New .com Bust Coming?

There might be a bust coming but it is not going to touch most people here. Many warriors are looking for a simple life with a residual income that pays enough for them live life. Sure there are are some top money makers around but they are not in my league.

Kenj

But there's a huge difference - companies like Amazon and eBay were actually online businesses. There whole existence hinged on getting customers and selling goods...and the reason the bubble got so bad was because everyone else was trying to sell the same things. How many big businesses online are in direct competition with someone else large? Maybe I'm just ignorant to the facts, but there aren't any true competitors to Facebook and Twitter left in their respective genres.

But the poster above me was correct - any bubble like that is irrelevant to what we're doing. How many investors do you see throwing thousands at people doing CPA offers, autoblogs, or whatever strategies on here? There's a difference between online businesses and companies doing business online.

To be honest, if somebody gave me 50 million and asked me to create a website that will recover that investment in 5 years... I have no idea what sort of site I would create. I don't have any fresh high-concept ideas laying around waiting for investment capital.

Since I can't think of anything original at the moment, I would probably sit down and take a good hard look at all of the consistently popular niches and then develop something for the one that I felt was lacking a strong authority site. I would stick with a proven niche since they have a greater chance of returning a profit. Creating the next bingobongo whatchamacallit site... don't most of those fail?

Business model would revolve around providing information, membership, selling products and building a list for further promotion. Nothing new for those of us wandering around the WF. Think of something along the lines of what Beachbody (p90x) has done, they have cleared over 420 million.

Maybe use the same resources and expand to a couple of sites all within the same niche but covering different angles for maximum niche coverage and cross-promotion.

I'd probably invest most of that money into advertising and SEO. 5 million should be enough to cover staff costs for 5 years. A couple of writers, hot shot web developer and a couple of SEO monkeys.

You could actually pull off all of the above without the 50 million. Just need a group of people wiling to work towards a common goal. Just fill in the roles of Team Leader, Web Developer, Product Creator, Writer and outsourced SEO monkies. BAM! Instant Success... who's in?

That was way to much thinking this early in the morning. Time for some Cap'n Crunch.

I think there may be a market correction coming, but the big difference between this bust and the first one is that cash revenue seems to still be a pretty big requirement.

Last time around, nobody cared if there were sales, or if there was even a model to generate sales.

Michael, I sorely miss your old photo. This one just disturbs me. And VCs.

I am consciously trying to turn a new leaf here on Warrior Forum, and be more... shall we say... effusive...

With $50 to $80 million, I would have to carefully think about what to invest that in. But I really can't see any serious "bust" happening soon.

I would probably invest the money in first researching heavily on applications for mobile devices. I think mobile devices and what you can do with them is the future.