Rose Cantine

In part 2 of this series, I mentioned that it took me a year to make money (via advertising) from my blog, Muniwireless.com. You won’t attract advertisers in the first month of blogging because you probably won’t have a lot of readers.
How many visitors do you need to attract advertisers? How do you get and [...]

Recently, I posted a series of articles on turning a blog into a media company — well, a small niche media company.
But if you want to hit the big time, i.e. building an online media business that rakes in $50 million+ in revenues, you’ll have to read two posts written by Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed [...]

Recommended reading for anyone who decides to start a business is James Dyson’s autobiography entitled Against the Odds which Jason Fried of 37 Signals calls “one of the best books about design, business, invention, and entrepreneurship I’ve ever read.” Click here to read Jason’s post.
Dyson is the inventor of the Dyson vacuum cleaner. He calls [...]

Techcrunch posted this article about Hot or Not, a dating site set up in 2000 by James Hong and Jim Young out of their house. They never took outside funding. Over the years, the founders made $20 million. The site was taking in $600,000 per month in revenue (advertising and paid subscriptions). But last month, [...]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has an online legal guide for bloggers. The guide applies to people live in the US and does not discuss foreign legal issues. It provides an overview of liability issues and more detailed sections on intellectual property law, privacy, defamation (libel), the Freedom of Information Act, etc.

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I came across this story in the Asheville Citizen-Times about a community program in Hayward County, North Carolina that helps people start businesses. The Certified Entrepreneurial Community program is part of the regional economic development agency’s plan to stop relying on attracting large companies to improve the business climate:
We’re talking about a different model of [...]

This is the story I like to tell often because it is so unbelievable. Back in May 2005, when Muniwireless.com had already established itself as the place to go to for all things muni Wi-Fi, I was wondering, how do I take it to the next stage? Many people were asking me to hold conferences [...]