[EN] Dear ipernauts,
No news from us since a long time. Now we can give you the reason: we are currently focused on a funds raising process to provide ipernity with more means, to increase its development and to make your favorite site one of tomorrow's leading Web services.
Rather than looking for venture capital, we decided to open up ipernity's share capital to French wealth taxpayers. Indeed, a new French law (named TEPA) allows French wealth taxpayers (ISF) to deduct up to 75% of their investment in small-and-medium sized companies from their total wealth tax payment.
What a great idea ;-)
Subscription (reserved for French wealth taxpayers only) is now open and will close by mid-June 2009.
In case of success, we plan to list ipernity on the NYSE-Euronext-Paris Free Market by July 2009. It will offer liquidity to shareholders and will contribute to the company's reputation.
Of course, we'll keep you informed about the results.
Crossing our fingers,
Greets from the French Riviera.
Team ipernity
[FR] Chers ipernautes,
Il y a deux ans, ipernity ouvrait grand ses portes avec le dessein d'accueillir durablement le patrimoine numérique (photos, écrits, vidéos…) de tout-un-chacun.
Ces deux années nous ont permis de franchir avec succès une première étape, couronnée par la nomination de « meilleur site de partage » aux Open Web Awards 2008, grâce à vos nombreux votes.
ipernity aborde aujourd’hui un nouveau challenge : celui de lever des fonds pour accélérer son développement et se hisser aux premiers rangs des services internet.
Pour cela, nous avons mis en place un montage original, dans le cadre de la loi TEPA, permettant aux contribuables français assujettis à l’Impôt de Solidarité sur la Fortune de défiscaliser jusqu’à 75% de leur impôt en investissant dans ipernity. Nous venons de lancer une souscription qui leur est réservée et qui sera close le 15 juin prochain.
La levée de fonds sera suivie d’une inscription en bourse sur le Marché Libre de NYSE-Euronext-Paris, apportant ainsi aux investisseurs toute transparence et une facilité de liquidité à terme.
Voici donc une opportunité, pour ceux qui paient de l’ISF parmi votre entourage, de contribuer directement à l’essor économique d’une entreprise innovante et d’œuvrer pour l’émergence d’un concept noble : le patrimoine numérique.
Nous disposons d’une notice d’information et d’une analyse financière réalisée par Arkéon Finance, la société de bourse en charge de l’opération. Nous les adresserons sur demande aux personnes intéressées. Pour nous contacter, c'est par ici.
Merci par avance de relayer cette information et de concourir ainsi au succès d’ipernity.
Bien cordialement,
Team ipernity
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Sophie@ipernitypro says:
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Crescent says:
Interested to read about your capital and your plans with the stock market. I have 2 things to say
1. Photographers who accrue high levels of views, favourites, etc. should receive payment from Ipernity. Even if it is only those who are explored.
2. Please be aware that having others invest in your company may require it to alter radically. I hope that you maintain the freedom and relaxed attitude that Ipernity currently encourages. Many members have come from Flickr, who suffer from heavy and, often inappropriate levels of censorship. The artistry of members is as important as the hits that their art/photography accrues. A more business-like approach could sacrifice artistic values for monetary values. It would be a shame to see Ipernity become a place that encourages excessive nudity and artistic simplicity, just for the sake of hits and the hope that the photographer will be famous!
Good Luck
Simon
Team ipernitypro replies:
2. After raising funds, we'll stay independent, owning more than 3/4 of the share capital. No reason of changing our vision.
Pandarinepro replies:
Frankly, I was shocked when I browsed the explore pages today, without being logged in, and without adblock turned on. I almost couldn't believe what I saw.
Here in the USA we see flickering, glimmering animated gifs above and below those awesome pictures (the very best of what ipernity has to offer!), and in Germany, they see ads who are completely misspelled, but at least not as ugly as the ones I see.
Yes, I agree you need to raise money, and the pro memberships don't cover the needs, but there are other ads than those - Google word ads for instance, like other photo-websites use them, because they don't take away anything of the beauty we are used to see on the front page.
Like I said, I wish you good luck in raising money, and I sure hope ipernity will be around for a long time to come! But lately I'm a bit scared of the path ipernity is taking ...
Pandarinepro replies:
The pages look MUCH better now, and the fast reaction is another example of the excellent customer service. I have never before experienced this kind of personal response and friendliness as here. Keep on rocking, Team ipernity! :-)
Danypro says:
Be Blog A Lula says:
Bon, malheureusement je ne suis pas assujettie à l’Impôt de Solidarité sur la Fortune, mais, ça peut se trouver !
Adrienpro says:
Cela dit, je suis bien d'accord avec le point 2. de Simon.
J'espère qu'Ipernity ne changera pas trop ;-)
Pandarinepro says:
And incidentally, here are some more thoughts about ipernity.
By the way, I only found these important ipernity news by accident, when I read my latest network report in the mail. Unfortunately, the new network pages make it next to impossible to stay updated with the stuff we care about the most.
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Pandarinepro replies:
Well, I am not quite ready yet to trade kingdoms again, but there's a lot of truth in your words ...
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Roberto Ballerini - travelingpro says:
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Coming from team blog (?)
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Merodemapro says:
Good luck.
Sylvain Courant says:
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Crescent says:
Simon
larcheo says:
Quality +Quality = Great success!
Hurry up Ipernity...
Rrrolfpro says:
[EN] A pity that the texts are no longer in the different languages to be translated ... Google is also, unfortunately, rarely a real help.
[FR] Dommage que les textes ne sont plus ici dans les différentes langues sont traduits ... Google est, malheureusement, rarement une bonne aide.
Rrrolf edited this comment 7 months ago.