Posted by Johan Cyprich on 31 May 2008 | Tagged as: Business
Philippe Kahn is a technology innovator who’s main claim to fame is the founding of Borland Software. This business began with no venture capital and was worth over $500 million by the time Kahn left. Obviously, he knows a thing or two on building a successful software business.
In his keynote address at the 2007 MEMS [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 05 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Business
Open source software receives a great deal of attention, but is it taking away sales from its commercial counterparts? Software sales were poor from 2000 to 2006, but sales in 2007 in the US were totaled at $3.3 billion. This does not include game software. Sales in 2007 were 15% higher than those in 2006.
Microsoft’s [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 22 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Business
I recently read an article in the phpBB forums where one user was very disappointed in how mods are applied to phpBB forums. I don’t blame him. They tend to be a very time consuming process where you follow instructions on searching for code fragments in various files and then either change them or add [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 22 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Business
Blogging credibility has been give a great boost in next month’s Entrepreneur magazine. In one article, John Chow is featured in Blogging for Dollars. The article discusses the rapid growth in blogging recently, with Technorati reporting 175,000 new blogs being started each day, and how John’s blog went to from zero to $25,000 per month [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 02 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Business
Most blogs make very little, if any, money. John Chow began his blog on September 2006 and made $352.94 in his first month. The revenues from it in December 2007 were $25,040.36. He has an eCPM of $102.56, which is how much money the web site makes for every 1000 page views.
John Chow dot Com [...]
