After mentioning the startup Waze, recently acquired by Google, I was sent a note to take a look at the startup Wix. I was intrigued by their description of it as a means of constructing low cost web presence. A mix of blog and site and marketing presence with advertising clout.
" ... Adding to the novelty of Wix's IPO is what the company actually does. Its model is similar to Squarespace, Weebly, and even WordPress. Wix offers web hosting and drag-and-drop website design for a clientele, primarily small businesspeople, who don't want to deal with hiring a web designer or the messiness of hand-coding HTML and Javascript. It even offer its services on a freemium model--users can put their sites online for free, although they'll include advertisements for Wix's services baked into the home pages. Wix has tens of millions of users, but its still small potatoes compared to hosting giants GoDaddy and DreamHost, neither of which has filed for an IPO yet.mplemented across homes; .... "
Will take a closer look.
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