Comments on: The New .com Era Is In Full Force http://lastblogger.com/archives/354 The last blogger to the gate Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:24:48 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Marc http://lastblogger.com/archives/354/comment-page-1#comment-2226 Marc Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:11:48 +0000 http://lastblogger.com/archives/354#comment-2226 Hey Sean, thanks for the thoughts. You got trapped in my spam filter though, sorry. I hadn't thought about the hosting angle. It is a lot cheaper this time around and that does help lower the entry barriers even further. While it was never that expensive to operate a smaller website the big change is in the medium websites. It's a ton cheaper for operate a medium site. Large scale sites are still expensive, but it's a lot easier to secure funding once you've proved yourself on the medium scale. Hey Sean, thanks for the thoughts. You got trapped in my spam filter though, sorry.

I hadn’t thought about the hosting angle. It is a lot cheaper this time around and that does help lower the entry barriers even further. While it was never that expensive to operate a smaller website the big change is in the medium websites. It’s a ton cheaper for operate a medium site. Large scale sites are still expensive, but it’s a lot easier to secure funding once you’ve proved yourself on the medium scale.

]]> By: Sean Smith http://lastblogger.com/archives/354/comment-page-1#comment-2207 Sean Smith Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:53:32 +0000 http://lastblogger.com/archives/354#comment-2207 From what I can tell, advertising, via adsense and other services, is serving as a major source of revenue for a number of startups. For many of them, it allows the site to be self sustaining (like <a href="http://blog.obvious.com/2007/02/looking-for-odeos-new-home.html">Odeo</a>. I think this makes it easier for people to jump into the ring with their own ideas. At the very least, they end up with a portfolio piece when looking for other work. In other cases, their idea will take off, and we end up with things like YouTube or Twitter or last.fm. This time around, hosting is cheap, and your company doesn't even really need an office. The barrier of entry is low enough that it is an attractive option for people to try out, as long as they have a few months of savings tucked away. From what I can tell, advertising, via adsense and other services, is serving as a major source of revenue for a number of startups. For many of them, it allows the site to be self sustaining (like Odeo. I think this makes it easier for people to jump into the ring with their own ideas. At the very least, they end up with a portfolio piece when looking for other work. In other cases, their idea will take off, and we end up with things like YouTube or Twitter or last.fm.

This time around, hosting is cheap, and your company doesn’t even really need an office. The barrier of entry is low enough that it is an attractive option for people to try out, as long as they have a few months of savings tucked away.

]]>