Posts Tagged with ‘business-model’

I think everyone has been thinking for a while now about how the entire internet industry is flawed and how it will face even more serious problems in the future unless something is changed in terms of how businesses make money here. Recently every time a new startup sends me a pitch about their new product, I’ve been stubbornly asking them about exactly how they were planning to make money.
The reason for focusing on the financial side of things is [...]

It looks like the world financial crisis is providing us tons of new materials to cover with companies inventing new and more promising ways to monetize their services looking for additional revenue sources. The latest examples included an interesting idea by Calgoo to monetize online calendars via the so-called in-calendar marketing and Ma.gnolia trying to charge users for the social bookmarking service. Today it is LiveJournal with an interesting new idea that will probably change the way we think about [...]

There’s no doubt that the economic crisis we are now in now will damage some industries and change others. And of course internet will be one of the industries affected. I think it is already obvious that if there is one thing that needs to be changed and will probably change, it is the way new products are launched hoping to achieve popularity first and figure out how to monetize all the users at a later date.
Now that investors will [...]

Of course the unfavorable economic environment will hardly let us see dozens of new amazing startups launched on a daily basis in the nearest few months. But we will be sure to still see startups launched that will have a solid business model which means a specific customer base along with some value to provide these customers with for a fee.
I have already mentioned that I think porn will be one of the things people will hardly stop to consume [...]

Today we are witnessing launch of ZoomProspector, a very interesting and promising startup targeted at enterprise customers. The idea behind the service is to help companies survive the current economic turmoil by providing them with vital information that can either make or break their businesses. In particular, the focus of the startup is where a business should be located to achieve maximum performance efficiency.
So whenever a company is looking to start, expand or relocate a business, ZoomProspector is here to [...]

Yesterday we saw the first niche website launched by Twitter - Twitter E08 focused on presidential election campaign in the US. The website works by simply filtering twitter messages (tweets) from all users by certain keywords and aggregate these messages into one page. The site is updated with new topical messages in real time.
In addition to that, users can send their own messages right from the site and these messages will be sent to their Twitter timeline as well. Besides, [...]

I am not really all that superstitious - maybe not superstitious at all instead but today when I saw the International Herald Tribune article titled “President George W. Bush speech to the nation on the economic crisis” under the number 666 in my Google Reader I could not help but feel more than a little worried about it.
It was not actually about the apocalyptic coincidence of the title and the number - instead it was about the real-life situation and [...]

Today we hear rumors that eBay is planning to sell StumbleUpon websites discovery tool after acquiring it for $75 million last May. And people immediately began speculating if eBay we only see the beginning of eBay selling some non-core assets to focus on the main line of business facing the possible huge 10% rumored layoffs. The next candidate for sale suggested is obviously Skype since it is in a very similar position in relation to eBay’s main business as StumbleUpon [...]

I am still trying to get out some posts out with my impressions of the startups that we have seen launched early this week at TechCrunch 50 and DEMOfall. I have not attended any of the two events but that gave me certain freedom of tracking what was going on and reading everything other bloggers and journalists had to say.
And it is very difficult to express my surprise when I saw Yammer announced as a winner of TC 50. I [...]