Comments on: Why you should start a internet company today.

By: tight

tight — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:23:47 +0000

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By: J B

J B — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:51:11 +0000

It may be easier to start a company today, but the thing that so many forget is that the company they start should be something that they have an actual passion for. When I went into business with my brother, we both were looking for something that we love and that brought us back to the skateboarding and snowboarding industries.
We are doing very well for ourselves because we love what we do. Our websites (www.myboardshop.com and http://www.bladhboardshop.com) have become bigger than we would have imagined. The reason we are doing so well is because we love this industry, on a lighter note, I like what grumpY! had to say, “You needn’t be #1 to make money.” That pretty much sums it up.

By: Startup Fever

Startup Fever — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 11:34:44 +0000

Why You Should Start an Internet Company Today

Chris Mullins started an internet company, skateboard.com, back in the bubble of the 90s, when things were different from they are today:
There are so many reasons to start a company today, but the biggest one is because itâ€™s cheap. You can now ru…

By: grumpY!

grumpY! — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:55:22 +0000

T: you cannot compare websites to selling oranges. oranges are a commodity product where locality counts. this is why there are people selling oranges in brazil and sweden who are not competing. the comparison to the web market is utterly fallacious.

and i agree with you that the market can absorb multiple competitors, but you must understand that ultimately this leads to razor thin margins in exactly the market you discuss – online retailing. not only can you make money selling books out of your apartment these days, you must – because your other ten potential competitors are also doing this.

once again, low startup costs typically imply low margins.

By: Dan H

Dan H — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:48:27 +0000

What I think you’re saying is the cost of entry is cheap. However that doesn’t necessarily make it the thing that everyone should do. A great idea, is a great idea whatever. The best things happen when great ideas collide with enthusiastic determined people. My other concern is that a lot of the discussion around the second wave is very US centric.

By: T

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:02:05 +0000

Saying that everyone is doing it (referring to “starting a website”) and it’s an overcrowded space is like saying “everyone sells things” and there’s no room for more retailers. It really isn’t true.

Websites do different things – they sell things, they offer services, they offer entertainment – it’s just a medium. Amazon doesn’t compete with Slashdot, and Slashdot doesn’t compete with Hotmail. They do different things, and just because they are websites doesn’t mean they’re “crowding” one another out.

Even though there are many websites that, for example, sell computers, that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for more. You can make a fine living being the 3rd best computer seller, or 4th largest news aggregator. You needn’t be #1 to make money.

By: grumpY!

grumpY! — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:50:55 +0000

of course its cheap to start a website,

thats why everyone is doing it

supply/demand folks, no one is going to reward you for providing the 1001th solution in an overcrowded space, regardless of your startup costs.