$100 million worth of goods were sold on Etsy in 2008. The company is generating over $1 million/month in revenue. To read more about interview and transcript read full article.
Here is other older interview about the Etsy done by wallstrip.
Some more interview and links:
At first I thought Monster was just another .com company that was making a few million dollars, but after analyzing their income statement, I realized that I was wrong. The company was actually earning hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
- Solve a unique problem
- Be scrappy
- Don’t get too comfortable
- Have a marketing plan
- Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
- Don’t be afraid of your competitors
Although I made a lot of mistakes with Advice Monkey, it still could have succeeded. The problem was, I didn’t learn from my mistakes. If I realized them when Advice Monkey was still around, I could have made the necessary changes to improve upon it.
Neil Patel , author of this story, is the co-founder of 3 Internet companies: ACS, Crazy Egg, and KISSmetrics.
Read more about his first business AdviceMonkey.com did not succeed from his blog post.
Twitter users were asked to nominate others and then vote on the
finalists in each category. And apparently the competition for the
award, absurdly, has driven some people to buy votes on Amazon
Mechanical Turk. The going rate? $0.48 per Tweet.
This comes on the heels of Belkin paying people 65 cents for good reviews on Amazon, which at least has a clear logic trail (good reviews = more sales). I’m not so sure a Shorty Award is quite so monetizable.
read more about it on techcrunch.
It's an attention-seeking gimmick, but it's a good one. Australia's Tourism Queensland is looking for a caretaker to live on Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef. Job duties include fish feeding, snorkeling and blogging about your experience.
Pay? AU$150,000 for six months (about $100,000). Plus "return airfares from your nearest capital city (in your home country), accommodation and transport on Hamilton Island, travel insurance for the contract period, computer, internet, digital video and stills cameras access, plus travel to a number of the other Islands of the Great Barrier Reef."
Position: Island Caretaker Great Barrier Reef
Department: none
Ref #: Best Job in the World
Status: 6 Month Contract
Salary: AUD $150,000 for 6 Month Contract
Closing date: 22 February 2009
You need big balls to be an entrepreneur.
You can start a business anywhere not to mention that you should “don’t worry, be crappy.”
It’s an annual tradition. Every year at Macworld, Apple releases a smattering of stats that gives a peek at how its business is doing.
[via techcrunch]
- iTunes has now sold six billion songs (it crossed the 5 billion mark last June).
- Over 10 million different tracks are available on iTunes.
- Starting today, 8 million songs are DRM-free, and all 10 million will be DRM free by the end of March.
- There are now over 75 million accounts on iTunes linked to credit cards.
- In fiscal year 2008, Apple sold 9.7 million Macs
- Mac sales grew twice as fast as the overall PC market.
boxer would like to say a big ‘thanks' to Green Door Films for allowing us to use the most entertaining camera we have ever had the pleasure of using and to SHL Film & TV Ltd for making us all look so pretty under their lights. Also, a huge thank you to Urban Splash for letting us make such a mess (even if we did have to clean it up!).
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us at boxer.
PS - Every last cake crumb was licked up.
There is no question that 2008 has been good to us here at Ning. We ended the year with exactly 700,000
social networks used by millions of people in their daily lives. That’s a 5x
increase in social networks on the Ning Platform in a single year. More
interestingly, 50% of these social networks are active, as defined as active
usage by members in the past 30 days.
In 2008, we also grew total registered users by 12x, daily page views by 5x and raised enough money to ensure we successfully make it out the other side of a challenging economic environment.
[via ning blog ]
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