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George TsiolisGeorge Tsiolis is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School and the Founder of AGORACOM, a second-generation financial community that has successfully eliminated epidemic levels of spam, bashing and profanity that plagued first-generation communities.

AGORACOM accomplished this by rejecting the traditional advertising model, which sacrifices quality for page views. Rather, it created an ASP model for public companies to create a community of shareholders, as well as, a wiki-powered “freemium” model for shareholders of non-clients.

The results have crushed the status quo model for financial discussion forums and significantly disrupting the models of advertising supported encumbents. AGORACOM is generating 7-digit annual revenues and profits from over 85 clients. Most importantly, both clients and members are extremely happy. Currently, approximately 140,000 unique visitors read 10,000,000 + pages of information every month.

George is proud to say he attended the inaugural Mesh Conference as a Web 2.0 newbie, applied valuable lessons learned to his business and returns to share his lessons with others.