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There are seven online business models
- swombat 16y ago... among the top 100 companies in the Nielsen Top 100 websites in January 2010.
- reitzensteinm 16y agoNo kidding. I don't see extortion on the list for instance.
- thalur 16y ago...among 21 companies selected from the top 100...
- barrybe 16y agoThere are exactly 21 companies that run an online business. No more, no less.
- ggordan 16y agoThis is partly related, but fascinating nonetheless: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8552410.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8552410.stm 'mapping the growth of the internet'
- _pius 16y agoFor a more interesting (yet still incomplete) rundown of business models, check out The Art of Profitability by Adrian Slywotzky: http://sivers.org/book/ArtOfProfitability http://sivers.org/book/ArtOfProfitability
- DanielBMarkham 16y agoI'm looking for a new book. Has anybody read this and/or could recommend it? I hear it mentioned on HN from time to time. Any good? More to the point, has anybody read the book and created something of value from it?
- _pius 16y agoI've personally read it, bought it, and loved it. I don't know whether I've directly "created something of value from it," but it's certainly expanded my toolbox of ways to make money.
- loboman 16y agoI read it, I liked it. It has many good ideas one can apply. But it's not the definitive business strategy manual. Looks like an introductory guide for more advanced readings; I'm still not sure what such more advanced works would be, probably Porter. It's a really short and succint book. I would recommend reading it.
- erikstarck 16y agoIt's a very good read. I liked its style, it's written as a master/tutor discussion a la Socrates. It's also a fairly quick read. Recommended! After reading it you will be thinking: if a business model can't be explained with four strokes of a pen it's too complex. :)
- tst 16y agoI would recommend reading the book recommendations in each chapter. It takes a while but you'll read a lot of good stuff
- steveklabnik 16y agoWait, so Apple gets excluded > We would have loved to have seen this innovative company included in the financial analysis, but Apple still makes far more than 50% of its revenues off hardware and devices. But then Dell is included... > Dell is known for being the classic direct sales company – without a bricks-based retail presence Apple's brick and mortar stores are doing well, but not _that_ well, right?
- cjeane 16y ago'the typical 6,000-square-foot Apple store rang up sales of about $4,700 per square foot in 2008, which was "undoubtedly the highest among retail chains in the country"' Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/2009/1/apple-stores-now-just-cheap-entertainment-for-broke-shoppers-aapl http://www.businessinsider.com/2009/1/apple-stores-now-just-...
- steveklabnik 16y agoImpressive. Frankly, I'm still not sure that Dell or Apple would be a good choice to include here anyway; of course a place that sells $1000 - $2000 objects is going to have incredibly high revenues, and as you can see on the graph, it kind of skews it a bit...
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- zipdog 16y agoThere seems to be a bunch of problems with them making a definitive statement about internet business based on this research. First, the Nielson list doesn't include data from two of the G8: Japan and Canada. It also doesn't include China, but we could guess (perhaps wrongly) that there's not serious money being made by internet companies there yet. The list also only includes websites, which does not correlate to "internet businesses" (They freely admit this problem in relation to B2B, but what about something like Blizzard?). The restriction to the stock market is necessary for the reason they give, but massively narrows their sample based on an awkward criteria (Facebook isn't listed and is making $100 million or something) 21 companies does not have much statistical significance against seven criteria. I think (I'm not in stats) you'd need more like 600, and then I'm pretty sure you don't start with a list and see if they fit (if you start with a larger potentially overlapping set of business models then you could run a series of algorithmic tests to see which subset provided the best fit). Their list looks somewhat generic, although even at a pinch it looks incomplete. What about selling real goods on subscription? This model has been viable enough offline, and in a way that should translate to online (eg magazine subscription, regular home care product delivery) but it doesn't fit into any of their models.
- EGreg 16y agoI would hardly say there are only seven. http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/07/10-business-models-that-rocked-2010/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/07/10-business-models-that-roc...
- bhousel 16y ago8. Cybercrime
- acconrad 16y agoI feel like blogging and trolling are now synonymous.
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- polynomial 16y agoThe eighth business model is of course offering a reward to anyone coming up with a viable business model that is not on the list.
- adamdecaf 16y agoYep, and one of them is to apparently make your site load, then disappear when JavaScript is disabled. Classy way to throw away business...