In 93 working with a company in LA that was doing phone sex, and we picked up an online content delivery system from Virtual Dreams Inc. In 94 we got a merchant account from First Bank of Beverly Hills, and they gave us a POS machine. People would BBS their card numbers to us and someone would punch them into the machine, and we would BBS back a password. Got out of the business in 96 to run a big call center in Iowa, then moved to Miami in 99 and started with a billing company as online billing had now become automated. The company went down in 02 and I started my own company at that point. Had various partnerships with alternative billing projects, built and sold a Check21 business, and still have my company today. Only about 15% of my revenues are in adult these days, but I still have a ton of friends in this business.
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