Archive for October 2008

Buying a second business

Oct 28th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Business Deals

Buying a second business is an appropriate topic in these tumultuous economic times. The savvy entrepreneur should view the economic downturn as an opportunity to go shopping for future prosperity.
Key components necessary when evaluating a second business play is the following:
* Key Personnel
* Key Customer relationships
* Competitive edge with suppliers / vendors
* Valuation [...]



10 traffic generation tips

Oct 21st, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Uncategorized

The top ten traffic generation tips is one of the more popular requests from readers (actually traffic generation in general, I just chose to make it a top ten). I find this list can be about 10% subjective but will work for 90% of the blogging crowd who wish to drive more traffic. These are [...]



Virtual Economy and Virtual Goods

Oct 20th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: startup trends

The real economy might be in the doldrums, but the virtual economy is never better. Virtual products being bought and sold is nothing new to most of you, especially with the success of Second Life from Linden. Lets put into prospective how virtual products are actually becoming critical mass, Habbo Hotel sold more virtual furniture [...]



Hedge funds controlling the market

Oct 10th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Financial

Do hedge funds control the market?
Selling continues as the market starts to feel more like 1929 than 1987 with the wide spread panic instilled across the global markets. Although the loss of confidence in the financial markets is a component of the sell-off the real culprit may be the financial titans known as hedge funds. [...]



Why did the credit crisis happen

Oct 9th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Real Estate, Splattered Thoughts

First there was the housing crisis, which was not unlike the dot com blow-out. Over indulgence eventually will take its toll. Then we experienced the credit crisis and now we are all in a full blown financial crisis. Will the stock market ever stop dropping? Will the Federal government ever give us back the $700 [...]