15 Signs your Internet Business Idea Might Fail

15> Postage costs seem to be keeping the customers away from EngineOverhaul.com.

14> The only "development" to come out of IT is a 3rd place finish in the World Solitair Championship.

13> The company web server is frequently offline because your mom needs the phone to call her Avon customers.

12> You go through cash faster than a whale goes through plankton.

11> Monday: Founders wearing hip, retro bowling shirts. Tuesday: Founders wearing Taco Bell uniforms.

10> Your flagship website? www.queenmumnekkid.com

9> Long-term strategic plan includes a winter invasion of Russia and a protracted ground war in Southeast Asia.

8> Difficult to draft a good business plan for www.venturecapitalistsmustdie.com.

7> Good news: Company employees never play Solitaire or Doom. Bad news: Non-stop network games of Candy Land.

6> Mounting complaints that by the time FedEx delivers it, your eBreakfast French toast is soggy.

5> Your war veteran CEO goes ballistic whenever anyone says "VC."

4> Your company name: Creative Response Analysis Protocols; Your NYSE symbol: CRAP

3> Nothing but empty pages in your business plan between "Buy a Porsche" and "Spank Gates' bare ass with a hickory switch."

2> Apparently, there already *is* a web site that sells travel.

1> Your business plan lists "Free Kool-Aid" as both an employee perk and an exit strategy.