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Mentos, Diet Coke, and Intenet and Money

How do they all come together?

Go here. There is a video (it is clean I assure you). View it. I particularly like the fact that one of the authors is a lawyer. Some of us are fun and have a sense of humour.

What is so interesting about this. Well, first is the fact that the video has been viewed and downloaded millions of times, from the above site to YouYube to Google Video.

It demonstrates the power of the Internet and the increasing use of video in non-traditional areas and distributed in non-traditional means. The authors of this video have purportedly made over 30.000,00 in advertising revenue.

There are hundreds of articles on the topic. Here is one which is nicely written and rather good.

The point is to simply bring to your attention that there are ways of using the Internet to help your business or, indeed, to create a business, which are constantly being created. You need to keep abreast of developments. One great publication is Backbone magazine (I have no affiliation with it at all).

London's Alternative Investment Market - Part II

I recently made a post discussing the London Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and the increased interest in using AIM.

Well, in the most recent issue (July/August 2006) of Lexpert magazine (a Canadian magazine for lawyers) there is a nice article on the AIM and I will note a few of the statistic they use.

- total market cap is 75 billion (a fivefold increase of the last 5 years)

- 20 billion was raised in 2005

- in Q1 2006 6.5 billion was invested

- 519 companies did IPO’s in 2005

Also noted is that the regulatory regime for AIM, while vigorous, is more streamlined than one would find in North America, especially when one considers Sarbanes-Oxley and the SEC.

Something to chew on if you are considering an IPO as a means of expansion…

Teachers' Copyright

Here is an interesting business plan. This chap in the USA thought it would be a good idea to set up a web site where teachers upload their teaching materials and sell them to other teachers.

It remains to be seen whether the business will produce any significant income stream but it is an interesting idea and one which people may wish to look at in the Canadian context. I am not sure whether collective agreements for teachers/professors provide that intellectual property rights reside with the institution or the individual, but if the latter maybe someone should take a look at the idea...