Online Business
I Just Made $250K From App Store In Two Months
Steve Demeter developed the iPhone puzzle game Trism as a side project, but now he’s quitting his day job. Why? Because he says he’s generated $250,000 in profits since he started selling the $4.99 game on iTunes this summer. That’s after Apple (AAPL) has taken its 30% cut of total sales, and after subtracting his [...]
Property Room: Where Cops Sell Stolen Goods
Property Room is an online police auction site that sells “hot” or stolen goods. It turns out that replacing the classic police auction is good business.
PropertyRoom.com is set up as a kind of eBay for police auctions. Items are sold in categories including jewelry, fine art, tools, bicycles, watches and “everything else.” The site was [...]
Protect Yourself on Craigslist
A warning from the Better Business Bureau, particularly to those of you that use Craigslist. There’s a scam out there that offers something called a “B.B.B. Purchase Protection Program.” The Better Business Bureau has received more than 2,075 complaints from people saying that they were scammed.
Here’s how the scam works. When you’re shopping on Craigslist, [...]
Cash in on non-English search engines and more
It’s sometimes easy to forget just how global the World Wide Web really is.
Hundreds of millions of people are surfing at any given time. We in the U.S. (and other English speaking countries) have a tendency to think everyone speaks our language.
The foreign language Internet – meaning all web content not in English – is [...]
Larry Page founded Google on a sleep dream
Here’s a tip for entrepreneurs (and everyone else): If you want great success, dream it. Literally.
Google co-founder Larry Page recently revealed in his commencement address to the University of Michigan that the basic platform for google was based on a sleep dream he had in college. Page, then 23, took the source material of his [...]
Nine-year-old starts up web business
A nine-year-old girl has become India’s youngest CEO after starting up her own online design business.
Shreelaxmi Suresh received recognition for her work after she developed a website for Kerala Bar Council, located in the country’s south.
The youngster has displayed a keen interest in computers and art since she was in Kindergarten.
With a little assistance from [...]
Harnessing the power of analytics
You’d be surprised how many startups don’t see the value in their Web traffic data.
All too often the only statistics a site’s owner has on hand is a basic set of website logs from their web hosting company – logs which they rarely have analyzed or looked at in depth. Further, they often have few [...]
