Thalasar Ventures

Archive for March, 2007

Sales – It’s actually the lifeblood of any company.

When Bill and I were first starting Brave New Worlds, I was handling sales. While I am not entirely bad at this business function, I am not the greatest. Getting a handle on sales is the lifeblood of a organization and when you are web enabling brick and morter operations (OMG that sentence is SO 1997).

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Using Inline Contextual Advertsing to Monetize a Blog.

You might have noticed that I have been running contextual ads for the last week or so. It was my experiment to see how they generated revenue. Here are the results.

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Podcast VS Video Blogging

With the proliferation of tools for easily generating podcasts and with YouTube’s distribution of
video files, how can you make the right choice when to generate a video blog vs a podcast?

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Mybloglog.com and Existential Adventures

I got an email from Broc over at Existential Adventures about his first giveaway

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Nyquist Limit and the Environment

Yesterday I found myself in a debate over global warming at Jane Galt. One the commenters had an interesting comment about Nyquist limit and the dataset for global warming.

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Legal Structures, Acquisitions and Startups.

One thing that hasn’t changed in a start-up is choosing the correct legal form for your web startup. Because of the way deals are often structured, your legal entity can either hinder or help you. Let’s go over some of the options.

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Godaddy Hosting Customers Still Down

I am getting intermittent reports that many of Godaddy’s hosting customers are still down after a denial of service attack brought down Godaddy and it’s hosting environment.

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Fathead Affiliate Program Reviewed

Ok since I am pretty effective affiliate for Commission Junction I have opted to recieve their mailing for affiliate programs. One of the recent program offers I recently received was for Fathead.com. I took a look at the program and decided join it and review it for the site.

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Icons VS Text Links VS Nothing?

As you can see I have added icons to various social bookmarking services at the bottom of posts. I think they are kinda cute and they replaced my text based links which I had previously. After making the change (and writing an MT plugin to do it – I should have checked the plugin directory BTW. There’s a plugin that already does it!) I began wondering if it made sense to do this?

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24 Social Bookmarking Sites you definitely need to know about!

I have to admit I it took me awhile to understand social networking and social bookmarking sites. In many ways I still don’t get it. Not having a clue hasn’t stopped someone from blogging about something before and I am no exception. That said here’s what I have learned in the past few months.

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