http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845 In forum General Investment Discussion en-us Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:13:55 -0800 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:13:55 -0800 http://slcapex.com/forums/ Kudang SQL2RSS admin@slcapex.com webmaster@slcapex.com 60 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
Thats a nice ROI even the IPO not filling :D

TX!

in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Sportsbets Writer ]]> Sun, 25 May 2008 04:14:31 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/13608 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
I'm not concerned about it deterring investors. In fact, you seem to be catering to a market of actual investors rather than day traders that amass profit from imposing their bulk share interests on the open market. Until now, I've been quietly debating the longterm investor to day tader ratio of virtual investors.

If I have a concern, it'd surely be that there's not enough bona fide investors to support an approach that promotes stability. For now, I'm going to take it on faith that such a concern is baseless.

You have my best wishes, Bart Heart,

km


in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Konner McDonnell ]]> Sun, 25 May 2008 01:52:10 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/13604 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
Why 25,000 share?
Well I was looking for real investors as share would cost about $1.00 or 300L$. Also with having a low number of share, would make it possible to pay weekly dividends. The plan would of been to set the price of the movies around 750L$ to 1000L$each. I'm pretty sure that we can sell a minimum of 45 to 50 movies per week, which would of made a minimum dividend of 1L$ a week. I'm sure we can sell more then 25 DVDs of a new release each week. I personally don't like getting dividends that I can't pull out of the ATM.

Are you concerned that the comparatively low number of shares may deter investors?
Well I would think that the low number would bring them into the IPO, if I had to say I think it would of been the price that deterred investors, but but those number go hand and hand. Most of the people that have invested so far have bought more then 15 shares. I have always thought that a lower number of shares is better. I feel the lower amount of share is better for the investor, as it would become more of a demand for a share, as it produces a profit. I believe that VHI has the lowest amount of total share of any other company on all of the exchanges. And has not been below IPO price for more then 2 days.

The big problem I see right now is that people are scared of the market. VHI sold 240,000 shares @ 10L$ in 8 days. And that was the highest priced IPO per share at the time. That would never happen now. At least not until the market is cleaned up. And I already explained how that need to happen and who it need to start with in another post called "Heads up the wave has started " I'm now waiting to see the post call "Heads up the clean up has started" But enough about that market and more about DVD, I don't see the IPO going through cause of people being scared, so I will probably pull it after the first of the month if we don't get to 10% before then. I'm sure not posting news about the IPO and hyping it up like other companies do with there IPOs has not helped it. But I have answered ever question sent to me as soon as they were sent even if I'm not online, and even had a demo of how the movies worked in SL to show the quality of the movies and the security of the URL, as the URL does not show on the about land under media. I'm not big on hyping up a company just to get people to put there money into it, enough companies have done that and then not produces after going to the floor, actions speak louder then words. And the actions that I'm referring to is doing the buy back on BHE and doubling the money of the investor, by buying those shares back at double what they purchased them from the market for. Second is that I have paid consistent dividends on VHI returning about 22% of the IPO price, over 24% after this month. And we will be having a shareholders meeting on the 31st, to vote on a plan to double the assets of VHI. I will release this publicly now since I have told a few people about this. If DVD doesn't sell 10% by the end of the month we will probably pull the IPO. But have no fear we will keep letting the residents of BHE enjoy the movie like we have already been doing. And to thank the people that have invested into the IPO, I'm going to send them 10% return on thier investment just for holding up there money. I have copied the list up to the moment of this post and they will get a return, for there time and money.

Again Bo and SLCapEx that you for letting this thread exist.

Bart Heart AKA Bart Hart


in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Bart Heart ]]> Sat, 24 May 2008 23:04:36 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/13599 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
Two questions for Bart:

1. Why 25,000 shares?
2. Are you concerned that the comparatively low number of shares may deter investors?


Best,

KM


in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Konner McDonnell ]]> Sat, 24 May 2008 21:26:10 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/13598 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
the IPO is selling very slow it´s possible it will not fill in near future. Just 9,316/10,000 (6.84% sold) until now :(
I think people fear the high share prize and that their money is locked for long time until the IPO is sold.
Little bit sad because it´s a nice concept and idea and Bart Heart´s businesses and Shares performed very well (BHE/VHI).


<Sportsbets Writer



in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Sportsbets Writer ]]> Fri, 23 May 2008 23:28:31 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/13548 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Bart Heart ]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 13:56:21 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12745 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
Based on the business prospectus available in the VSTEX Exchange, it lists very limited detail regarding the expenses and projected revenue breakdown and as I am a potential investor, this information is pertinent. You mentioned 20% or so goes to the scripter, and the rest? Further transparency is needed as part of due diligence.

Same for assets held. I wouldn't know that you own 40 sims if you didn't state this in the Forum. You can potentially utilize the owned sims and create a small section solely for users to select their movies as a way to minimize lag issues. This can also be part of your business model regarding how you plan to address bandwidth and lag issues.

Regarding private investments, this ensures the safety of the investors when investing in large sums. Investors investments are safeguarded against stock price volatility and inherent risks. Investors such as myself report private investments for tax purposes as these are reported in thousands. Instead of profiting through dividend payments as additional shares in the Exchange, the Promissory Note will be drafted based on the set terms and conditions, and the investment return will be paid in RW cash. Even if you are a public company, private investments should be made available. You can issue $3M of public shares, but large investors may be hesitant purchasing shares as they retain no value nor do they have assurance that the stock price wouldn't plummet after IPO.

If you don't have a business plan already drafted, that's fine. We can discuss further in-world.

iV

in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by iVentures Volitant ]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 09:32:05 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12733 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
SL users can hook up their PC/Laptop to the TV as I have done many times. The resolution will be based on the video card performance and the TV itself.

Copyright wouldn't necessarily be an issue if the URLs are not shown and users would have no way of copying or distributing the movie. The structure is similar to Blockbuster and Netflix, and the difference is that the content can be viewed in the SL platform. You can even watch the movies instantaneously. I'm thinking they will be using their own viewer or Quicktime to ensure true quality content.

Only questionable item would be bandwidth as there will be two variables: your networking performance and theirs. I wouldn't want to watch the movie if it stops in the middle or it takes a long time for the movie to load. Major lag time can also occur if the users decide to watch the same movie around the same tim, which can occur after the announcement has been made regarding a new release.

Bart,

Can you confirm the statements above? Also, would a DivX codec software be necessary?

iV

in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by iVentures Volitant ]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 09:23:30 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12731 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
Bart Heart

in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Bart Heart ]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 09:03:27 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12729 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
Your business objective looks promising and I would like to learn more. Is there a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) that I would need to fill out? Do you accept private investors? If your business model suits my portfolio, I can have a Promissory Note drafted and go from there.

iV

in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by iVentures Volitant ]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 08:43:47 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12728 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845


in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Bart Heart ]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 08:08:52 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12724 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845 I'm not sure I totally agree with demo answer, but I also haven't done an extensive check either. I also would assume since your in contact with the MPAA that, that discussion has already happened anyhow.

Good luck.

in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Investor Nitely ]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 08:06:53 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12723 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
'Lets face it SLCW is working on a deal with MBC, how many people our going to sit down and watch that, when people can watch it in RL. Well someone will, just like people watch RL movies in SL.'

The answer to that I don’t have - we have a pretty good following but I cant put a number on it.. Just like you though our market is limited in many the same ways. The only difference with us our shows have nothing to do with RL – they are held live in SL and and preformed by SL residents. Basically what I’m saying our product is SL content while yours would be RL.

We are also a non for profit sportsclub and always have operated that way - we rely on the generous donations of fans and sponsors (and my RL paycheque) to cover costs. We are reaching out to a limited niche market in SL and so far have done very well - only because we have a great group of members and sponsors coming together to dontate their time and lindens a fun cause. As a business for ‘profit’ I acknowledge we would have a very tough time making much money.

‘Ivan I never said that the scriptor was getting 10K USD. He will probably get about 20% of it over the first 3 months’

I know I misread (didn’t have my green tea yet) refer to my post above.

‘It takes about 3 movie rentals to break even.’

How much are you going to be renting your movies for?

‘And I can't guarentee anything, but I would never let any investor down, my name in SL is more inportant then losing 10K usd for investors. Im an SL Lifer, since this is my RL job.’

I or no one else that I am aware of is questioning your integrity or track record. I was just stating my concerns with the limited customer base you could draw from. If you only need 3 rentals per movie to break even well you don’t need much of a market to draw from to be successful. Please don’t take it personally I was just making a few comments on what I thought about renting RL movie in general on SL. Anyway once again good luck.

Cheers







in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Ivan Halfpint ]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 07:44:38 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12721 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Bart Heart ]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 07:26:37 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12719 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845 Lets face it SLCW is working on a deal with MBC, how many people our going to sit down and watch that, when people can watch it in RL. Well someone will, just like people watch RL movies in SL. There is a market out there, we have already tested the market with the BHE residents and the staff at Club Carnage. We have a HUD that you can where so the movie are full screen.
Ivan I never said that the scriptor was getting 10K USD. He will probably get about 20% of it over the first 3 months. We already have the servers running that cost is low. The actual DVD is what cost the money. Land doesn't cost any thing for tier, since I already have 40 sims. And we will be on the SLX with the DVDs and that is where the majority of the sales will come from. It takes about 3 movie rentals to break even. And there is not rights to purchase, we have talked to the MPAA about what we are doing, and as long as we are not giving out the URL or allowing people to download the movie, we fall under the movie rental business.
And I can't guarentee anything, but I would never let any investor down, my name in SL is more inportant then losing 10K usd for investors. Im an SL Lifer, since this is my RL job. My past should speak for itself, Anyone that had stock in BHE when we did the buy back, doubled there money. VHI has paid 22% of the IPO price in dividneds since we IPO'd in July 07, and VHI is up to 26L$ per share, with liquity.

Regards,
Bart Heart

in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Bart Heart ]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 07:21:00 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12718 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
1. is a license being used for this public performance?

2. is illegal decryption software or have the legal key software for decrypting DVDs been obtained in order to store on servers?

in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Investor Nitely ]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 06:55:54 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12715 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
*Going back to work and shutting up now* lol



in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Ivan Halfpint ]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 06:35:03 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12713 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
Your market is very limited. Second life has really stopped growing so the overall potential market is stagnant. The amount of people who actually watch TV in SL is a small percentage of total residents. The amount of people willing to watch RL content in SL instead of watching it on their real world big screen surround sound is even more limited. Finally people who will actually pay for this when there is lots of content for free is going to be difficult.

Lets face it the only people who will be willing to sit through a 2 hour full feature movie in SL are the hardcore's. Most people come to SL to socialize and get away from RL – I’m assuming that most people if they wanted to watch a movie would go to blockbuster and shell out a few bucks for a dvd or download it for free.

The second concern I have is paying 10,000 USD for a scripter? That’s insane - how many movies will you have to rent to recover those costs? Also to purchase the movie rights in RL will cost significant USD plus there are servers costs to store the movie etc....

Don’t get me wrong I think it’s a neat idea – but with costs like your talking about not even close to being feasible. Sportsbets likes it though – maybe he will finance you entire project himself with money he has made betting on the snail races :P

In any case good luck – don’t wanna seem like a contrarian but the last 5 month in SL financial markets have made me that way.

Cheers,

Ivan





in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Ivan Halfpint ]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 06:31:43 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12712 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Servme Nakamura ]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 05:20:44 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12708 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Ivan Halfpint ]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 05:11:34 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12706 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
And Thanks Bo for giving me the oppertunity to answer questions about the IPO here.

Regards
Bart Heart

in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Bart Heart ]]> Mon, 05 May 2008 16:40:13 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12686 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
Regarding Bit Torrent, it's legit and millions are still using this downloading service today. There are selected movies/series that cannot be shared, however, more than half of the movies are legit.

iV

in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by iVentures Volitant ]]> Mon, 05 May 2008 16:23:11 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12685 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
The one thing we are still not sure of with copyrights is if we are going to sell the DVD with the movie poster on it or not.

Hopefully this answered your question iV and Sport.

Edit is add below:
These our RL movies not SL movies, although we have made movies in SL.
Downloading movies from Bit Torrent is against the law as far as I am aware of. At no time will anyone renting our movies, will they get the URL or be able to download the movies.
Yes we will be getting about 10K USD, our scriptor is one of the top scriptors in SL has worked with Millions of Us, and slenda.com on there sim and does get paid by the hour. We have signed a contract in RL not to disclose any info on how the scripts work or any of the internal workings of what we are doing. So he will be getting paid about 20% of the IPO money over the first 3 months. Second cost is the actual cost of the movies. We have to buy the movies, to be able to rent them. We can't just go out and rent the movie and RIP it to our servers. Movies are not cheap when they first come out, now old movies we can get from a bulk distributor. That will take about 70% of the IPO money, but will also be an assest of the company. Third is the servers that will hold the movies, once the company starts renting the DVDs part of that money will go to the server fees.

in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Bart Heart ]]> Mon, 05 May 2008 15:34:25 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12683 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
If the IPO completes, you'll be receiving over $10K USD in paid-in-capital. How would the funds be allocated/utilized?

iVentures

in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by iVentures Volitant ]]> Mon, 05 May 2008 14:32:09 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12680 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Bogart Beck ]]> Mon, 05 May 2008 14:25:53 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12678 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
I already know you a STAR, bbo, saw you in "the snail race" riding on the blue one lol

in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Sportsbets Writer ]]> Mon, 05 May 2008 14:00:55 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12677 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845 Who says I'm not already a star Sports? LOL

Bo

in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Bogart Beck ]]> Mon, 05 May 2008 13:47:10 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12676 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Heart%20Business%20District/179/79/40

to watch the demo movies (with my gf sitting on my right leg eating popcorn ;), i have to say they are running very smooth and good quality also.
Do the potential customers have to buy the "movie poster" or just pay the rent for the movies for an unlimited use?

in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Sportsbets Writer ]]> Mon, 05 May 2008 13:25:58 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12675 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
Cheers

Ivan

in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Ivan Halfpint ]]> Mon, 05 May 2008 13:17:40 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12673 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
I do have a question. You wrote:

"I know the biggest question we will get is about copyright and licensing. How this works, it is set up to sell the movies in SL, but at no time will the customer receive the URL or the ability to download the movie, so the never own the movie. They are just renting it for an unlimited use. So the answer is that “there are no special licenses or copyright requirements for renting videos for general home use. Note, though, that they are licensed “for home use only”, but you’re renting them “for home use only” from your PC. Now if someone turns around and shows that video to a large group, they have violated copyright law, but we haven’t (unless, of course, we knowingly rented it to them for that purpose, in which case there might be a problem). Ultimately, though, it’s up to them to get the license, not us.”

You are right, my concern lies with the use of copyrighted material. My question is, if you are distributing the content to individuals for home viewing, aren't you obligated to pay royalties for the distribution en masse at profit to your viewers, or is the person at the other end of the URL responsible for royalty to the studios? Can you give me a better idea of how this works?

in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Ashleigh Wade ]]> Mon, 05 May 2008 13:14:19 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12671 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845 Bart,

NP posting here... be our guest.

Bo Beck.

in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Bogart Beck ]]> Mon, 05 May 2008 13:09:51 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12670 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
Thanks
Bart Heart CEO
Valentine Heart Inc.

in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Bart Heart ]]> Mon, 05 May 2008 11:58:19 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12669 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
iV

in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by iVentures Volitant ]]> Mon, 05 May 2008 08:05:20 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12660 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845
IPO- Shares: 10.000

Dividends: weekly

http://www.vstex.net/companies/DVD





in topic Bart Heart Entertainment (BHE Films) (DVD) - IPO (Vste by Sportsbets Writer ]]> Sun, 04 May 2008 17:32:06 -0700 http://slcapex.com/forums/topic/general/1845/12649