A Social Experiment - LETS END MPB TOGETHER

[diffuseloser]

Yes

£500 GBP

[Hairismylife]

$500 if it can come out in 2 years.
$0 if it comes out after 10 years.

[potato1987]

Yes
£100, more if it was crowed funded with treatment.... i.e. investment partially returned as treatment of access to reduction etc.

[thehatman]

Get a KICKSTARTER like NOW

[jjo]

This forum alone has around 28,000 members today. This does NOT include all the other forums either, but I could see the number of total people on forums that have signed up at some point in the last 5-10 years surpass 50,000 easily.

The problem is this:

Lets say we have an audience of 50,000. How many of those members are active? Of those active members, how many of them would be willing to make a donation? Of those donations, how many of them would be willing to make a donation of $500?

Let's be generous and say 5,000 people would make a donation. And lets say its about $100.00.

This gives you only $500,000. Thats still not enough for Aderans to go on with their research. Depending on the size of their team, that wouldn't even cover a years worth of salary for everyone (assume average yearly salary is 50k, that only gives you 10 people in their team to pay out). You can be sure its more than 10 people working at Aderans and you can sure as hell assume they make more than 50k/year.

I hate to sound like a debbie downer, but this initiative is small potatoes... really small.

Only way where it'd even be possible is if we got all the admins from all forums across the globe and be adamant about nearly EVERY member pitching in some cash.

But even then that poses a problem, as I remember reading about Microtransponder, a tinnitus treatment company, where they couldnt not receive funding from the public but only from larger entities... or individuals who've had an income of $250,000 in the last year... or something like that. You can BET on it that there are regulations on the funding for such a project.

So again, and still nobody has addressed this damn question i've raised:

Aderans completed Phase II testing. Asia doesn't require Phase III. Why not release in Asia NOW? Why are we so hellbent on the idea that a treatment must be done in USA? There is a world beyond your borders.

but hell don't you think if all of us here collected a good amount of money and then contacted the press, maybe like an Oprah or something.. we could get a ton more people, even celebrities?

[eighteen]

Donate? Id be willing to invest in a company with good proof that it works. And id invest according to results.

[veca]

Yes

500 USD

[jjo]

would donate 100-500 depending on proof of results and speed to marketplace

[jamesst11]

this thread is old and dead... more optimistic jargon. Where is this "hypothetical company"

[silver]

i would pay money, 500 or more.
someone on here was saying about getting the press involved and celebrities.. that sounds like a good idea to me. seems like hairloss affects everyone even the high profile stars and celebrities.. seems to me we have all the money in the world, just lack the organization and direction.