What is the monetary value of one’s attention? That is the main problem MyAttn.com tries to solve. They offer an auction platform to those who have such a busy life that their inboxes fill up to a level that they’re unable to handle the load of daily messages. As a result many emails remain unread. [...]

Already from the visual appearance of this model you’ll notice that Flattr tries to work in different way. Lots of us are enjoying all the free content brought to us by all the individual online publishers. Sometimes you would feel the urge to support these people. To do so you could make use of donate [...]

You might be one of those people that walks around with a marvelous idea but never found an incentive (or pile of money) to start your project. But what if you could find a small crowd of people that could back your idea. A crowd that doesn’t only give you the needed support but that [...]

The busy holiday period is a good time to highlight one of the many charity based business models. The revenue model that is being used by these organizations is often not that complex. Many of them simply ask for a donation while others will give a commodity in return. A pencil, a plant, a newspaper [...]

Recently Scott Adam described an upcoming new way of doing business. He calls it ‘Broadcast shopping’. The main idea is that potential clients expose their intention to buy on an online platform. Clients can do this by describing their specific need or problem. On the other hand we would find companies that could provide a [...]

The new German start-up Niiu will soon launch their interpretation of a modern newspaper. Niiu readers have the possibility to select the content section of their choice. They prefer for instance the front page of The New York Times, the politics section of Tagesspiegel combined with the economic section of Handelsblatt business and select no [...]