A reader sent me this link,
which really surprised me. I guess I haven\’t seen TV commercials for a
long time since I use a PVR and skip all commercials all the time. So
it shocked me to learn than 51% of all TV ads include a URL, up from
18% in 1998.
Daily Archives: July 27, 2005
Things I Love
I love blogging.
Last month 23,000 unique visitors came to my web site, mostly to read
my blog. Two weeks ago I blogged about how only 4 students had signed
up for the Internet Marketing course at BYU that I\’m scheduled to teach
this fall. Now there are 32 enrolled.
I love Wikis.
Our FundingUniverse.com
team launched a Wiki last week for entrepreneurs. We have 8 volunteer
editors so far who are going to help us recruit contributors and build
a Wiki that contains thousands of quotes and "success tactics" from the
most successful entrepreneurs of all time. Our hope is that
entrepreneurs will use this Wiki to find new ideas by discovering what
VC Firms Increase Funding for Early Stage Startups
A report shows that early stage funding is increasing.
$1.3 billion in venture capital flowed into early stage companies in
the second quarter up from $830 million in the first quarter. I keep
hearing that VCs are doing more early stage deals, but this is the
first report I have seen that bears this out.
Still, the 750 companies funded by VCs are a tiny number compared to
probably 10-15,000 that are funded each quarter by angel investors
(including friends and family, doctors and dentists and first-time and
serial angels). That is why there is such a need for FundingUniverse.com to match local entrepreneurs with local angels.
According to Angel Investing (p. 146), a book published in 2000 by two Harvard
Business School professors, "In the United States, angels invest in
Mobile User Demographics by Carrier
A fascinating report by M:Metrics on what kinds of cell phone users are attracted by each carrier, and how each carriers\’ users consume mobile content.
