Ideabloc.com giving away 25% of its company to copywriters

jamesbell953

Hey Guys,
I just posted this on warriorforum.com but I thought some of you might be interested in it too.

Ideabloc.com is giving away 25% of their company to programmers, designers and copywriters.

I just talked to a friend who knows the guys doing it and he thinks they have an awesome idea, but couldn't tell me about it.

check it out: ideabloc :: build the next big thing

Mr. Subtle · 07:12 PM

Since "the company" just started today, I'm going to take a wild guess that "they" are going to be paying talent with stock that has NO value.

Last time I checked 25% of nuthin' was still nuthin'. Hey Angie... HEADS UP! Now you can get "paid" stock for your writing.

By the way, very nice landing page. I'm partial to Courier and just love 3D effects.

NextDay-Copy

Sounds good -- initially.

Being a 20+ year veteran of Silicon Valley, I do have to wonder how much other companies have given to the same people.

My advice, if you join and it hits big and you stand to cash in -- consult a tax person before any exercise of any option. Consult tax people early and often and don't wait until April 15th. You will get screwed if you do.

A friend of mine ended up having to pay taxes on the difference between the price of her options and the price of the stock the day she exercised her options. Never mind that the stock, itself, went down quite a bit after that.

Live JoyFully!

Judy
Profit Strategist/Copywriter
NextDay Copy

Michael Roach

Oh well, I entered my name and email. I figured there was no harm in finding out more information.

Here's the message I got after I clicked submit:

Quote:

Congratulations! You're entry was received successfully.

The blatant spelling mistake immediately strikes me as unprofessional... and definitely makes me suspicious that this thing may be a scam.

Hobbitopoly

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael Roach

Oh well, I entered my name and email. I figured there was no harm in finding out more information.

Here's the message I got after I clicked submit:

The blatant spelling mistake immediately strikes me as unprofessional... and definitely makes me suspicious that this thing may be a scam.

Good catch. I have to agree with you.

Erik Mulder

Whatever it is, it got us paying attention and taking its core message (this is going to be another 'youtube') seriously enough to consider it - without any proof.

Not bad...

Stephen Davies

According to their whois info, they just got the domain name a couple of days ago and it is owned by a company with a "de" extention for the nameservers (Denmark? Deutschland? Germany?... not sure where this is from).

Domain Name: ideabloc.com

Status: ok

Registrar: SCHLUND+PARTNER AG
Whois Server: whois.schlund.info
Referral URL: http://http://registrar.schlund.info

Expiration Date: 2008-09-27
Creation Date: 2007-09-27
Last Update Date: 2007-09-27

Name Servers:
ns57.1and1.com
ns58.1and1.com

Domain Name: schlund.info

Status: CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED, CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITED, CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED, CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED

Registrar: 1&1 Internet AG (R113-LRMS)

Expiration Date: 2011-07-31 17:14:13
Creation Date: 2001-07-31 17:14:13
Last Update Date: 2002-10-10 12:36:37

Name Servers:
nsa2.schlund.de
nsa.schlund.de

Al Henderson

Interesting ... they didn't even lock-in the domain for more than a year. Now, I wonder why not ...?

6yearsin

These people actually visited Elance and posted a 'project' to announce this. That's how I got wind of it. I entered my info too - what the heck?