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Kerching! - New dot com boom

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    Kerching! - New dot com boom

    http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/...cle3620882.ece

    Yeah, right!

    I can see only upside in the current economy. What with bargains in housing and now there'll be plenty more idiots investing in this new boom. With a little timing I can make as much dosh as the last time.

    Kerching!
    Hard Brexit now!
    #prayfornodeal

    #2
    START-UP: TEXPERTS (QUESTIONS ANSWERED)

    Sarah McVittie, 30, and Thomas Roberts, 30, set up the company in 2003 as 82ask, and recently gained investment to give it new life as Texperts. It is based around the text-messaging of questions to experts, who come back with a rapid answer for £1.

    It is valued at around £7.4m
    Frustrating as I though of that exact same idea in 2002 but never did a darned thing with it (apart from register a load of domains)

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      #3
      Originally posted by Platypus View Post
      Frustrating as I though of that exact same idea in 2002 but never did a darned thing with it (apart from register a load of domains)

      You could always start up SEXPERTS, a more specialised version.
      Hard Brexit now!
      #prayfornodeal

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        #4
        Originally posted by Platypus View Post
        Frustrating as I though of that exact same idea in 2002 but never did a darned thing with it (apart from register a load of domains)
        So do you have any good ideas now?

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          #5
          Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
          So do you have any good ideas now?
          The Plan B I went for is all too slow to take off and not at all profitable

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            #6
            Originally posted by Platypus View Post
            Frustrating as I though of that exact same idea in 2002 but never did a darned thing with it (apart from register a load of domains)
            A family members internet start has just got another round of VC cash-£350million.....


            nice work if you can get it.

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              #7
              Originally posted by sasguru View Post
              http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/...cle3620882.ece

              Yeah, right!

              I can see only upside in the current economy. What with bargains in housing and now there'll be plenty more idiots investing in this new boom. With a little timing I can make as much dosh as the last time.

              Kerching!
              I can give you that 10 quid if it makes you so happy...
              I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Francko View Post
                I can give you that 10 quid if it makes you so happy...
                It was considerably more than £10. In fact it gave me the deposit to put on a BTL. Not much by some people standards but I like that - use one artificial boom to make money out of another and so on ad infinitum

                Now that is proper capitalism
                Hard Brexit now!
                #prayfornodeal

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                  #9
                  would-be employees will use a Facebook page instead of a CV

                  Maybe that's where I'm going wrong in my quest for a new contract. Of course employers want to see all my dodgy photos of me puking up in various night-spots, my current score on Rate My Poo, and check all my friends don't include Rolf Harris.


                  Some other interesting quotes from the article:

                  "it will be different this time"
                  "if there is a bubble and it bursts, it will be a soft landing"

                  Can't quite put my finger on where I've heard those phrases so often before but I'm sure they're right.
                  Feist - 1234. One camera, one take, no editing. Superb. How they did it
                  Feist - I Feel It All
                  Feist - The Bad In Each Other (Later With Jools Holland)

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Platypus View Post
                    Frustrating as I though of that exact same idea in 2002 but never did a darned thing with it (apart from register a load of domains)
                    there are half a dozen companies providing such a service. (Including one who pitched on Dragon's Den, IIRC)

                    Personally, I can't see it being more than a flash in the pan success.

                    tim

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