The Web Quarry at Seattle’s Saltmine First of Three Parts
I first met Saltmine co-founder and CEO Jay Jarmon in the summer of 1995, an eon ago in Web time. Meeting inside his...
Leading the eCharge
While most of us were preparing to go back to school or back to work this month, opinion pollsters Yankelovich Partners released a...
Espressonow.com: Lattes at Your Desk
Ever wait in line while the person in front of you orders three tall lattes? Espressonow.com hopes to put an end to that...
ThinkView: Thinkin’ and Linkin’
Bhu Srivivasan is not your typical 23-year-old Seattle CEO on the verge of launching a blockbuster $1 billion industry. As the former ...
FizzyLab’s Sticky Proposition
Dozens of Internet startups, many of them Seattle-based, want to help the big online publishers make money (and take a cut of that,...
Qpass: Digitize & Monetize
About $5 billion worth of stuff was sold online in the first three months of 2000. And the vast majority of it was...
The Crocodile Chronicles
"Adult e-commerce," aka online pornography, is a big but nasty business that suffers from an overwhelming amount of competition and many Ponzi-like...
Things are Starting to Clique
Have you picked up a popular magazine lately? Probably not with one hand--they're so thick with ads. Now, Clique.com is offering publishers...
Online Merchants’ Little Helper
When people go to a store, they usually buy something. Not so on the Internet. Only 2% of online shoppers actually become customers....
Salesguy.com: Writing Great Fiction
"You and a client spend $200 at a strip club; how do you get your company to pick up the tab?" This is...