NRao Blogs: Internet Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurs

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2011

Top 1000 websites - Google Adplanner Presentation
http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/index.html
Tue unique visitors and page views are for a month

Top 17 Most visited sites Starts with 1 Facebook
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/most-visited-sites-2011_n_883756.html#s297574&title=17__Youkucom Starts with number 17

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Every knol author is an internet entrepreneur. Of course, they can be tiny scale entrepreneurs. There are mega internet entrepreneurs like founders of Google, Yahoo and Amazon. After the first round of great internet entrepreneurs, second round is now appearing. Founders of Facebook and Twitter are now the popular internet entrepreneurs. Many more will emerge in future.

But at small scale level, there will be many opportunities for persons interested to become businessmen and self employed persons.

Resources for Internet Entrepreneur Ideas and Support

Windows Phone 7 Applications writing opportunity
http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/bruceky/Teenager-Makes-Money-Writing-Windows-Phone-7-Apps-with-AdCenter
13 year teenager is making money by writing Windows Phone 7 applications and using AdCenter ads

http://500startups.com/about (David Mclure)
http://blog.500startups.com/2011/04/13/500strong-rules-the-universe/

App Entrepreneurs

Google, Facebook, Twitter, Web and Mobile Apps - Applications - Enterpreneurship

Another Internet Bubble
http://fernstrategy.com/2011/01/21/another-internet-bubble/
I want to participate in this dynamic market.

Interviews with 63 Internet entrepreneurs
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/63-juicy-internet-entrepreneurship-interviews-in-one-book-code-bytes/28919/
Business Plan for an Online Article Platform - Comments
http://i-trepreneur.com/ (last post in 2009)

http://i-trepreneur.com/2008/09/14/150-useful-resources-for-online-entrepreneurs/
http://www.sparkplugging.com/sparkplug-ceo/does-google-page-rank-foster-an-attitude-of-stinginess/
http://www.sparkplugging.com/sparkplug-ceo/i-should-have-kept-my-fricking-mouth-shut-or-google-cracks-down-on-the-mommy-bloggers/
http://www.smallscalebusiness.com/homeworkbusinessopportunities/how-to-start-internet-business-in-the-next-3-minutes/

http://www.smallscalebusiness.com/homeworkbusinessopportunities/small-business-idea-522-how-to-start-a-desktop-publishing-business/

http://decisiveminds.com/online-business-owners-avoid-these-5-outsourcing-mistakes/3306
http://decisiveminds.com/5-easy-to-outsource-tasks-for-online-businesses/3304
http://decisiveminds.com/make-money-by-writing-product-reviews/3276

Interesting Internet Enterprises

2011

What is value of Knol platform?
$30 million based on Yahoo paid $5.62 for acquiring Associated content.com

In India, E-Commerce sites are being supported by venture capitalists. This time they feel, there are 100 million internet connections in India and therefore E-Commerce sites have better prospects to cash on.

Dropbox has 25 million users.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/17/dropbox-hits-25-millions-users-200-million-files-per-day/

http://www.dropbox.com/

Google Entrepreneurs

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/search/label/entrepreneurs%20at%20Google

FreePhone2Phone

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/29/freephone2phone-free-call-startup_n_840559.html

Top SEO firms 2011 International Business Times
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/128632/20110330/world-s-top-seo-firms-for-2011_1.htm

Big claims
http://trafficultimatum.com/?hop=bro03294

2007
5min.com
Video sharing site
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/04/prweb515994.htm

http://www.instigatorblog.com/an-interview-with-5mincom-life-videopedia-founder-ran-harnevo/2007/04/04/

Acquisitions of Web Properties and Alliances

2011

Youtube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen acquired social bookmarking site Delicious from Yahoo.

http://kottke.org/11/04/youtube-founders-acquire-delicious

http://www.delicious.com/help/transition

http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/04/27/delicious-acquired-by-youtube-founders/

Valuation of Websites in 2011
http://www.fusiondiary.com/2135/huffington-post-acquired-are-gawker-and-glam-next/
For monthly unique visitor, AOL paid Huffington post $12.6.
AOL paid Techcrunch $27 a visitor
Yahoo paid $5.62 for acquiring Associated content.com
(Funding for Ac http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/associated-content )
(Yahoo buys AC http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-Buys-Content-Farm-Associated-Content-142379.shtml ) AC has 16 million visitors per month. Yahoo has 600 million visitors.

KPMG Valuation sheet for May 2010
http://www.kpmgcorporatefinance.com/valuation-updates/media-marketing/MediaMarketing_May10.pdf

2008

Sugar Network of blogs leaves NBC alliance for advertisements

In 2008, Sugar network has 4.6 unique visitors per month and wanted to sell advertisements on its own instead of relying on NBC for which it was paying 50% of the ad revenue as commission.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/sugar-leaves-the-nbc-suite/

2006

Seqeoia invests in Blog Network Sugar Publishing October 2006

http://techcrunch.com/2006/10/16/sequoia-invests-in-blog-network-team-sugar/

2005

Yahoo acquires Delicious for $15 to $20 million

http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/10/technology/delicious_biz20_120905/?eref=yahoo
McKinsey article - 2000
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Valuing_dot-coms_385
Commenatary on Internet valuations - 2000 by Crisil
http://www.crisil.com/Ratings/Commentary/CommentaryDocs/insite2.pdf

About Some Internet Enterprises

2011

Joomla - 7.4 million visitors per month

http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1416-25-percent-growth.html

2 million unique visitors per month