Frind made just $5 in his first month, but by the end of the year, he was making more than $3,300 a month, largely by selling ads to paid dating sites that were interested in getting his unpaid members to trade up
From , his site expanded from 40 members to 10,000. Frind used his home computer as a Web server — an unusual but cost-effective choice — and spent his time trying to game Google with the tricks he picked up on the forums. In July, Google introduced a free tool called AdSense, which allowed small companies to automatically sell advertisements and display them on their websites. He quit his job.
Websites that venture capitalists would have spent tens of millions of dollars building in 1998 can now be started with tens of dollars“H ave you ever met anyone like me?” This is both a boast and a genuine question: Frind has few [...]
