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08 Nov 08

Digg founder says economic meltdown prime time for Internet startups (AFP) by AFP: Yahoo! Tech

  • Difficulty getting financing means fewer competitors entering the market and that there will be more media attention focused on young technology firms, Rose told those gathered at a Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
  • "Funding for consumer-oriented Web companies is going away and there will be a lot of opportunities out there."





    Formidable social websites such as Digg, Facebook, and Flickr launched in 2004 when it was a "tough time" to get funding for websites geared to Internet surfers, according to Rose.





    "We didn't launch during Web 2.0," Rose said, using a common reference to a second-generation Internet defined by online communities and user-shaped content.





    "It is a very difficult time to launch new companies when there is a lot of other stuff going on."





    News-ranking website Digg didn't face much competition during its first six to eight months, got generous coverage in the press and attracted a fan base of "early adopters whose time wasn't split with other products," Rose said.

29 Feb 08

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

  • A few billion blades later, this business model is now the foundation of entire industries: Give away the cell phone, sell the monthly plan; make the videogame console cheap and sell expensive games; install fancy coffeemakers in offices at no charge so you can sell managers expensive coffee sachets.
  • But until recently, practically everything "free" was really just the result of what economists would call a cross-subsidy: You'd get one thing free if you bought another, or you'd get a product free only if you paid for a service.
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30 Oct 06

Economics for the Citizen, Part 1

  • Scarcity produces several economic problems: What’s to be produced, who’s going
    to get it, how’s it to be produced, and when is it to be produced? For example,
    many Americans, and foreigners too, would love to have a home or vacation home
    along the thousand miles of California, Oregon, and Washington coastline.
    Shipping companies would like to use some of it as ports. The U.S. Defense
    Department would like to use it for military installations. There’s simply not
    enough coastline to meet all the competing wants and uses. That means there’s
    conflict over coastline ownership and its uses.
  • During fall semesters, I typically teach our first-year Ph.D.
    microeconomics-theory course. Out of a love for teaching, I’ve decided to not
    completely take off but deliver a few lectures on basic economic principles to
    my readership. We’ll name the series “Economics for the Citizen.”

Online economics textbooks

  • good for self learners - joel on 2005-10-29
  • This online textbook is accompanied by online Flash and QuickTime tutorials, interactive spreadsheet, and PowerPoint slides.
  • This online textbook, provided by R. Preston McAfee (Calfornia Institute of Technology) provides a rigorous coverage of a wide range of microeconomic topics. It's a remarkably comprehensive introductory text.
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