15 points to reveal the “Launching a Startup is easy” myth. (2/15) – Make money to be able to make more money
July 26 I wrote the first part of a series of posts that will reveal that saying “launching a startup is easy” is just a myth. Some media covered this posts and I was extremely happy to see that my site’s monthly bandwidth exceed within 48 hours. Today let me tell you about another key [...]
It is not the money spent on marketing that makes a startup successful
After weeks without writing any posts I have decided to share with you some ideas about startups that might be insightful especially to those of you who are planning to launch the fifth youtube-like site.
1. there is no clear correlation between investments in marketing and long term website profitability
The idea behind it, is that in [...]
Startup failure despite media coverage and good ideas. A story to keep in mind.
Last year I have heard thousands of people saying we have got the new big thing on the net. What I said in October 2006 was: “guys calm down, it’s not gonna last forever”. A year later I am here to say that I was right, AlumWire is completely down.
What makes me really laugh [...]
Big mistake launching a startup: make users pay for beta
A beta version is not something you should charge money for. What I found extremely surprising is that more and more companies are making users pay to use versions of their products that are not working perfectly.
One of them is Powerset, a piece of a search engine that is said to be willing to replace [...]
SuTree – the ultimate tree of knowledge
SuTree is a social bookmarking service that lets users bookmark and organize free video lessons, video tutorials, video ‘how to’ guides and DIY from all over the web. One can think of it as the Digg of e-learning. Launched in mid-March, SuTree has already indexed more than 5,000 video lessons.
The principles behind SuTree are simple:
1. [...]
You are not making money with affiliate programs… do u know why?
I have read a lot of articles on this subject and I want to share some ideas with you… there are basically 10 reasons You are not making money with affiliate programs…
1. Choosing the wrong affiliate
You really need to choose the right one. It doesn’t make any sense to add amazon to a website about [...]
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