Archive for the ‘Startups’ Category
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
[I had written a better, longer version of this but then WordPress barfed on it. Enjoy the shoddy, hastily retyped version.]
This week, more details came out about the TechCrunch extortion scandal (too boring and non-eventful to link to). The extortee Sam Odio emailed Jason Calacanis explaining that he was the ...
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
Lots of people read, liked, and shared my post about Mixergy yesterday (thanks to @prague360, @brentcapello, @kicauan, @technophilis, @antest, @monocat, of course @AndrewWarner, and others for spreading the word). The outpouring of appreciation for Andrew's work was voluminous and well deserved, and so I thought I'd add some extra thoughts ...
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
I'm a regular reader of Hacker News from the beginning. For those of you who don't know it, it's a community site where people post, vote on, and comment on links that are of interest to hackers. A corollary of that is that people want to find new stuff. For ...
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
Anyone who is doing a startup should be reading Patrick McKenzie's blog MicroISV on a Shoestring. He's an American living in Japan and in his spare time over the last few years, he has built his Bingo Card Creator product into a business that has allowed him to quit his ...
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010
[I haven't worked with ComScore but I've heard for years from a variety of sources about how their numbers are inaccurate and deflated. In a world with Google Analytics, KissMetrics, and Quantcast, the thought of chargins $10K to collect and report stats sounds like as horrible a monopoly/legacy driven ripoff ...
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
This is a repost from Jason Calacanis' mailing list. While this kind of confrontation is certainly not my style, I strongly agree with the principle. I'm glad there are people out there like Jason that don't care how dirty their hands get. Whatever you think of Jason, he is a ...
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
YCombinator and other uber-early stage investors have made a splash in the investment and startup worlds since 2005. They give a small amount of funds ($10,000-$25,000) and mentoring to get founders to build a demo/beta product in a short period of time (usually 3 months). They attract founders that are ...
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
I was fortunate this year to attend the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco. It was a little bit of an odd fit for me because GeekStack isn't ready to demo, so we weren't presenting, and in current investment circles, you need not only a proof of concept project but also ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
I just finished listening to all the back episodes of the podcast Internet Business Mastery. Since it's an old show (started in October 2005) it has been fun to watch the hosts Sterling and Jay evolve in fast-forward. They started out with a lot of enthusiasm but ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Are you in the mood for vaporware? An exciting idea? More of me talking? Then head over to my new startup GeekStack!
There's a lot more info there (really, the home page is a wall of words) but the pitch is: "Collectible trading cards with the people, events, and achievements that ...
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