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04.30.08Google to Launch Next Gen Blog Advertising Network?
Business ModelsI’m sure such an announcement is imminent within the next year or two. Sure Google has Adwords and Adsense, but that's nothing compared to what they'll be ultimately be able to do. Anyone who has played around with the Trends feature in Google Reader knows what I'm talking about. As an RSS reader, Google Reader has an enormous portion of the market – and it’s growing. For example, at last check 38% of Andy Beard’s traffic was via Google Reader. For LeveragingIdeas it's more like 55%. As blogs become a more credible and socially accepted means of journalism, traffics to the ...
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01.22.08Business Idea: Amateur Produced Commercials
Business ModelsSeveral months ago an amateur commercial originally created by a student for the iPod touch was picked up by Apple and run in major television spots. I think we are in an age where amateur content is frequently superior (at least in ideation) to stuff professionally produced. In his brilliant Ted Talk from 2007, JJ Abrams (Creator of Lost and Cloverfield) talks about the democratization of media. Specifically, Abrams suggests that whereas he used to tell aspiring writers to “go write” now thanks to advances in technology he can tell aspiring directors to “go make movies.” According to Abrams, innovations ...
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01.21.08Business Idea: Subscribe to Tagged Magazine Articles
Business ModelsDarren Herman has a nice post asking someone to help him start a new website featuring RSS headlines tailored to individual subscribers. Darren’s post reminded me of an idea I had last week... One industry that clearly falls under the long tail effect is the magazine industry. While many magazines make some of their content free available online, for the most part I have stopped subscribing to print magazines because there are few I read cover to cover. Nevertheless, magazines are still proliferating and some B-list mags, like blogs, occasionally have great articles I would love to read. ...
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01.14.08Startup Monetization Strategy: Brand-Claimed Accounts
Business Models, Social MediaThere is a good dialogue taking place on business models started by Chris Anderson. However, one model I see left out is what I call “brand-claimed accounts.” In a recent post on handles and user names I made the point that many startups have begun to attract interest (use) from brands and other organizations who are looking to have presence on new media websites and apps. The reasoning for a brand to want presence on different sites could range from communications and marketing (Twitter) to advertising (Facebook Fan Pages) to Biz Dev (Jobster or LinkedIn) to SEO. While ...
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12.28.07Sam Huleatt’s Beautiful and Bold 2008 Predictions
Business Models, Social MediaIn no particular order: It still looks, feels and tastes like 2007. [Brilliant Post] The domain real-estate business is going to blow up. Thrice this week I heard someone describe a business model involving the purchase of high-octane URLs as key to strategy…twice from startups and once from an investment firm. Tactics are already gaining sophistication and personal real estate is key to social graph identity Web 2.0 upstarts not generating cash ...
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12.22.07Why Banana Republic’s Website Sucks
Business ModelsI have been thinking a lot about how particular demographics use brands as a means for self-actualization and identity. Today I was with my sister at new outdoor fashion mall in Connecticut doing some Holiday shopping. I was marveling at how Banana Republic was filled with attractive young people with charge cards and thinking what a great demographic Banana has in its stores. I began to wonder how Banana appealed to this great demo online, so when I arrived home, I typed in the URL. I was shocked! The website (IMO) is one of the most poorly designed websites for ...
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12.04.07Can’t Add Subscriptions to Google Reader?
Business ModelsUnless I am completely missing something, since Google Reader changed its layout, you cannot add new subscriptions (RSS feeds). Anyone know anything about this? It’s driving me nuts. Zoli – I feel like you might have the answer?
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12.03.07A Whirlwind of General Thoughts
Business Models, My ExperiencesIs It Ever Okay to Pirate Music?: Say I were to pirate music, for example, to rip from Limewire the latest tracks of a musician I just heard playing at a bar. Perhaps his name is Wax Tailor. If I do not pirate the music, I am likely not going to buy his albums. However, by ripping the music (illegally), I come to like it and I tell 10 friends about it. Maybe I play it at a party. Maybe I blog about it. Maybe I attend a concert. Aren’t these outcomes all worth the artist letting me have access ...
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11.01.07Event Robot Takes Conway’s Funding, Changes Name and Strategy
Business Models, Social NetworkingEvent Robot started as a secretive company offering a customizable, white-label social networking platform. The firm, founded by Tim Young had some early successes including building a platform for the Van’s Warped Tour and more recently, Ozzfest 2007. The initial business model included a network customization fee, followed by a revenue share from in-network advertising. Event Robot was originally based in Irvine and is now in San Fran (with a pit stop in Minnesota?) The company largely evaded PR, maintaining one of the more basic websites around. This past summer VentureBeat reported that the company had taken an angel ...
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09.01.07In the day. In the night. Say it right. Say it all: SayNow.
Business ModelsDarren Herman just wrote about SayNow, a startup that raised $7.5M for their Series A. According to Darren, SayNow offers music fans the ’ability to call a pre-determined phone number for their particular band of interest and hear a personalized message and hear a greeting from the band.’ Okay’ Techcrunch reviewed these guys positively in July, stating, ’Sometimes simple systems work the best.’ Still, a $7.5M round is large for such a ’simple’ model especially in comparison to another simple model named Twitter which had a sub $5M round (after already being relatively established). So maybe, like Frengo ...
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