I think that Mahalo is going to be used for consulting on a regular basis, and that there will be a lot of companies taking advantage of it, for various reasons. The user base here is very good, and as more people recognize the value in that, I think more business will shift from professional consultants into Mahalo, when appropriate. This web site offers a reasonable alternative for industry.

The amount of tips will always influence the quality of the answers, so there is definitely an incentive to offer large tips for certain questions, and larger tips will impact the quality of the responses, as people put more time and more effort into their answers.

I definitely think it is the start of something big. It's enabling the community to get involved directly with one another, and that is going to be profitable for everyone, as far as information and money. We all benefit from this
resource. This is a really exciting project. I'm very grateful to those behind it, Jason, and the rest of the team. I think this will truly be a revolutionary way to share ideas, and perform research.

I watched an interview Jason did where he talked about content, and how across the industry it seemed everyone was getting paid, except the people who provided the content. Somehow we all were more than happy to generate revenue with our information, our pictures, our designs, our videos, our music, in exchange for free hosting. These large companies capitalized on this fact, and made fortunes off of it's user base, through advertising, using their content. Mahalo has shown how unfair that system truly was, and has given us all an opportunity to contribute, and an incentive to do so to the best of our ability. It's success is our success.

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