I literally tried about 200 different dot com names for our startup and they were all taken. I had some brilliant ideas. They were all taken. Even the weird ones I came up with were taken.
In the end I settled for something I wasn't 100% happy with. It was a dot com and quite relative to the business, but it wasn't catchy. At the point of registration I knew this would not be the final name. So I decided to stop wasting time fretting about a name and focus on the business and product. I know that at a later stage I will be able to get some clever creative team to come up with a great theme and name and a catchy dot com that encapsulates that theme / brand. So for now our site has a clean design with not too much branding, but will easily be able to apply the changes once the creative team work their magic.
Nice one camperman. Can't go wrong here. Been on Stronglift's for over a year and it got my squat up from 40Kg to 145Kg.
Aiming for 180 -200Kg by the end of this year!! Great program for discipline too which really carries through into your other work and area of life.
Well, judging by what I keep hearing about who gets funded,I would say she stands a good chance. The reason I say this is because I keep hearing that investors invest in people, not ideas. So, if you ignore her idea and focus on the person, you have an assertive person that believes passionately in their idea and can talk the socks of the people in the room. I know I would like a person like this in my company (perhaps without the hippy vibes though). Even though most of us believe her idea is absurd, I bet, like me, everyone watched the whole presentation. And that's impressive.
Also, sometimes you might know someone who would be the best co-founder, but they just aren't in a position to be a co- founder (family, other commitments etc). But, you can still have them assist as mentors. I think a strong single founder with a good group of mentors could be as good as 2 founders.
Also, at a later stage, that mentor might find themselves in a position to join the venture.
I have definitely noticed a decline in activity on Facebook over the last 6 months. Whether this means people are going to leave or not is another question.
I have been on Facebook for about 4 (maybe longer) years and the activity seemed to peak between 2009 - 2010.
However, over the last 6 months, I have noticed that there is a definite decline in activity on everyone's pages. People comment much less if at all, likes have declined, people that were getting loads of feedback are now getting much less. (this is based on 2500 friends pages, most randoms as I used to DJ / radio part time which resulted in lots of random requests)
Perhaps the novelty has worn off and people are simply using it to stay in touch instead of entertain. To me it seems that earlier users are using it much less while older users and users from other countries are boosting its userbase and activity.
I am a little surprised, but so glad that someone posted this article. As a matter of fact, the prime reason I joined Y-Combinator and Hacker News is because the business I am developing is a solution to this very problem that the adult industry's experiencing. As I write this I am busy with my application for the Summer funding round.
The article is really thorough and provides a great summary of the overall state of the industry. The most important point raised is that while the traditional avenues of generating revenue from porn are dwindling rapidly, there are still many new (and also undiscovered) methods of generating revenue, and lots of it.
In my opinion, the only way to go about this, is to work with the content producers, not against them. Tube sites all work against the industry, but surfers go there because they have what they want. Isn't it obvious that if there was a solution that worked WITH the industry that the benefits would be much greater for both the producers and surfers?
Apple charges peanuts for a track in their iTunes store, but they generate massive revenue because of the sheer volume of content sold. And it's not just because their content is cheap, but because its convenient and easy for the users, so people keep going back and back again. If you had a solution delivering porn on similar principles, you would be generating revenue and supporting the industry.
Just like with music, you will always get those that download illegally and those that pay. Same principle for porn. Just make sure its on terms the user is happy with and you may even convert non-payers into payers when they realize how much more convenient the new service is that trawling through the net searching for their stuff.
In the end I settled for something I wasn't 100% happy with. It was a dot com and quite relative to the business, but it wasn't catchy. At the point of registration I knew this would not be the final name. So I decided to stop wasting time fretting about a name and focus on the business and product. I know that at a later stage I will be able to get some clever creative team to come up with a great theme and name and a catchy dot com that encapsulates that theme / brand. So for now our site has a clean design with not too much branding, but will easily be able to apply the changes once the creative team work their magic.