Short essay about what an idea is worth. The right idea could be worth $361 million per person – or nothing.
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Network Solutions bought for $20 million, sold for $800 million three years later
Is it possible for the medium sized guys to make money? You bet. Network Solutions, bought for $20 million in 2003, was just sold for $800 million three years later. And amazingly enough, this deal was done by a Persian – Iranian American Jahm Najafi. So do the Iranians know how to play a poker […]
Should Software Be Donation Only | Minimum Donation Levels
Philip Dow’s Journler Philip Dow is the developer of the very well received Mac PIM (personal information manager) Journler about donationware. His application Journler had an open donation policy for personal use. Contribute whatever you like. A single commercial use license was/is $25. Phil is going full-time as a developer now and is starting to […]
Why aren’t Ad Agencies buying More Search Companies
Some gentlemen search colleagues are thunderstruck by the acquisition of 24/7 Real Media by advertising holding company WPP for $649 million (a tidy sum it is – congratulations 24/7 – although I’ve always hated your technology). Raycam wonders why more ad agencies aren’t snapping up the smaller search houses. It’s simple. All the assets go […]
Social Web, Online Communities and the shift in Search
Manifestations of online communities: foums social bookmarking sit Ask Enquiro » Blog Archive » Business to Business (B2B) Marketers Need to Actively Participate in Online Communities: How Can B2B Marketers Actively Participate in Online Communities?… Vox – Online community where you can share information about your products, solutions and services through blog posts, audio, video and more.
Google algorithms creating spam
A very interesting discussion on Aaron Wall’s SEOBook about whether Google is contributing to web spam. The best part is in the comments (sorry Aaron!) where two readers to the numbers on AdWords for relatively high priced PPC words. Basically they just don’t add up.
Pricing a Project: Hourly Billing versus Flat Fee
Pricing a Project | Blue Flavor: One benefits to hourly billing is the client is responsible for increases of scope, protecting the vendor and the customer…. Over our careers in the web we’ve seen requirements invariably shift, and often for good reason, to produce a better, more people-centered end product.
Chaotic Business versus the E-Myth
What do Trizle and E-Myth recommend to beginning entrepreneurs? Read how opposing business advisors approach the mindset of a starting company.
Licensing Photos
Sometimes a website can be setup to help one party and instead help another. For one of my websites, I need to license some photos. I haven’t had the right language for the contract. I looked at the contracts from the stock agencies but they were way too elaborate. I tried to find a local […]
Is there going to be a real estate crash?
I ran across the most amazing niche website yesterday – dedicated to the possibility of a crash in house prices in the UK…. His forecast for house prices is for “a 30 to 40 per cent fall over the next three to four years”, a fall he describes as “a healthy correction”.
Foiling Email Harvesters and Coping with Spam
A very interesting discussion at Slashdot earlier this month about how to stop spam. There were many suggestions involving images with obscured characters, but that’s just not acceptable for business. A lot of these suggestions are fine for personal sites; but if you’re actually in business they aren’t practical.We use Javascript. You don’t want to […]
A Short History of Free Proposals
Veerle Pieters lashed out recently at freeloader clients. The client in question would be a big client (city website in Belgium). That particular city wasn’t content with a design mockup alone oh no they even had the audacity to state that the design revisions to that mockup had to be free too. You only got […]
Eastern European Success Stories for the Taking
Learn more about successful projects by emerging Czech companies taking over the market.
Foliovision Principles
To make the web work for you. What do we mean by that? Your website will work to expand and support your business, seamlessly.
