I think I know how Dr Gho is playing it...

[Kiwi]

If it was open source, most of his competitors will be more inclined to see what it is about. Acell is a good example of this. Rassman despite being sceptical gave it a shot.

Whereas with it not being open source, they are simply less likely to investigate it due to the price.



But that would be more HT doctors will be using his tech.

I tell you something, if Rahal, or guys like that adopted his tech, I would not go to Gho, because Rahal does amazing hairlines.

Your ONLY flaw is that you could use Rahal for you hairline and Gho for everything else....

[yeahyeahyeah]

You keep offering contradictory arguments.

If Gho's technique isn't being offered by anyone else because other doctors are just too resistant to adopting new technologies, then it doesn't make any difference whether his technique is open source or not -- he's not going to be losing business to competitors either way.

If it was open source, most of his competitors will be more inclined to see what it is about. Acell is a good example of this. Rassman despite being sceptical gave it a shot.

Whereas with it not being open source, they are simply less likely to investigate it due to the price.

If Gho's technique isn't being offered by anyone else because it's not open source, he'd still do better at maximizing his return by lowering his teaching cost and setting up an ongoing licensing fee structure to encourage its spread than by trying to monopolize the market on his own.

But that would be more HT doctors will be using his tech.

I tell you something, if Rahal, or guys like that adopted his tech, I would not go to Gho, because Rahal does amazing hairlines.

[gmonasco]

Yes, but the point is, Gho could have open sourced his technology and shared it with the rest of the HT community. He hasn't, he cares about maximizing his return.

You keep offering contradictory arguments.

If Gho's technique isn't being offered by anyone else because other doctors are just too resistant to adopting new technologies, then it doesn't make any difference whether his technique is open source or not -- he's not going to be losing business to competitors either way.

If Gho's technique isn't being offered by anyone else because it's not open source, he'd still do better at maximizing his return by lowering his teaching cost and setting up an ongoing licensing fee structure to encourage its spread than by trying to monopolize the market on his own.

[aim4hair]

Yes, but the point is, Gho could have open sourced his technology and shared it with the rest of the HT community. Like Dr Woods did.

He hasn't, he cares about maximizing his return.

Dr. Woods didn't do that..

[yeahyeahyeah]

Then he doesn't really need to worry about losing potential clients for his technique to other doctors, does he?

Yes, but the point is, Gho could have open sourced his technology and shared it with the rest of the HT community. Like Dr Woods did.

He hasn't, he cares about maximizing his return.

[gmonasco]

The problem is, people are slow to adopt the technology.

Then he doesn't really need to worry about losing potential clients for his technique to other doctors, does he?

[yeahyeahyeah]

If profit were his primary motive, it would probably be more efficient for him to license the technology to anyone who wanted to use it rather than try to monopolize the entire market himself. He can't possibly perform or oversee enough procedures to satisfy more than a small fraction of the demand, but he could collect licensing fees from a whole lot of other practitioners.

Plus, if a new (non-exclusive) treatment came along that leapfrogged his, he'd be stuck with a bunch of clinics offering an outdated technology.

I believe he already offers some sort of licensing fee, 50k. The problem is, people are slow to adopt the technology.

I believe he trains people up at these new clinics.

[gmonasco]

So IF his technology works, rather then sharing it with all the HT Drs free of charge, it probably makes more sense for him to monopolize the market.

If profit were his primary motive, it would probably be more efficient for him to license the technology to anyone who wanted to use it rather than try to monopolize the entire market himself. He can't possibly perform or oversee enough procedures to satisfy more than a small fraction of the demand, but he could collect licensing fees from a whole lot of other practitioners.

Plus, if a new (non-exclusive) treatment came along that leapfrogged his, he'd be stuck with a bunch of clinics offering an outdated technology.

[yeahyeahyeah]

It is starting to make sense.

He is apparently opening up a clinic in jakarta.

See here:

http://www.baldtruthtalk.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=9010

So IF his technology works, rather then sharing it with all the HT Drs free of charge, it probably makes more sense for him to monopolize the market.

He knows that if surgeons such as Rahal, hasson and wong etc who are superior then him adopt his tech free of charge, chances are he will lose a lot of potential clients to them. So in order to get around this and cope with more people wanting his HST, all he needs to do is open up a new clinic as a new cash stream. Which is what he is currently doing.

The problem the other surgeons will eventually have, many people may opt for Ghos technique over theres, it is already happening, so they will either be forced to adopt his technology or lose revenue.

Pretty genius.