Part 2 of 5
What were the start-up costs of each of the 20 most visited social websites?

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Request for Question Clarification by czh-ga on 05 May 2006 15:56 PDT

Hello lacam-ga,

I see that bobbie7-ga has answered your first question on Social
Networking Websites and listed the top 14 companies. Do you want
researchers to use this list of companies for your questions 2-5 that
follow through on this topic? Thanks.

~ czh ~

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Clarification of Question by lacam-ga on 05 May 2006 16:25 PDT

yes , but please add these additional sites to make it 21 , as requested:
Delicious
Flickr
Technorati
LinkedIn
Craiglist
Youtube
foodcandy.com

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Request for Question Clarification by czh-ga on 05 May 2006 21:21 PDT

Hello again lacam-ga,

You got a quick answer to your first question but I don't think you'll
get answers to you four other questions because of the prices you've
set. You're asking for at least 21 pieces of information on each of
them and some of them will require several items for each of the 21
companies you're interested in. As a new user of Google Answers, I
suggest that you review these links.

http://answers.google.com/answers/faq.html
http://answers.google.com/answers/pricing.html

As you can see, researchers get 75 per cent of the price posted.
You're offering less than 40 cents per company on this question. In
addition, the information you're looking for is not likely to be
readily avaialable and will take some digging.

I'd love to work on your question but I'm afraid your price is simply
not attractive enough. I suggest that you either adjust your
expectations or change the price of this question -- as well as the
other three relating to this subject.

All the best.

~ czh ~

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Clarification of Question by lacam-ga on 06 May 2006 05:59 PDT

Czh

Thank you.  I changed my price parameters.  I will tip also
if I am happy with the answers.

lacam

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Request for Question Clarification by czh-ga on 06 May 2006 09:14 PDT

Hello again lacam-gam

I wish you well for your project but even your new price is way too
low for the amount of effort that will be required to answer this
question. There is no list or database of "startup costs for x type of
compnies" and a researcher will have to conduct a search for each of
the 21 companies you've identified. In addition, most of these
companies are either private or still in startup phase and the
information will be simply unavailable. Less than a dollar per company
is underestimating the difficulty of the task.

I wish you well for your project.

~ czh ~