Again, Fanocks, your ideas are good in theory, but that doesn't mean they'll work in the real world as simply and easily as you believe...if you're so convinced that the above will work, please prove me wrong. In fact, shoot me a PM and I'm happy to provide you as much competitive intelligence and insight on the broadcast TV industry as you'd like. Then you can go out and give this a try and see if it's as easy as you think...

But unless you actually try it, please stop telling everyone how easy it is. Because that's just a naive statement that is clearly based on very simplistic understanding of the business dynamics of this market space. In general, in the real world, it's not as common as you think for big companies to buy out competitors for large sums of money; it's much more common that big companies destroy their competitors or pay them small sums of money to go away.

You use the example of Microsoft buying lots of little companies. I have an assignment for you -- for every company you can think of that MS has bought, can you name 10 (or 50?) companies in the same market segment that MS didn't buy but have since gone out of business because they couldn't compete? If you know the market spaces half decently, you should be able to. Oh, and for all the companies that MS has bought out, how many do you think were companies started by former MS employees? I think you'd be very surprised at high how the percentage is...because these types of buy-outs are (in my experience) more related to *who you know* than how much of a threat you are.

Not saying it can't be done, but certainly not anywhere near as quick and easy as you think...

You've written a lot of posts about how to easily make lots of money, how to easily buy mansions and multi-billion dollar businesses, etc. If it's so easy, why haven't you done it yet? Where is the mansion you said you were going to buy last year? Where are the billion-dollar companies that you have performed leveraged buy-outs of, or you have forced to pay you off because you're such a business threat.

Don't get me wrong, again, I'm not saying these things can't be done (they're done everyday), but when reading your posts, it's like reading a real estate guru website -- lots of *potentially* good idea without any real meat behind them.

I'd rather hear more about your *real life* experiences than about your fantasy ideas that sound like they were sound-bites from my MBA classes (but without the whole lecture for context).