Product Description

Online and mobile communities have never been so popular - and there has never been a greater opportunity to create huge wealth by launching your own! You don't need to be experienced, nor do you need a lot of capital. You don't even need to create a new product or conceive a new service. In forming an online or mobile community you simply aggregate users who will exchange information - and pay you for the pleasure of doing so. In Smart Start-Ups David Silver explains this phenomenon and provides prescriptive advice for everyone, from graduates looking for their first start-up to experienced business people who want to make the leap from manager to owner. Read and discover: Precise blueprints for over two dozen business models that anyone can launch; Dozens of revenue channels for early-stage communities; A unique scoring system for you to decide whether a start-up is worth the risk. If you work in an industry that is trying to avoid permanent damage to its diminishing customer base from new online competitors, you can use Silver's ideas to protect your market share.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #125384 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
'If entrepreneurship is a religion, then Silver is its high priest' USA Today

About the Author
David A. Silver is the founder of Santa Fe Capital Group (a venture capital firm) and has over thirty years' experience backing entrepreneurial companies. His recent articles have appeared in Forbes, The New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. He lives in America.

Customer Reviews

Bad but worth buying
Other than some good useful tips and pieces of statistical information this book didn't teach me much.
The calculations showing how much Angel Investors and Venture Capital firms want to get although interesting are explained in a confusing way and the numbers don't quite add up in my opinion.

The guy seems obsessed with the thought that you have to charge your users for being part of your community which I totally disagree. There are other ways to monetise from them, selling items, services, etc but not charging everyong $20 a year like he keeps on suggesting page after page.

That's another thing, the book could probably have been about 2/3s shorter if he didn't repeat himself and talk gibberish.

The business models are hopeless.

He puts his contact details in the Intro in case you want to ask him for his opinion on your plan etc - he's an angel fund investor and may help you if he likes your idea. Although to be honest, I wouldn't really trust him to know what I good idea is.

Great Starter
David outlines some gems here on real tangible methods of making money from online communities...