Business Talk | Domain Investor and SEO Expert http://digitaldrew.org Andrew Wietlispach Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:14:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Business Talk | Domain Investor and SEO Expert http://digitaldrew.org/business-talk/google-investing-zynga/ http://digitaldrew.org/business-talk/google-investing-zynga/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:14:29 +0000 admin http://digitaldrew.org/?p=54 Most people have at least heard of the popular Myspace and Facebook game Farmville. That game was created and produced by a company called Zynga. Nobody is completely sure if Google purported $100 million investment into Zynga but it certainly wouldn’t surprise me. It has seamed real enough to raise a few eyebrows considering $100 million is not a small chunk of change, not even for Google.

This looks to me like Google may have some ideas of jumping into the facebook advertising game. Not a bad idea really, and knowing Google they won’t just dabble their feet in it – they will go all the way. The one thing I’m a little curious about is why Google didn’t just buy Zynga outright?

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  • Getting loans for projects – You may want to try and expand your business. Expanding costs money and with a registered business you can look into getting a small business loan.
  • Protection of personal assets – Remember, when you run a business you are responsible for that business. Should something happen and someone takes you to court for whatever reason you can lose your assets. This means your car, house, paychecks..etc. By registering a business you are protecting your personal assets incase something should happen.

Believe me, before I incorporated for the first time I thought it was going to be the hardest thing I ever did. Thankfully, there are sites out there like MyCorporation and LegalZoom which basically do all the paperwork for you and make it quite simple to incorporate your small online business.

]]> http://digitaldrew.org/business-talk/incorporating-is-not-that-difficult/feed/ 1 Business Talk | Domain Investor and SEO Expert http://digitaldrew.org/business-talk/my-first-official-net-project/ http://digitaldrew.org/business-talk/my-first-official-net-project/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:35:05 +0000 admin http://digitaldrew.org/?p=28 I took a Visual Basic class back in college and it’s been forever since I’ve played in this event driven environment. However, my father and I finally decided to get our first official VB .NET application underway. This program has been an excellent project for both of us and is coming along rather well. ATGrabber is going to be an addon tool that works hand in hand with SpectraVue. SpectraVue is a peice of beacon radio software that works with SDR-IQ’s (Software Defined Radios) to capture signals sent out from beacons all over the planet. We hope to support a number of other radio software packages in the second version but version 1 itself has taken a bit longer to finish than we anticipated. We are hoping to have it launched and available for purchase by the beginning of March.

If all goes well and ATGrabber is a hit be sure to keep an eye out for a number of other applications we will be working on putting together.

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