Look at this article from 2000 – How things have changed or Not

http://www.internet-law-firm.com/articles/LinkMag_may_2000_.htm

  Martin’s ragingbull.com was a force to be reckoned with in mere months. It caught the eye of CMGI, the world's largest and most diverse network of Internet companies. Its chairman, David Wetherthell, hammered out a deal to fund the site over pizzas with Martin and his two cofounders. In February, the start-up was acquired by portal and search engine behemoth AltaVista for an undisclosed sum. How much? A few months before the buyout, Martin turned down an offer of $200 million. Raging Bull currently controls about 5.6 million shares of AltaVista stock, according to Securities and Exhange Commission filings. So you do the math. "Now we’re playing in the big leagues," Martin quipped after clinching the deal.

These 2 links have videos that are important to me

http://www.sellingpower.com/

http://www.truenyc.com/

This Lady Sells Shit — I mean it

http://fecalgram.com/site/main

 "and she is making money doing it"

This guy brings $2 million Packing Shit

http://www.petbutler.com/pbx/

Pet Butler proudly bills itself as “#1 in the ‘#2’ business.” The company charges a small per-visit fee for its technicians to collect dog and cat waste, carry it away, and dispose of it properly. Whether in yards or in public spaces, accumulated domestic animal waste can ruin lawns and present a significant source of water pollution.

Pet Butler has grown from a one-person enterprise to its current 15 full-time employees and 40 franchises from coast-to-coast. The company is on target for $2.5 million in revenue in 2006.

 http://www.franchisewire.com/article.php?id=771

An Unusual Idea Makes Money

 your company finds itself in need of a corporate aural brand frontage, and has not been sufficiently warned of the possible dangers posed by letting deranged musos loose in the boardroom, then hotfoot it down to eNthem – “a revolutionary new project, that hopefully, will change the business world forever!”And how. Here’s the pitch:

It’s not a secret, that each and every nation, has their own anthem! A national anthem, is a special song, that is the heart and sole of each and every nation. A song, that reflects nation’s identity and everything the nation believes in, it’s self, unity, devotion and loyalty, as well as expresses all the great values of the nation.

Well, just like each and every nation has an official national anthem, we believe, so should each and every company have an official eNthem!

Not convinced? Well, try out this MP3 sample of exactly what you get for your $499. Apparently it’s sung by “Miroslav Chernyetsky, an 18 year old musical wonder, who’s voice is constantly compared to that of Josh Groban”*.

Really? Favourably or unfavourably?

And as for the lyrics, people have appeared before the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague for less. Enough said. ®

23 Year Old Affilliate Marketing Millionaire .

I was really interested in the internet, and always wanted to be an entrepreneur,” says 23-year-old Jennings, today managing director of eConversions.co.uk, which has leading brand names among its clients. Starting with travel sites, he put helpful information about a city destination such as Barcelona online, then added a link to Expedia so people could book their hotel there. Having done a deal with Expedia, he received commission if shoppers completed a transaction. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2103-2230562,00.html

According to his website – He generated over £75 million of sales for merchants in 2005

23 Year Old Affilliate Marketing Millionaire .

I was really interested in the internet, and always wanted to be an entrepreneur,” says 23-year-old Jennings, today managing director of eConversions.co.uk, which has leading brand names among its clients. Starting with travel sites, he put helpful information about a city destination such as Barcelona online, then added a link to Expedia so people could book their hotel there. Having done a deal with Expedia, he received commission if shoppers completed a transaction.

According to his website – He generated over £75 million of sales for merchants in 2005

Selling Your Product To an Exclusive Club

THE PROBLEM: Gaining access to a close-knit market.

While at a restaurant in December 2004, Chandler Powell saw his parents struggle to read the menu. He imagined that a lighted magnifying glass would help, though he couldn't find one for sale. A month later, the then 21-year-old college junior attended a musical in a dimly lit theatre and had difficulty reading the program. Again, he thought of a lighted magnifying glass, and again, none were for sale nearby. When he later found several types offered online by retailers, his entrepreneurial spirit kicked in. He would create his own lighted magnifying glass and sell it at a venue where it was sorely needed.

 http://www.startupjournal.com/howto/soundadvice/20060515-needleman.html

Typo-scanning service is a World Wide ‘Webster’s’ for firms seeking to create good impressions online.

TextTrust (www.texttrust. com) seeks to eradicate the misspelling plague by serving as a site checker for hire. That's all the 9-month-old company does, with yearly scanning fees starting at $50 and increased based on a client site's size.

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/business/technology/14643140.htm

Webmail.us Signs 10,000 Businesses in Six Months

http://www.webhosting.info/news/1/webmail.us-signs-10,000-businesses-in-six-months_0602069606.htm

Webmail.us Signs 10,000 Businesses in Six Months

2nd June 2006

Email hosting firm now hosts email for 20,000 businesses worldwide.

Webmail.us, a provider of email hosting services to small and geographically dispersed businesses, today announced that it experienced rapid growth during the past six months, adding 10,000 businesses to its email hosting system.

The company says it reached this milestone on Wednesday, May 31st, and now hosts email for more than 20,000 businesses worldwide.    

"We have been growing at an increasing rate for several years now but our growth has increased dramatically in the last six months," explained Patrick Matthews, CEO at Webmail.us. "We're seeing growth in both the retail and reseller sides of our business, even as competition from very large companies continues to intensify."

Big plans in mini burgers – Interesting Story

But a native Southern Californian who loved surfing and downhill ski racing, Abblitt believed that if he were ever to be in charge of his own destiny, he should try something bold before the age of 30, and before responsibilities like family and kids kept him bound to a corporate pension and salary.

In 1985, at age 29, after working for Dow Chemical Co., he opened a Del Taco franchise. He said he figured if it failed, he'd have time to recoup his losses.

http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2006/06/12/story2.html?i=47027

This restaurant only Sells Cereal

At the quick-serve restaurant that serves customers only cereal or food made from cereal, there are TV screens that show nothing but cartoons, all the servers wear pajamas and you can even have your cereal with chocolate milk

I have included a link to a bunch of articles related to the company cereality

http://www.cereality.com/comp_press.php

Chessclub.com – not a bad idea at all

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/07/chess.ent.idg/  from 1999

– Don't tell Daniel Sleator the membership model doesn't work for online gaming sites. Sleator's site admittedly isn't the usual venue for preteens wielding swords, spells or space blasters in the latest multiplayer shoot-'em-up extravaganzas. But perhaps that's precisely the reason for his success. Instead, Sleator's patrons play a game that's, oh, about 2,000 years old. And they spend $49 a year for a relatively low-tech experience in Sleator's Internet Chess Club (ICC), despite the availability of free chess services elsewhere online.

 Today the company has over 30,000 paid members . It cost $49 ayear

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:sMGef9Ug6msJ:www.e-business.fhbb.ch/eb/publications.nsf/bb366c7c939905e1c1256c5600643476/e27fa661d09a8be1c1256d7a0049ba8b/%24FILE/amcis_Ginsburg.pdf+chessclub.com+and+Daniel+Sleator&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=21

I have neve been a fan of the retail biz model

I just dont like the retail biz model because a lot of times the whole buisness boild down to pricing especially if yo are selling a commodity that 100,000 other businesses are selling . One could be profitable if they are selling a unique product in a Niche . A lot of good big businesses fail because of competition – Kmart and Delta are just 2 of such companies. Smaller leaner more efficient competitors usually come in and cut the profit margin and thus the price .

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2006/02/big_ebay_seller.html

http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m05/i12/s01

http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2006/03/20/local/doc441de28628c28040365915.txt 

$8 Million A Year Ebay Seller goes bankrupt .

Brandon Dupsky wrote the book on making money on the Internet, a book claiming he made more than $8 million a year.

But on March 4, his Lincoln company filed for bankruptcy. his company was sell2all.com

http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2006/03/13/local/doc4414c34adee2c015524273.txt

Also See http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m03/i15/s02

Top eBay PowerSeller Sell2All Inc. has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. This is the second high-profile PowerSeller to close its eBay business this year. Glacier Bay DVD was eBay's top feedback seller and closed its business abruptly in early February (http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m02/i06/s03).

So you want to be a millionaire — who doesn’t?

If you're looking for a little inspiration on your quest for wealth, get tips from people who already have made their millions. These success stories run the gamut from Grammy-winning songwriter to first-generation entrepreneur to everyday people who simply lived below their means. Their paths to wealth are diverse, but what they have in common is a 24/7 commitment to their goals. Learn from their experience what it takes to become a millionaire.

• Seize an opportunity.
• Have a fallback.
• Learn from your experience.
• Take a chance.
• Forget stereotypes.
• Simple ideas work.
• Find your niche.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Retirementandwills/Createaplan/P148867.asp

ONE-PRODUCT RESTAURANT Launches

ONE-PRODUCT RESTAURANTS: Specialization is the next stage of evolution in the restaurant industry, says Aaron Allen, founder and CEO of Orlando, Florida-based Quantified Marketing Group, a strategic marketing and PR firm for the restaurant industry. So bring on the restaurants selling only cream puffs, soup or cereal. Americans are hungry for them. Jodene Jensen, 39, Ken Hall, 36, and Keri Barney, 36 gambled big When they opened P.B.Loco, a restaurant in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 2003

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DTI/is_12_33/ai_n15923511

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13151814/

Simple Idea Brings in $6 Million

THE ENTREPRENEUR: Kate Adams, 46, founder of Snap-Saver LLC in San Diego

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Snap-Saver food-storage containers, which come in five sizes, keep kitchen cupboards organized by offering a unique feature–each lid snaps to the bottom of the container, so users never have to search for matching lids. Snap-Saver lids also snap to each other. Early customers included East Coast chains Boscov's, Organized Living and Wegman's. In March 2005, the company had its first run on QVC, and sales to Sears stores nationwide started in September 2005.

STARTUP: $12,000, which Adams spent to obtain a patent and develop a computer simulation video of her product

SALES: Projected to hit $6 million in 2006

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DTI/is_12_33/ai_n15896777

21 Year Old Ceo of Software Company

AS THE FOUNDER OF ExploreAnywhere Software LLC in Plaistow, New Hampshire, Bryan Hammond is proving that wisdom doesn't always come with age. At the ripe age of 21, he already helms a software company with 2005 sales projections of more than $1 million, and his computer-monitoring products have become a big hit among parents, employers and educators. How did he achieve all this, when most people his age are still finishing college?

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DTI/is_1_34/ai_n15980642

Entrepreneurs Stupid Idea is a hit

So in the summer of 2004, he founded Lindland Clothing. "It was a stupid idea," he admits, "but it seemed to have appeal."

http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/20/smbusiness/corduroy_biz20_1221/index.htm