Guy Kawasaki
I had a nice email exchange earlier with Guy Kawasaki. He wrote "The Art of the Start" and has a good blog about Web start-ups here.
I'm interested in the idea of community sites like VideoSift taking on the big boys as start ups - not driven by venture capitalists, but by its members. Kind of Silicon Valley meets PBS. With a lot of that hive mind stuff that DotDude mentioned in his post below. At the moment VS gets around 20K visits a day and 1.5 ~ 1.7 million page views per month.
I have to admit as a nerdie web guy I'm out of my depth in the murky waters of real business.
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HAMFIST says...If you don't mind my prying, how much does hardware/hosting run?
It seems most 'meta' commentary websites make their money from either charging membership fees or advertisements -- and I should point out that PBS uses both.
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
We're on the beefest VPS we could get. It runs around $200 per month. We will need to move to a dedicated rack soon however, based on server load increases.
If we were hosting the video ourselves, we would probably have been toast months ago. But luckily very little heavy content is being hosted on our server.
ACESo what is in store for V.S.?
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