scheduled video meetings

[killerstorm]

I know a CEO of a company which, among other things, owns a scheduled video meetings service. Basically, it is like a camwhore site, except that it is not for camwhores, but just for people who want to sell video chat time. E.g. it can be used by people who provide consultations, coaching; maybe just internet celebrities.

So they have implemented this thing, but they have problems marketing it.

I think it would be cool to accept Bitcoins on this site and to market it to Bitcoin community.

Why? I think there are both people who want to earn coins, and there are people who have coins to spend. And both are savvy enough to use payment system...

Use case example: a freelancing programmer besides his usual programming gigs can offer programming consultations via video chat. They might be useful to students who learn programming, or just people learning programming on their own. For a programmer it might be interesting because it takes a fixed amount of time and payment is upfront. For a student it's better than forum consultation because it's realtime and, perhaps, more comprehensible.

I've talked to company owner about adding Bitcoin payment options, he is generally sympathetic, but he does not believe that there will be a demand significant enough to justify development costs. I've offered my help to integrate some Bitcoin payment option, but without marketing it doesn't make any sense.

So I see an other option: if somebody in Bitcoin community is interested in this business he can enter partnership agreement with that company. Company will host the service, 'somebody' will do marketing, adapt landing page etc. Profit coming from Bitcoin revenue will be split among parties.

But this needs some financing. I doubt they will take us seriously if we can't pay for hosting and maintenance upfront. Also, landing page won't create itself...

(I'm myself a programmer, I can integrate some Bitcoin payment option, but I neither have any capital nor I have any marketing skills.)

Maybe financing can be done via Bitcoin capital markets (like GLBSE IPO), but I'm not good at business stuff.

Any Bitcoin investment bankers willing to help to finance this?

(I did not mentioned web site URL, please PM me if you are interested, I just do not want any embarrassment.)

[yoniassia]

Maybe we can help you IPO, send me private message.

[killerstorm]

Thanks, that would be cool, but I'm also looking for somebody to help with marketing/bizdev stuff, I'm afraid I won't be able to do it myself...

General 'video meetings' concept is too generic, I think, perhaps it's better to make sites specially for various niche use cases, for example, "Real time freelancing". I believe there are many good uses.