http://gigaom.com/2012/08/09/offbeatr-kickstarter-for-porn/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:21:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2012/08/09/offbeatr-kickstarter-for-porn/#comment-882998 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:31:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=551231#comment-882998 Thanks for this great, thoughtful coverage. As both Ben and I can tell you, every obstacle an entrepreneur with a tech startup encounters – have a tech startup dealing with sex, TRIPLE them. We’ve been helping each other with our struggles to put a payments infrastructure in place – in my case, for https://www.makelovenotporn.tv/ This is an area with huge opportunity for innovation, social benefit and financial returns – but we cannot get funded, and we cannot take payments. Offbeatr is a terrific initiative for precisely that reason: in the adult world, it’s really difficult to innovate and disrupt when funding is so hard to obtain. I am lobbying NewYorkTechMeetup to schedule one of their monthly demo meetups around this vertical – where Ben could demo Offbeatr, I could demo MLNPTV and the other young tech entrepreneurs I know who have great ideas in this area but no one to invest and help make them happen, could show the tech community why we need to break down this last ridiculous puritan barrier, to build a better world for sex.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/08/09/offbeatr-kickstarter-for-porn/#comment-881938 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:20:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=551231#comment-881938 Selling content on the platform makes sense, not sure about the crowdfunding part yet

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