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by John Adams on December 14, 2009
On January 7, 2010, Ultra Light Startups is hosting an expert panel on PR, Branding, and Buzz. After six months of covering and blogging about the various events put on by Ultra Light Startups, I’m now pleased to actively participate and moderate the first Entrepreneur’s Forum of the upcoming new year. Our panel of experts [...]
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by Graham Lawlor on February 25, 2009
CommandShift3 – It’s like Hot or Not for web design. Website built by members of New York’s Jelly coworking community, based on conversations at coworking events.
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by Graham Lawlor on February 18, 2009
CardPricer Finds There Is More Money Selling Baseball Card Data Than Selling Baseball Cards. CardPricer is the Reuters/Bloomberg of baseball cards. Seems to prove selling data as a revenue model really can work…
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by Graham Lawlor on February 2, 2009
Big Websites Start Small. Great article on how Digg, Amazon, and Twitter used to look like when they were initially launched.
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by Graham Lawlor on January 4, 2009
Myopenbar.com is a website that lists where drinks are free, according to this New York Times article. It was founded in 2005 by two friends and had over 30,000 subscribers in six cities (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami and Honolulu) by the end of 2008. The site has 30 employes and is [...]
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by Graham Lawlor on December 20, 2008
HotOrNot is a photo rating website founded in 2000 by two Berkley undergrads. It was acquired by Avid Life Media in February 2008 for a reported $20 million. Quantcast Compete
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by Graham Lawlor on December 20, 2008
PlentyOfFish is a free internet dating site. The New York Times says the owner, Marcus Frind, works 10 hours per week and earns over $10 million per year on the site. The Wall Street Journal gives similar numbers and adds that the site is now the busiest dating site in the U.S. Headquarters: Vancouver, CA [...]
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by Graham Lawlor on December 16, 2008
Smule is a California based company, founded in 2008 that makes iPhone applications. Its biggest hit is called Ocarina, a virtual musical wind instrument (video). As of December 2008 the application has been downloaded 400,000 times and Smule is set to become a $1 million revenue company in its first year. This article in Newsweek [...]
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by Graham Lawlor on December 14, 2008
Ticketstumbler is a Boston-based two-person startup that functions as “a secondary ticket market search engine and comparison website. We search thousands of ticket listings from hundreds of brokers and ticket exchanges across the internet and present the information in an easy to view and use format. TicketStumbler allows simple ticket comparison, enabling you to find [...]
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by Graham Lawlor on December 14, 2008
This NY Times article describes the small but significant number of independent content producers on YouTube who make significant money. Apparently 6-figure annual incomes are not uncommon with the right content, audience, and advertising mix. The same NY Times article is reviewed by Denis Hancock in this article on the Wikinomics blog.
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