business model

Napster's Q1 2008 earnings release was filled with bad news. The company's number of paid subscribers dropped 6.8% from Q1 to 708,000. Net revenue of $30.3 million was down both sequentially and year-over-year. Net loss was down slightly both sequentially and year-over-year.

The business model of Politico doesn’t seem to be working:

I’m interupting my practice of not blogging about the launching and shuttering of magazines because news about 8020 Publishing “suspending” Everywhere Magazine is going to be interpreted in lots of different ways by those in the magazine industry — so I decided to jump in early with my

Ad-supported music has some bright spots and some low points. I'm not sure where trueAnthem ranks, but I like its business model. The startup raised $2 million and added Adidas as a sponsor.

The Death Trap
“…think about market share, business model, sustainability, and profitability which are the measures that people in most businesses tend to focus on.”

There is a growing number of online startups catering to independent musicians and searching for successful alternatives to the record label model. And the money continues to flow. But it will be a natural process of evolution for some of these startups to wither away. There will be too much money backing too many companies making too little revenue from too many unpopular artists.

It seems that when doctors themselves stop accepting insurance, their patients get better care at a more resonable cost.

• Coldplay's Viva la Vida sold over 700,000 units in its first week if release in the U.S. and about one-third were digital downloads. EMI has treated the album's release like a pop culture event and fans have responded.