Archive for February 11th, 2005
A VC Reponds to Jason Calacanis
Rob Hyndman: A VC responds to Jason Calacanis’ post on why he won’t take VC funds. I quoted a few of Jason Calacanis’s reasons in this post.
Tax Code will Likely Stay in Place
The Entrepreneurial Mind: My assessment from last month that any chance that we will see a major overhaul in our tax system is fading fast looks to be coming true. The NFIB, a major lobbyist for small businesses, unveiled their legislative agenda this week. Their focus on taxes will be on “simplification” and tax reductions–but, [...]
Weblogs Inc. Makes $600 Per Day from Adsense
PaidContent: “Weblogs Inc., described as the largest publisher of professional blogs, was offered as an example of how AdSense benfits online publishers. According to the slide, Weblogs is averaging $600 a day in AdSense revenue and made $45,000 in the first four months; the blogging company added AdSense in late August 2004.” via ProBlogger.
Robert X. Cringely: You may recall that I asked a year ago for venture capitalists, who weren’t at that time funding much of anything, to start spending money if only to jump-start the economy. They didn’t, of course. So why would they now start to fund every deal in sight? That’s simply because their alternative [...]
More Entrepreneurs Need to Hit and Run
Startup Journal: The life expectancy of many smaller companies is growing shorter as today’s fast-moving economy produces opportunities and then almost immediately begins destroying them. That means increasingly entrepreneurs need to quickly enter a market, exploit it as fully as possible, and then be prepared to get out before profit margins become too narrow to [...]
