18,000th Post!

By on November 1, 2010 in Administrivia / Featured


On November 13, 2001, I started this humble website with a simple purpose, to find and highlight business opportunities that weren’t junk. Today marks the 18,000 post and begins to countdown to our 9th anniversary on November 13th.

To say that I couldn’t have done this without the support of my readers is a cliche, but it is absolutely true. Without all of you, I would have given up on this a long, long time ago.

The site also wouldn’t be where it it today without Rich Whittle and Angela Shupe. Rich has been with me since 2006 and Angela from 2007. Both of them have had an enormous impact on the growth and development of the site in the last few years.

Over the next two weeks we’ll be pointing out some of our favorite posts from the past, telling stories of great consequence in the development of the site and launching some exciting new services and features.

Thank you for reading,

Dane Carlson


Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,203 posts to the site.

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  • http://www.business-opportunities.biz Dane Carlson

    In the original version of this post I said that this was our 19,000th post, not our 18,000th. Oops.

    I think that this might have been my 19,000th error! :)

  • http://wahm.business-opportunities.biz Angela Shupe

    That’s quite a milestone! I’ve definitely enjoyed my time here. Thanks for the kind words in your post. :-) Now to look forward to many, many thousands more.

  • Hassan Ragab

    Hello Dane, and happy new year for my favorite blog :)
    I’m really very interested in your blog and the ideas you present here. I hope we can be friends and i hope i can help you in your blog.

  • http://www.total-tech.blogspot.com Trishan

    Hi Dane. It’s a dream for any blogger to last so long (9 years is amazing) and have written 18,000 posts that get regular feedback from readers. Keep it up!

  • http://usanet.in The New

    Hello i love your blog!

  • Bruce

    Dane… What would you consider to be your TOP 10 start-up business ideas, that you have seen / come across / witnessed etc. since you started your website in 2001?

  • http://newcastleiphone.com Darren Osborne

    Well done Dane soon it will be 100,000 :-)

  • http://www.business-opportunities.biz Dane Carlson

    Thanks Darren!

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