"Religion is like underwear. When worn on the inside, it supports you; it comforts you. When its worn on the outside it's bad manners. When it's covering your head, you just look stupid."
-Todangst
"Religion is like underwear. When worn on the inside, it supports you; it comforts you. When its worn on the outside it's bad manners. When it's covering your head, you just look stupid."
-Todangst
-Todangst
End of an Era
Grant and I have decided to liquidate Eidoan Trading Strategies, Inc., the company that we set up in August 2004. StockWeblog.com will be turned over to my new company, Hill Seven, Inc.
This was a tough decision, but it will allow me not to have to take care of accounting and other records for two different companies and Grant will be able to focus more on his new Mattermind project. We will both also be getting about $2,500 (before taxes) from the money that is left over after we completely shut down Eidoan Trading. Since we both only put in about $200 to start this company, 1,150% is not a bad ROI for 32 months, I guess.
I know Hill Seven and Mattermind will do much better though. :)
17th February 2007 at 11:32 am | Hill Seven, Inc.
Hill Seven, Inc. is now an officially registered corporation. I got the paperwork last night and this morning I got the EIN and opened a business bank account. So I have spend a great deal of time the rest of the day setting up other necessary items.
I have been planning this since October and now it is finally real.
The Internet Will Make Everything Free - Introduction
I am constantly amazed by how many things are now available for free on the internet that you once had to pay a lot of money for. Maybe the quality is not always as good but it’s usually pretty close. I think that two major things have caused this 1) open source programs and 2) need for more website traffic.
1) Linux has been driving open source as a concept, and while I have been (until recently) very skeptical of open source programming, I now see that this can create some very useful applications. This blog, and all of the Hill Seven sites are created in WordPress, which is an open-source project.
2) “Free” is a powerful marketing tool. We all know this. All things equal, if you needed a product or service and you found out you could get it for free from a company you are not familiar with when you’ve been paying a lot of money to a well established company, there’s a good chance you’ll at least try the new way. There are two good examples of this. Most people use Microsoft Office, but Microsoft charges hundreds of dollars for this software. Open Office is one free alternative to this. I have not used it yet myself, but I plan on trying it soon. Google is also making their own web-based office suite. It does not yet have all the functions of MS Excel or Word, but I am sure their plan is to get their eventually.
Anyway, I find this topic interesting and I plan to write about the various sites that are a part of this idea in future posts on this blog.
SurpassHosting.com
After using several different hosts over the years, I have finally found one that I am completely happy with, SurpassHosting.com. Thanks to the recommendation of a friend, I set up StockWeblog.com on a Surpass Hosting “shared” account in late October and found the connection to be excellent and the support staff very helpful. I have since signed up for a VPS server from them and now host all my sites on it.
Over the last three months, I have sent the support staff a variety of different questions or requests for help on different things. Every time, either the Senior Engineer Davie or one of the other support people have emailed me back within a few hours with a thorough answer to my problem.
Their most basic shared plan is only $6/month but they also offer VPS servers (what I have) as well as dedicated servers, reseller plans and co-location. And as I have stated, their quality is better than any other host I have ever used. So I would highly recommend them for any one’s hosting needs.