No more IPO's for non-existent businesses. I think we've already gone through our .com phase of projects that had little or nothing to show after the money has gone so enough of that. Also enough of Pass thru's for schemes like pirates, I think overall he's had a bad effect on the bitconomy, at the very least raising expectations of returns to unrealistic levels, and funding through GLBSE has been a very large part of that.
I agree with your intentions, but I advise you to be careful with your execution. Over-regulation would be catastrophic.
For businesses with revenue (doesn't mean profitable) looking for capital to grow, we'll work with them to IPO (the IPO's are going to be a lot larger as well).
Is being a lot larger a requirement? Some small IPOs on GLBSE have been quite successful.
For smaller projects we're looking at starting a fund that will get them to the point of a viable business or project and then IPO them on GLBSE (think ycombinator for bitcoin).
If you do it well, this would be absolutely wonderful. Let me know if I can help.
I think the 100% hands off approach has proven not to be the best for GLBSE, investors, and the projects themselves.
I guess that depends on your perspective. I agree, many of the companies turned out to be scams of one sort or another, but not more so (probably less so) than Bitcoin projects in general. A certain amount of that is probably unavoidable at this point in the Bitcoin market evolution. Now, I'm not saying that less scams would be a bad thing, but I also think the market will naturally learn on its own. 'Protecting' the market from that learning could lead to unintended consequences later, when someone leads a much more elaborate and harder to recognize scam. Children don't learn to walk by being held up by their parents. They have to fall, cut themselves, get frustrated, yell, scream, and try again. Eventually, though, they obtain their balance - and rarely, if ever, fall again.
I'd like opinions and suggestions on where to go from here.
Oh, I've got plenty of those.
All in all, I think your ideas show merit, I just advise you to tread with caution.