Answer Upon - Internet and Businesses Online

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Love or hate ‘em, you’re hitched to advertisements, and by default, also to their fine print. There are many discussions on whether ads work, what effect they have and who they’re really intended for. We don’t, as a whole, take ads seriously unless we are one of the converted. Yet we should take small print in ads seriously, especially if we are converted.In print, ads are not so much of a bother; we can easily skip over them. On live TV it’s different. At best we can mute the channel or, god forbid from the point of view of whoever paid for the ad, switch to another, get up for a break, snooze, or take care of some small busine

ontentsutra.com, startupdunia.com, indianstartups.net are just few to name them.

Many of these startup sites are getting millions of dollars in investment. And lot of these sites are initially planning to creat a community. The above link from the professor about last dot com failure mentioned few topics that caused the dot com failure. Two of them were "Doing the same thing" and "Building Community not clientele".

Recently Minglebox.com received $7 million in funding from Sequoia Capital. Kavita Iyer (Wife of Sandeep Singhal who is MD of Sequoia India) is the CEO of MingleBox.com. From ContentSutra.com MingleBox will get revenue from advertising and branded communities later once they get established.

Sequioa India has also funded few more dot coms like Guruji.com (Indian Search Engine) which recently launched their services in Telugu.

And no

Tips for Successful Interview
Every young person has a dream to get job in a big company. And interview for an anticipated post has become a very important step in one’s professional life. Despite trying their best for this moment things go wrong for most of the candidates. Sometimes it is difficult to digest the fact that even very capable people fail in the interviews only because they lack knowledge of basic concept and the art of success which help them to swim through the tides successfully. Here are some great tips to appear for an interview successfully.1. Prepare ThoroughlyKeep your general knowledge updated regularly. Rehearse answering the e

The "dot-com bubble" was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2001 during which stock markets in Western nations saw their value increase rapidly from growth in the new Internet sector and related fields. The period was marked by the founding (and in many cases, spectacular failure) of a group of new Internet-based companies commonly referred to as dot-coms. A combination of rapidly increasing stock prices, individual speculation in stocks, and widely available venture capital created an exuberant environment in which many of these businesses dismissed standard business models, focusing on increasing market share at the expense of the bottom line. The bursting of the dot-com bubble marked the beginning of a relatively mild yet rather lengthy early 2000s recession in the developed world.

Early in the bubble years, three major technology groups benefitted most from the building excitement of what the Internet had to offer. These were: Internet and network infrastructure (e.g. WorldCom, larger than MCI in August 1996), Internet tools (e.g. Netscape), and Internet-direct consumer websites (e.g. Yahoo!).

I dont want to discuss here what happened in the past and what caused the dot com bubble to burst. I want to discuss about the current situation of dot coms. If you want to read about the past, here is a nice article from a professor

The internet back then was not mature enough but now the internet is much much mature and stable.

Lets talk for a moment about the current giants, Google, Yahoo and MSN. All three are specializing in their own fields. competing for the first place in the internet world. And there are sites like digg.com, myspace.com, youtube.com which offeres different kinds of services whether it be a video sharing, social networking or bookmarking sites.

In this cutting edge technology, if you have something unique, you would be able to sell it within few hours. And thats what happened with digg.com, youtube.com and myspace.com. There are many more sites which offered their unique service and became famouse overnight.

Just to give you a small example for uniquness, I created this april fool hoax this year with a title "Aishwarya Rai Wardrobe Malfunction" (Visit the link http://www.informationmadness.com/cms) and within 2 hours I got 1000 visitors to my website. I didn't copy this from anywhere but was my own brain child. And the link became so famous that now there are so many blogs, sites link to my web page.

So the point is uniquness. But what happens when you start a new venture based on some existing product? Do you think its going to work?

So many new websites are poping up everyday in India. I dont think they have anything unique to offer. Lets take a look at few sites

* Video Sharing for India - I dont know which one launched first. But within no time, you have AapKaVideo, MeraVideo, ApnaTube, VideoDubba, punjabeetube

* After digg.com there’s HumDigg, IndianBytes, NewsCola, PutVote, IndiaMarks.

* And the same goes for social networking sites. After the success of Orkut now we have -- Jhoom.in, minglebox.com, yaari.com, fropper.com, SaffronConnect.com, rediff Connexions, hangoutwith.com, onlineslambook.com and other thousands.

This shows a Herd mentality. There is a nice article about "Herd Mentality and Indian Startups" on startupdunia.com.

Even for information on "Indian Startups" there are atleast 15-20 sites. e.g. startups.in, webyantra.net, contentsutra.com, startupdunia.com, indianstartups.net are just few to name them.

Sequioa India has also funded few more dot coms like Guruji.com (Indian Search Engine) which recently launched their services in Telugu.

And not

Attracting Jobs to Your State
States are competing for new business much like people bidding at an auction. The state with the lowest cost to the Company is likely to win the bid. Tax breaks, $1 land leases, state assistance, construction costs, availability to skilled labor, and logistics are major concerns for companies. States that solve these problems are likely to win the bid but many states aren’t even in the game.Companies are always looking for the best deal when selecting potential sites for a new plant or headquarters. States long for more business to increase tax revenue, provide needed jobs and continue state growth. The problem is that every othe

ost from the building excitement of what the Internet had to offer. These were: Internet and network infrastructure (e.g. WorldCom, larger than MCI in August 1996), Internet tools (e.g. Netscape), and Internet-direct consumer websites (e.g. Yahoo!).