I can't believe I forgot to follow up with this one: Remember WeblogWire, the experiment by entrepreneurs Jason Baptiste and Brian Breslin to get a profitable startup running from scratch
in one week and on $500? Well, they didn't
quite make their deadline, but they did do it for under half a grand. Yesterday WeblogWire made a "soft launch," with its official launch today, about a week behind schedule. Even at two weeks, it's an impressive feat, but what exactly is WeblogWire? Well, it's a gateway between bloggers and PM firms, allowing press releases to much more quickly make their way onto blogs, a steadily more influential corner of the media. The service is free for bloggers to join, and PR folks can submit press releases for an introductory $49 fee ($99 after this week). Right now there's already quite a few press releases on the service, which currenly only has a Technology category (which suits me just fine).
Tags: blogging, blogs, Brian Breslin, BrianBreslin, business, Jason Baptiste, JasonBaptiste, marketing, pr, press, startup, theweblogwire, weblogwire
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Subscribe to commentsv01Jul 11th 2006 2:46PM
This is pretty cool.. it would be interesting to see their actual cost breakdown for the 500 bucks.
As far as "quite a few" releases on the site... there's 5. But hey, they got half of their money back.. it's a fun project and I hope they make it work.
Brian BreslinJul 12th 2006 1:09AM
Hey, yeah, we had some issues with launching the day before 4th of july. that and the software wasn't nearly close to being complete, oops!
We're going to post a detailed breakdown of our costs, we came in under budget, so that was good. we could've saved even more, but things that need to be done that minute cost $. Check our blog later in the week if you want to see our budget break down.
thanks for the mention!
Jason L. BaptisteJul 12th 2006 4:25PM
Thanks for the mention again. Great to see the guys from download squad and weblogs inc enjoying the idea. Please let me know if you ever need anything.
-JLB