Archive for February 9th, 2006
Business Opportunities Weblog Network Grows By Two
I’m excited to announce the launch of two new blogs in the BOW network: eBay Business Opportunities and Businesses Opportunities Links. The eBay one is written by Ty Tribble, who amongst his other occupations, including writing the MLM Business Opportunities Blog, is an eBay Silver Powerseller and had his eBay business featured in the February [...]
This week’s Carnival of Entrepreneurship is up at Anita Campbell’s Small Business Trends.
Collecting Your Money: Read the Signs
Barry Moltz: Customers that do not pay their bills are not Customers: They are collection problems.
Design Is The New Entrepreneurship
Adventures in Capitalism: In this increasingly unbundled world, design is the new entrepreneurship. Specifically, in the old days, entrepreneurship depended on building a large team and infrastructure to handle manufacturing, operations, and sales. Today, especially with Internet businesses, these functions can all be outsourced, leaving design as the core competency of the entrepreneur.
VC Says Startup CEOs Too Often Outstay Their Welcome VC Pascal Levensohn, Managing Director of San Francisco-based VC firm Levensohn Venture Partners, has published a white paper with the headline “Warning Signs for Venture-Backed CEO Replacement Often Ignored.” (tags: vc ceo bizopblog) Accurate Revenue Forecasting = Inaccurate revenue forecasts + wasted time The article makes [...]
Forbes: See if you can work this out. A press release appears today claiming Fort Lauderdale based 4Yacht has sold a 405-foot steel megayacht on eBay, believed to be the most expensive item ever sold on the Internet auction site. In fact, the as-yet-unbuilt yacht is so big, it’s actually a “Gigayacht”, the press release [...]
Fast Company: NextWorth, an eBay store, is making a big move in used iPods. They will buy your iPod off of you to sell on eBay. While you may make more auctioning it yourself, for those people who do not have the time nor want to take the trouble it may be a great alternative. [...]
Fast Company: In 2001, Ippolito created Rent A Coder with the idea of helping his supplicants find qualified software developers to take on their little jobs. In just over three years, the site–a sort of eBay for software projects–has exploded, attracting a cumulative 45,000 buyers who’ve posted projects and 121,000 coders around the globe offering [...]
thirdsquare: Itâs quite obvious now that eBay is feeling pressure coming from the headquarters of Google. Last May Google announced that they themselves are going to come out with an online payment system such as eBay owned PayPal. Within moments of learning about it, PayPal president Jeff Jordan has started to monitor any talks and [...]
Jennifer Inc.: On CNNâs Situation Room, furry spokesmodel Wolf âSo Blackâ? Blitzer handed off to cranky grandpa Jack Cafferty for his report on programs designed to pay drug addicts to stay clean. Cafferty read viewersâ emails on the topic. One budding comic wrote, âI am addicted to chili dogs and theyâre making me fat. You [...]
Entrepreneurs See Potential in Podcasting
Startup Journal: In late 2004, J. Craig Williams discovered a marketing tool that helped bring his small law firm international attention: podcasting. With a few simple pieces of hardware and software, he could create a brief daily radio show — a “podcast” — and anyone with access to the Web could listen. So he bought [...]
