Ad Network Shakeout has started
When advertising budgets shrink, the CPM and CPC declines. If you have spent a lot of time and money getting traffic to your website and have high fixed costs , your operations will be affected. If you have diversified and have low overheads , you can survive.
Go Real or Go Home
Interesting presentation with numbers. I am very frugal and do not like to waste money, so at least the next one year should not be a problem . I only wish there was a reliable marketplace where Indian websites/online businesses on sale would be listed. Most venture capitalists will [...]
Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
One of the most frustrating things about having an online business in India, is that other Indian internet companies judge you by the number of staff , the kind of office you have or how slick your website is. They think that just because I do not have a [...]
Stuck in Google’s Doghouse
Big companies will always protect their own interests and there is little a small business can do if they are dependent on a single source of revenue / supplier. So I always look for new vendors for purchases, if the new vendor is good, I can get a better price and a [...]
Interesting summary of business models on the web
By the end of this month, I should get payment from at least 15 different companies for very different products and services and I hope to increase it to at least 30 by the end of the year. For an online business, it is very important to know [...]
Interesting post on the Internet’s Biggest Security hole . Some months ago, traffic to some of my websites had almost disappeared, this could be the reason.
From Another internet bubble in India
am aware of few very well known startups that are shutting shop (will share as we get a green signal from founders/investors).
In India, most internet companies think that getting funding = success, but they do not realize that you lose independence and have [...]
I do not have an IT or internet background and when I started dealing with internet companies I was shocked at their attitudes, especially the smaller companies.
If you have worked in a professionally managed company, you learn to put aside your personal likes and dislikes, treat everyone fairly based solely on business criteria and get [...]
Dark Blue Sea Financials
There seems to be a 50% decline in parking revenue. I had applied to Fabulous a few months , but they had rejected my application, saying that my domains were not of good quality. (most are reg fee domains) .
Since [...]
Microsoft/FaceBook/Google from India? Can Indian Society produce Gates/Larry/Zuckerburg?
The problem is the attitude of people who start a tech business in India, most people however “educated” are not able to think independently, they just ape other products/websites.
If you are an engineer from a top college, and do not go abroad for further studies, do an [...]