Archive for May 22nd, 2008

Sean Kelly, over at Franchise Pick, did some more investigating and found more wine franchises that you might be interested in. He comments on:

The Grape
Rosevine Winery
(formerly “Let’s Make Wine”)
Vino 100, and
Winestyles

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been at a variety of tech conferences. And there was one question that kept coming up: What do you think of Twitter?

The site, which allows for microblogging, is definitely a growing brand. It’s cool technology.

But I don’t really know the utility of the service. In fact, many of the people I talked to concurred.

Yet, it doesn’t seem to matter much. This week, Twitter raised a cool $15 million (according to a report in GigaOm). The valuation? $80 million.

Interestingly enough, Twitter has had some issues with its performance (for example, there have been some outages). Then again, some of its users are constantly typing away on the service - which puts a lot of strain on the infrastructure.

But, I’m still skeptical. How many people have the time to microblog about minute-by-minute details of their lives? And who really cares?

Essentially, I think Twitter is addressing a niche market - not something that will ultimately become mainstream.

Tom Taulli is the author of various books, including The Complete M&A Handbook and The Edgar On the internet Guide to Decoding Financial Statements. He also operates MergerBook.com.

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Certainly in the last few years wine lovers have known to look to Chile for excellent wines that rival the Napa Valley but at bargain prices. It seems the same could be said for wine real estate. Vina La Playa is a boutique resort located in the Colchagua Valley an area considered to be the Chilean Napa Valley. The area is experiencing a tourist surge and has museums, a wine train, a casino and a beach that attracts windsurfers. The Chilean style hacienda has 11 bedrooms, kitchen, dining room, staff quarters and more. The lot is 22 acres with seven acres of of that devoted to vineyards. This property is listed at $1.7 million.

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