Article: How to (In)validate Your Startup Idea

How to (In)validate Your Startup Idea
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etsy.com - sell your handmade goods

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Earn Money For Checking In - WeReward.com

 

 

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WeReward.com - Earn Money For Checking In

via KillerStartups.com - all von am 17.06.10

We Reward is the latest app in the ever-lengthening queue of check in services that aim to conquer the imagination of internauts. In this particular case, things are kept very concise, and the app is true to its moniker in the sense that everything revolves around money. The company champions something that goes by the name of sponsored check ins.

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Buy and Sell Data with Data Marketplace

via ProgrammableWeb von Matthew Casperson am 21.06.10

The internet is the perfect medium for matching supply with demand. You can find your next freelance job or, as Craigslist has been singled out for, find just about anything else (if you know the right euphemisms). Now, with Data Marketplace, you can also easily request or provide datasets covering anything you can think of:

Data Marketplace makes it easy for people to find, buy and sell data online.

People request data that they need. Providers upload data to Data Marketplace, provide descriptive metadata, and set a price. Stored metadata is used to help consumers find relevant data through traditional search engines and when browsing the marketplace.

At the moment there are not a lot of datasets available, and those that are available cover fairly standard topics like ZIP codes, stock prices and life expectancy. Far more interesting are the requests, like data on permits for pizza restaurants, email addresses of hedge fund managers and stats on people trafficking.

It will be interesting to see if Data Marketplace can complete with the freely available data being pushed out by governments around the world (like the UK and US), and services ranging from Wolfram Alpha to Infochimps.

But with the obscure nature of some of the requests, Data Marketplace is sure to find a niche.

 

 

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Envato.com - Selling & Buying Digital Items Easily

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Envato.com - Selling & Buying Digital Items Easily

When it comes to getting the benefits of robust platforms where artists and musicians as well as designers and developers have the possibility to promote and sell their work, the Envato Marketplaces seem to be a valid option.



This is an Australian company that offers people the chance to buy and sell not only music and videos but also digital items like website templates and so on. It will also give you the opportunity to follow any particular author so you can get in touch with him/her to buy the articles you need.

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Banking 2.0

Banking 1.0 meets Banking 2.0

List of crowdsourcing providers (They pay you for work)

Often I got asked about a concrete list of things you could do in the Internet to make some extra money. Beside my core business of Online Marketing it was difficult for me to help. But now I found the ultimative list of service providers, who offer money for working tasks. The list is long and will be, for sure, grow in the future. Here you can read and update the list

Quirky: Social Network for Inventors

Another example for collective intelligence

Quirky: Social Network for Inventors

Quirky is a unique service catering to those fledgling Thomas Edisons in our midst. Similar to Threadless, it's a social network that allows inventors to upload ideas and vote on them. If a product gets enough votes, it gets manufactured and sold through the site. While stories are rife of wannabe inventors losing their life savings to dishonest organizations that prey on these hopeful individuals, Quirky appears to be legitimate and is very open about the entire process (I also have a friend who's submitted an invention idea to Quirky and it was actually manufactured; see the image below).

There are other social networks for inventor-types such as Incuby, InventBay, InventTube and IdeaWicket, to name a few. However, Quirky strives to be as innovative as the products it helps bring to the masses.

How Does it Work?

All members can submit their new product ideas for review by fellow community members for one week. If the idea is well received and wins the "product of the week" award, then it goes into production and, ultimately, to market. All members can vote on other ideas submitted for review so everyone contributes to the network. Your standing in the community, which they term "influence," grows as you vote on products and with each of your ideas that goes to production, which encourages everyone to get more involved.

What's the Catch?

While it is free to join the Quirky community, submitting your product ideas is not. It costs $99 for each product idea that you submit for review. If you're fortunate enough to get enough votes to take the product to production and market, then you share a portion of the sales with Quirky. That comes out to be approximately 12 cents for every dollar of profit that your product makes.

Final Thoughts

Even though most of the product idea submissions never make it to the production stage, each inventor gets valuable feedback about their product. Quirky likes to think of this as a built-in focus group comprised of nothing but fellow inventors (although the community does include non-inventors). In that respect, shelling out $99 to get sound advice might not be such a bad deal when compared to all of the less-than-honest organizations out there that are bilking inventors all the tim...

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Elance Hot 100: Good News for Designers

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Elance Hot 100: Good News for Designers

I got an exclusive sneak peek at the July edition of the Elance Online Work Index (a kind of Elance "Hot 100″), which will be published tomorrow. The index, which uses data from over 100,000 jobs posted on the site, is a monthly look at which job categories are the most popular in the freelance job marketplace.

PHP still holds the No. 1 spot (as it has since February), but what's more interesting are the "movers and shakers" this month. In particular, jobs in the "Graphic Design" and "Adobe Flash" categories have leaped up the index this month to end up in second and third places overall (up ten and six spots from last month, respectively) — this is good news for designers. Another big mover is jobs in the "Joomla!" category (breaking into the top 10 by rising 10 places to eighth), suggesting that there's increasing demand for people skilled in the open-source CMS.

It's more of a mixed bag for writers: While "Copywriting" (up 11 places to 23rd), "Editing" (up 16 spots to 48th)  and "Proofreading" (up 15 spots to 44th) are all winners, "Article Writing" (down five places to 7th) and "Online Writing" (down 12 places to 29th) are dropping down the index.

While some of these categories sound too similar to take this index all that seriously (how different is "Online Writing" from "Web Content," really?) and you should remember that this is taking into account only jobs posted on one site, it's still worth noting as a snapshot of the current freelance marketplace.

Here's the Elance Online Work Index Top 10 for July.

1. PHP (–)


2. Graphic Design (+10)


3. Adobe Flash (+6)


4. MySQL (-1)


5. HTML (-1)


6. Web Content (+1)


7. Article Writing (-5)


8. Joomla! (+10)


9. CSS (-4)


10. WordPress (-2)

(Disclaimer: WordPress is produced by Automattic, a company that is backed by True Ventures, a venture capital firm that is an investor in the parent company of this blog, Giga Omni Media. Om Malik, founder of Giga Omni Media, is also a venture partner at True Partners.)

Designers: Are you noticing an increase in demand for your skills recently?

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Im Internet schreiben und Geld verdienen

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Im Internet schreiben und Geld verdienen

SCHREIBE ÜBER DAS WAS DU COOL FINDEST - Berichte auf Trends der Zukunft über DEINE Trends.

Jeder fragt danach, wie man am besten Geld im Internet verdienen kann und viele stoßen dabei auf die einfachste Methode: Schreiben. Im Internet schreiben ist eigentlich ganz einfach: Du meldest dich für einen Blog an und schon kann es losgehen. Es gibt viele Blogs da draußen doch nur wenige mit wirklichem Potenzial. Wir von Trends der Zukunft glauben an das Potenzial von TDZ. Deshalb geben wir nun Studenten und Hobby Schreibern die Möglichkeit ihr Talent unter Beweis zu stellen um mit Schreiben im Internet Geld zu verdienen.

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Top Resources for Finding Work Online

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Top Resources for Finding Work Online

Written by Samuel Dean.

The Monster Employment Index, a monthly snapshot of U.S. online job opportunities maintained by staffing site Monster.com, provides a distressing view of the general employment environment at the moment, as seen below. Year-on-year, the index is down 30 percent. At the bottom of this page, you can see versions of the index for large metropolitan regions, some of them hit very hard. Fortunately, there are still some good work opportunities out there for those of us who work online. Here are my top resources for finding online work.

oDesk. Online staffing marketplace oDesk is a great place to start if you're looking for jobs in fields such as web development and design. Many of the jobs listed are for remote workers. Earlier this year, oDesk reported a surge in the number of jobs being outsourced to the U.S. from other countries — more than 300 percent growth over the past year. If you're looking for an assignment from an overseas employer, put up a profile and showcase your skills at oDesk.

Twitter Job Search. I wrote up TwitterJobSearch here. It searches Twitter for posts on who is hiring. The posted jobs range from full-time, to part-time work-at-home, to one-off hired gun positions. With Twitter being the social phenomenon that it is, many new jobs (particularly tech jobs) are posted daily.

Elance. If you're looking for freelance work, Elance is a great place to start, as we reported here. Elance now offers an escrow account service to help boost confidence between employers and freelancers. Employers can place payment into an escrow account via Elance that will be delivered upon completion of your project.

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ShortTask: Connecting Online Job Seekers With Providers - like mturk

 

 

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ShortTask: Connecting Online Job Seekers With Providers

via WebWorkerDaily by Imran Ali on 4/26/09

Written by Imran Ali.

ShortTask is a marketplace for tasks, aiming to match-make "solvers" and "seekers": people who have time to complete brief tasks and people who need small tasks completed.

In many ways, ShortTask is similar to Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) service. Like MTurk, ShortTask is seeking to address tasks that aren't large enough to necessitate the hiring of a contractor or part-time employee. This marketplace is largely oriented around activities that can be completed from home — ideal for web workers — and currently numbers around 61,000 available tasks.

Activities include transcribing audio and video files, annotating images, copywriting, commenting on blog posts or online forums, data entry and online research. Seekers simply publish a task, set a payment level and deadline. Solvers can explore the site and select the tasks they'd like to complete. ShortTask takes a 10 percent commission on each transaction.

ShortTask might be a useful way to find additional work. However, I'm uncomfortable at the payment levels set in the marketplace. Salon published a great article in 2006 examining the labor law implications of Mechanical Turk, "I make $1.45 a week and I love it!," which suggested that MTurk-like services are undercutting the minimum wage.

For example, today ShortTask has listed a task to transcribe a 22-minute video, within four hours, for $5.50. That's about $1.30 an hour, or the equivalent of $200 for a month's work. That particular task is one of the better paying tasks listed at ShortTask; the worst fast-food service jobs will pay you better.

If services like ShortTask expect to flourish, they'll need seekers to pay fairly, so that a reasonably sized population of solvers can be sustained. More significantly, the marketplace operators should at least adhere to minimum wage levels.

People have fought for the right to be equitably compensated. Codifying that in the services we use to find work is both essential and moral.

What do you think of marketplaces like ShortTask?

 

 

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Raveal: The Future of Online Job Hunting?

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Raveal: The Future of Online Job Hunting?

Written by Darrell Etherington.

We've all probably used either Monster.com or Workopolis.com at some point. Whether or not we did so successfully or enjoyed the process is another story. Looking for work online can feel clumsy, impersonal and of questionable effectiveness. Even professional networking apps like LinkedIn haven't really made significant advances to the way we go about searching for jobs on the web. A new service, called Raveal, hopes to bring some fresh perspective to the online employment search game.

Raveal is aimed at the job hunter, promising to represent those who list themselves with the service as people, not assets. It's an attractive prospect when you're coming from a situation where you feel significantly less than human in the meat market that is Monster. And it has a distinctly simple, clean Web 2.0 look that at least shows the site's designers take their job seriously.

Once I got into the process of actually creating a profile, though, I began to wonder if the look and feel of the site were the only things that distinguished it from its predecessors. The information asked for when setting up your public profile is suspiciously similar to the information you'd be asked for on Workopolis or any similar site. I suppose the basic search criteria that employers will use doesn't vary that much, so maybe Raveal using it can be excused. Still, for a modern Web 2.0 app, I found the categories provided to be pretty traditional and restrictive.

Raveal's resume creator is a little more free-form. The standard "Objective," "Experience" and "Education" fields are all there (although you can customize even these basic section titles), but you can also add as many additional custom categories as you want. Each section has entries within it, which consist of a title and a description or details. It's a very simple format, but it does allow for considerable customization.

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Loomondo - working online

online job portal with only online jobs to make money: http://www.loomondo.de

Ebay starts app store to make money with sellers at http://developer.ebay.com/web20

Ebay starts app store to make money with sellers at http://developer.ebay.com/web20

Apple Opens Up More Ways To Get Paid On The iPhone, Adds Key New Features. Apps Hit 800 Million Downloads.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/17/phone-apps-hit-800-million-downloads/

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4 Tips for Making More Money while Staying Local

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4 Tips for Making More Money while Staying Local

Written by Simon Mackie.

While some people have the luxury of working solely online, with clients dispersed throughout the world, the reality is that most freelancers need to cultivate local clients — those that they can meet in real life — in order to pay the bills.  Freelance web developer Matthew Pennell has written a post with four useful tips on making more money from local connections.

Matthew says that you should:

1. Make local connections


2. Find your neighbors online


3. Participate in offline community


4. Use search engine optimization to capture local searches

In particular, I think that the advice on getting out there and meeting your local peers (by joining some groups, perhaps) is valuable: you never know what opportunities might come your way through your network.

The advice to localize your SEO efforts is also worth bearing in mind. Localized searches (for example, "web designer in Bridgeport, Conneticut") are much more valuable from an SEO perspective. As Matthew notes, there is much less competition for a localized phrase than a more generic one. Clients like dealing with local businesses that they can meet in person. It's also generally true that local searchers are further along the buying cycle, which means that those searches are far more valuable, as the searcher is more qualified and more likely to make a purchase.

How do you make better use of local connections?

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Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant, unobtrusive Google ads on their website's content pages and earn money.

Triond: money for blogger

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Triond

Triond: Verdienstmöglchkeit für Blogger

Triond bietet Bloggern eine Möglichkeit, mit ihren Beiträgen Geld zu verdienen. Artikel, Fotos oder Videos von Blogs werden im Triond-Netzwerk veröffentlicht und die Autoren werden an den Werbeeinnahmen beteiligt.

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search @google: http://www.google.de/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLJ_enDE273DE275&q=developer+platforms
programmableweb http://www.programmableweb.com/
apple http://developer.apple.com/de/
amazon http://aws.amazon.com/
facebook http://developers.facebook.com/
ebay http://entwickler.ebay.de/
zanox http://webservices.zanox.com
LinkedIn Opens Applications Platform with Google, Amazon:  http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=application_directory
Yahoo Widgets: http://widgets.yahoo.com/tools/
Yahoo Mobile Widget Platform: http://mobile.yahoo.com/developers: Mobile widget platform:  
SpringWidgets: http://www.thespringbox.com/developers/: (Widget platform)
WidSets: https://dev.widsets.com/index:  (Mobile widgets service)
Widgetbox: http://docs.widgetbox.com/developers/
TagWorld:  http://www.tagworld.com/  (Social web services:)
Clearspring  http://www.clearspring.com/services/widgetmedia/monetize   (Widget creation, distribution, and tracking services):
Netvibes: http://www.netvibes.com/     http://blog.netvibes.com/?2009/01/21/235-widgets-update-weather-to-do-lists-and-a-new-calculator
Pageflakes:  http://www.pageflakes.com/
Serence Klip: http://developer.klipfolio.com/
Skicow: http://www.skicow.com/article/Skicow-API-Developer-Guide/18/42
Windows Live Gadgets: http://gallery.live.com/
Windows Sidebar Gadgets:  http://vista.gallery.microsoft.com/vista/SideBar.aspx?mkt=en-us
yourminis: http://www.yourminis.com/
Google Homepage:
Microsoft start.com:

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