Hi Sleazy,
thanks for your questions. Here we go:
1. I started somewhere in '98 or something I gues. Dennis (who used to work for Payserve, Club17, as their marketing guy), a long time friend asked me to come work for them. I just started doing some html and photoshopping for a previous job and people with those skills were hard to find. (at that time ;-)
After 3 years I decided I could better start working for myself, and i started with building galleries, submitting them and some SE doorways stuff.
I got lucky really fast because I was able to buy Worldsex together with my business partner Richard. We bought it, changed a few things (we let Mark and Parney from
www.cybercatinc.com handle the advertising for instance, which they still do ;-) added some more banner spots, rotated them and sold galleries and we made money ;-) Hurray!
Because we wanted to grow, we hired Dennis, who still works for me and does an excellent job. Thanks for all the help Dennis, can't do it without you!
We've bought al4a.com in May 2004, which we changed a bit too, got rid of some trades, got rid of most hosted galleries and fortunately al4a is doing well, better then we hoped to be honest.
Besides the tgp business we're doing a lot of sms billing, chat and subscriptions, now mostly in the Netherlands and Belgium, but we expect to start with Australia and some other countries in 1 month. We believe the sms business is going to be a very good alternative for billing and additional income sources for pay- and freesites.
I think this pretty much covers question 1 ;-)