Archive for March 16th, 2006
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Carnival of Entrepreneurship. Unlike the CotC, for instance, this carnival is limited to seven posts. Unfortunately, there were far more than seven submitted and I’ve had the hard dull of picking the seven most relevant, both to the the theme of the Carnival of Entrepreneurship and to this [...]
More on eBay Powerseller Bankruptcy
KETV: A Lincoln man who wrote a book claiming he made more than $8 million a year is filing for bankruptcy for his company. Brandon Dupsky is founder and CEO of Sell2All, which sold consigned items on the Internet. He co-wrote “Insider Secrets of an e-Bay Millionaire.” The Chapter 7 filing did not estimate assets [...]
Ana Rincon: Mpire, a company I’ve mentioned before, is offering a series of free educational tele-courses on eBay topics, including how to source products, avoiding some of the biggest mistakes online sellers make, and how best to utilize an e-commerce site. The ninety-minute courses are free to participants, with pre-registration required at http://www.mpire.com/businessCenter/teleclass.html. The full [...]
Stuntdubl: If you own a website, you should understand how to buy or sell one. Buying and selling is at the basis of any viable business. The web business sure has changed the ways of thinking about business with wild valuation, deals with incredible return, and everything in between. During the first dot com bubble, [...]
70 Podcasting Domains Auctioned at eBay
Webwire: In light of the recent PodcastPickle $1.5 Million podcast domain auction on ebay, others are following suit, listing the second largest podcast .com domain group on eBay for $225,000. Poised to have a following of 10 million by 2010, podcasting is just in its infancy but is growing at an exponential rate. Multiple six [...]
Business Week: Talk to enough family-business owners, and one thing becomes clear very quickly: For those with their own name on the shingle, business and family life are intertwined. Yet with increasing specialization, competition from corporate giants and from outsourcing, family businesses are under more pressure than ever to innovate, find new efficiencies, and improve [...]
Another Top eBay PowerSeller Out of Business
I assure you, this will not be the last high level Powerseller to go out of business. Will this be a wake up call to eBay about fees? AuctionBytes: Top eBay PowerSeller Sell2All Inc. has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. This is the second high-profile PowerSeller to close its eBay business this year. Glacier Bay [...]
This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance is up at Personal Finance Advice.
Brit T. Brown of Beirne Maynard & Parsons, LLP: In reality, litigation is merely one tool used to attain specific goals, which may be achieved more efficiently by other means. It is certainly not uncommon that part of a litigator’s job will include fully analyzing and evaluating a set of circumstances to determine whether they [...]
Microsoft Sues 8 eBay Sellers over Fake Software
Beta News: Microsoft announced Wednesday it had filed lawsuits against eight eBay sellers in an effort to curb counterfeit software sales. The company alleges the sellers auctioned off illegal copies of its software to unsuspecting buyers. The lawsuits were filed against sellers in Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York and Washington.
