A radical business plan for start-ups: Charge people.

Re:A radical business plan for start-ups: Charge people. by cglee on Friday October 31, 2008 @12:33PM (#350068)

Isn't this what the 'long tail' is about? Online, your 'neighborhoods' are demographic niches.

Now, if the needs of your online 'neighborhood' have already been met, then that's similar to living in a neighborhood full of Italian immigrants and still looking to start an Italian restaurant nearby. You'll have to move and learn about the needs of other 'neighborhoods'.

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Re:A radical business plan for start-ups: Charge people. by mlinsey on Friday October 31, 2008 @02:53PM (#350229)

Many people (including Eric Schmidt in a submission that was posted earlier this week, although I've certainly heard it before) argue that the Internet follows more of a Zipf's Law distribution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipfs_law) than a "long tail". In other words, the bulk of the traffic and therefore the revenue is in the head. As a corollary, the Internet doesn't get rid of celebrities, it creates bigger celebrities.

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Re:A radical business plan for start-ups: Charge people. by daniel-cussen on Friday October 31, 2008 @03:24PM (#350266)

True. Maybe the metaphor was apt. At any rate, we can all agree that there are quite a few niches that are a little cramped.

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