I have started a blog regarding my business plans for subscription patrol and restitution. Gil Guillory's blog on Subscription Patrol and Restitution
These are the pre-launch musts: Balance of site visits to other security companies, make notes. Find key employees or co-venturers -- patrol manager, salesman, dispatcher, investigator. These four competencies could come in fewer than four people, of course. The main problem here is timing. It would be great to identify these people right away, and
I generally plan my work for the year on a March-to-March cycle, since my papers are major deliverables of my work, and they are presented at conferences in March. Next projects: Site visit to 1 patrol company. Write a paper on it (won't be published -- I don't publish everything). I'd like to visit at least 3 before launching, but each
There are two papers that I'm working on: 1. A Call for Victim-Offender Mediation Casebooks. This paper, which I am co-authoring with Greg Rome and Daniel Coleman, looks at the current and historical methods used to solve the general problem of arbitrating terms -- usually monetary damages -- to offenders. Our solution in the modern context is the
I maintain a web archive of academic-style papers and short articles in the evolution of the SPR business model here (also accessible in the sidebar of this blog). But, in a nutshell, this is what I know and don't know: What is proposed is legal, but I'll have to co-venture with someone with 3 years' security experience to get the license
Because I am known in certain circles as that guy who is planning to start a libertarian-ideology-inspired subscription patrol and restitution company, the question I am often met with is: when are you going to start the business? The point of this blog will be to chronicle the steps I think I need to take in order to launch it successfully. The reason