If there ever was a stupid business model, it’s the Free ISP. Now, that being said.. the Free ISP model is rather successful in the UK, but only because of reciprocal revenues paid by BT and the Local telcos to the ISPs. Even then, the pay-per-minute model for...
Phew! I almost bought one this week for $39,000. They used to sell brand new for under $30,000 in the US but since they stopped importing them in 1997 they’ve become collector’s items. Looks like the bottom will be dropping out of the used D-90 market...
Oops. I was talking about Boo.com… got confused. Thanks JayPee for outing me on my Freudian slip. -Ian. At 01:07 PM 04/05/00 -0700, you wrote: >I can’t remember posting anything about Foo.com to FOIB before, but I’ve >been watching their swan dive...
I can’t remember posting anything about Foo.com to FOIB before, but I’ve been watching their swan dive with a grin on my face for the last 18 months. In the early going, FOO was positioned as high-fashion snob culture meets geekdom and the twentysomething...
Wow! So it’s true… OneBox really IS Bill Nguyen’s toy startup. I guess now he can be a full partner at IVP. $770M? Ridiculous.. OneBox has 2.5Million users? Bullshit. 2.5 million people signed up for the service and aren’t using it....
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
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