Archive for February 2nd, 2006
David Hardy: Glenn Reynold’s book, An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths, was up to #38 on Amazon for a time (even tho it won’t be released for another few weeks), and has been getting excellent reviews. The theme is essentially that [...]
Wired: Financial bubbles get a bum rap. People focus on the sob stories (think of the grandmothers who invested in Pets.com) and the tales of financial chicanery (think WorldCom). But bubbles – those sudden, excessive, and seemingly irrational investment stampedes – aren’t all bad. Sure, they tend to follow a painful cycle of boom, bust, [...]
VCs’ Tips for Winning The Support of Investors
Ian Patrick Sobieski, managing director at Band of Angels, in Startup Journal: When raising money clear and well thought out communication with investors is critical. Good communication involves a careful balance between being sure the reader or listener is informed and intrigued, but not so much that they become confused and miss the salient point. [...]
Internet Business Mastery Podcast
Episode #8 of the Internet Business Mastery podcast is online.
Advertisers Say Google Ads Work Best
Marketing Vox: Most marketers – 71 percent – think Google search ads are effective, compared with 62 percent saying so about Yahoo and 49 percent about MSN, reports MediaPost, citing a survey by Outsell. Advertisers who thought Google performed best were the ones with the smallest marketing budgets: Those who said Google ads were “extremely” [...]
