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When you say profit, do you really mean profit? What is one to make of those numbers in that spreadsheet? Surely there are hosting costs and processing fees that eat into that. Or do are those numbers figured after costs are taken into account?

In any case, I completely agree with everyone else here. Unless the 37Signals sites continue to link through to this site, it instantly loses at least 20-30% of it's value right off the bat. There is very little value in this site from an IP perspective. It appears that all the value comes from the existing user base and the publicity generated from 37Signals. I'm not going to discount the user base, that's obviously huge. But I'm not sure it's worth much without the 37Signals name behind it.

I have a hard time believing it would be worthwhile for them to hawk the site publicly just to fuck people over though, so I do take them at face value when they say that they believe it is worth that to them.




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