BizAg is a vertical search engine startup for businesses up for sale. There are numerous business sites on the web like bizbuysell and businessforsale that allows users to search for businesses based on category and location, but none have attacked the business model from a search engine stand point.
BizAg aggregates all the sale listings [...]

This is the 3rd of 4 installments on the Doba case study as a viable revenue stream for entrepreneurs. (See part I and part II here) My full analysis will be in part 4. So far eight of my heavily researched products have not even obtained bids on Ebay say nothing about being sold. I [...]

Crowd sourcing startup Cambrian House is headed to the deadpool. The company had a bold concept of letting web users submit ideas and rally around the viable ones. The crowd would get a piece of profits as the idea turned into startup success. A significant problem the business ran into was the following:
A [...]

CBS has acquired San Fransisco based CNET for $.1.8 billion. CNET has numerous web properties and enormous traffic from the likes of Gamespot,TV.com, news.com and mp3.com. According to Forbes “The deal values CNET at a 44.6% premium to Wednesday’s closing price of $7.95. CBS said that the deal would catapult it into the ranks of [...]

Scoutle a new dutch startup launched earlier this month with an interesting take on how to make automated social networking connections for websites and bloggers. In their words:
Your Scout is your personal webcrawler. He will walk over the Internet and will meet other Scouts. To help your Scout walk, give him some space so [...]

Google’s Friend connect has launched and gives web site owners the ability to add social features (within an iframe) to their existing websites. The code is a a cut and paste scenario and is not much more difficult then pasting adsense code.

I have to hand it to Google, they continue to create feature rich [...]

About mid-week I received a phone call from a Doba representative. He was certainly a nice enough gentleman the appropriate balance of sales and telemarketing. Being the qualified “warm” lead that I am, you could tell he was reading the Doba sales script and inserting my first name every other 100 words to sound [...]

For the last ten years I had the equivalent of cell phone ADHD until I experienced the Blackberry line of products (Blackberry 8703 in particular). Blackberry’s newest product announcement “Bold” has all the bells and whistles a modern day smart phone should have coupled with the reliability and functionality of the Blackberry name. A [...]

When I watched Take-Two interactive bounce 44% in one day on the Grand Theft Auto news, I remember thinking how difficult a nose-bleed valuation like that would be sustainable. Apparently not so difficult, according to NYTimes, 3.6 million units were sold on the first day and $500 million in sales in the first week for [...]