON-PROFITS. We are generating new income instead while doing non-profit
> type
> > things for the community. Tinkering is good but whatever money a
> Hackerspace
> > gets donated to them for a tool or event could just as easily have gone
> to help
> > people feed their families.
>
> This is fearmongering. You're making the false assumption that
> donations to a non-profit hackerspace are reallocations of
> donations to other non-profits.
>
> Furthermore, I'd argue that if I get members of the community
> interested in technology, and learning the basics through the
> classes we offer, I'm putting them in a better position to be
> employable (if not in the short term, in the long term), which
> does indeed help people feed their families.
>
> Again, I brought up the difference between a hackerspace and a
> for-profit technology workshop because the economics are quite
> different, and this list is centered on the finances of
> hackerspaces.  I did not mean to start a holy war on the merits
> of hackerspaces vs. for-profit workshops.
>
> -cjp
> sig315.org
>
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