Just in time for the Backup Business I discussed earlier, LaCie today announced a 1.6 terabyte external hard drive for only $1,199! 1.6 terabytes is 1,677,721.6 megabytes, so it’s only $0.00071 per megabyte. Wow!
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Matthew Linderman on Signal vs. Noise: “Reminds me of some advice Chris Matthews gives in his book Hardball that goes something like this: When you’ve got bad news, get it all out at once…when it’s good news, drag it out for as long as possible.”
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Dan Sherman wrote today about getting into the software backup business. As more information is trusted to home computers, especially computers running Windows and Internet Explorer, it really is only a matter of time before they many people experience their first major computer crash and lose everything. Dan’s idea is to start a service where
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A company called MovieBankUSA is rolling out a high-tech DVD and VHS tape video rental vending machine. Houston’s News 24 has the story and a video: “It has been in business over ten years now in Europe and it has completely changed the way people rent the movies,” Stephane de Laforcade says. “It’s so convenient.
Venture Blog: I love fanatics. Fanatics make first class entrepreneurs. As long as I have been working with startups, I have seen the power of fanaticism in action. Entrepreneurs who go to sleep thinking about their companies, wake up thinking about their companies, and often times dream about their companies in the hours in between,
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Business Pundit: “Taxes could kill my business. I doubt that will happen, but it is an outside possibility. We have yet to turn a profit, but have paid more in taxes than we have for anything else except labor. I knew before I started this that taxes on businesses made it tough, but experiencing it
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Entrepreneur: “Market research, then, can prove invaluable in determining your idea’s potential. You can gather information from industry associations, Web searches, periodicals, federal and state agencies, and so forth. A trip to the library or a few hours online can set you on your way to really understanding your market. Your aim is to gain
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Men’s underwear traditionally costs very little, whereas women’s bras can be much more expensive. What if you could make bras out of underwear? How’s that for a business opportunity?
Brand Autopsy: Is your dream job to be a vintner? Or a fishing guide? A cattle rancher? How about a chocolatier? Sure, you may be a cubicle monkey today, but given an opportunity to have some on-the-job-experience you may be ready to ditch your dreary job for your dream job. Vocation Vacations is in the
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This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at The Outsourcing Weblog.
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