If you care about the internet, entrepreneurship or technology, you should care about PIPA / SOPA. For the record, I am 100% in favor of protecting the rights of artists and copyright holders. Artistic creation takes incredible effort and intellectual property rights help insure that we have a vibrant culture and media economy. However, the “Stop … Continue reading
There are 2 classic business models for web businesses, or more generally put, for media businesses. These have and continue to be advertising and subscription based. Obviously advertising models are about eyeballs – how many people can you get to look at your content so that you can monetize them through advertisers. Subscription models are … Continue reading
I had an interesting call with a friend of Jesse’s this morning – he’s starting a web venture and is debating whether to do it as a non-profit or a for-profit. The idea is similar to Indaba in that it’s a web app for creative artists (not musicians in this case), and so we went … Continue reading
