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March 21, 2010 (yesterday)
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This is part of my ongoing series on Startup Advice
Large companies can be strange sometimes. As startup entrepreneurs we all want to work with them because having their name as reference clients makes it so much easier for marketing, PR, selling...
March 17, 2010
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Los Angeles. People either love it our hate it. All the stereotypes and caricatures are overblown. And were left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. We have an...
March 15, 2010
GigaOM
Earlier this morning during a keynote at SxSW, Twitter CEO and co-founder Evan Williams announced the availability of Twitters @Anywhere platform. It is an identity system and is widely viewed as an answer to Facebook Connect. It allows Twitter su...
Quick, picture a tech startup founder: Are they male, maybe around 27 years old, a resident of Silicon Valley? Apparently thats what it takes to build a tech startup for a seed incubation program, at least according to the explicit and implicit wi...
March 11, 2010
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Yesterday I wrote a post about how much capital your startup should raise. In that post I was talking about how it is a bad strategy to be underfunded. In general when capital is available take it (provided its on the right conditions and from t...
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This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital.
Recently Ive been debating with a number of young startup companies that are raising money in the next few months, what is the right about of capital to raise at a startup?
Its a tricky...
March 10, 2010
GigaOM
One of the more solid and genuinely useful Internet startups out there, travel fare aggregator Kayak, was dissected in a report released today by NeXt Up Research for SharesPost. NeXt Up thinks that with a heavy advertising spend, Kayak should hav...
Not too long ago, Toyota reigned as the seemingly untouchable hybrid leader. That dominance in terms of both market share (50 percent of hybrids sold in the U.S.) and mindshare (no alt-fuel vehicle on the market is better known or more widely rec...
Foursquare, the New York-based location services startup, has more than 500,000 users and 1.4 million venues, it announced today, one year after it launched at SXSW. The company says it had its biggest day ever last Friday, with 275,000 check-ins ...
The iPhone has a number of advantages over its smartphone competitors, but one thing it hasnt had that users have been clamoring for is true multitasking. Push notifications were intended as a workaround designed to give users the ability to stay up-to-date with multiple apps without having to actually run them at the same time.
Its still only a partial solution, though, and one many iPhone users arent satisfied with. True multitasking is still high on the want list of many iPhone users, and really remains...
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Microsoft faces a tough assignment in trying to get back in the smartphone game. Nokias Symbian maintains a massive presence in overseas markets, while Apples iPhone and Googles Android have gained tremendous momentum in the superphone era. And Wi...
Betaworks, a New York City-based Internet company, has raised $20 million in new venture funding, according to company executives. Intel Capital and previous investor RRE Ventures led the current round, which included Softbank, Founders Collective...
Leading up to South by Southwest my inbox has been littered with friend requests on Gowalla, a check-in service that I can use to show those friends where I am at any point in time. Underneath each request is a line that reads: We recommend you ac...
When iTunes web preview pages first appeared for songs and albums the industry was abuzz with the possibility that iTunes could be migrating to the cloud. iTunes preview has so far had little impact on how we use purchased media content, but it ...
Verizon Wireless will bring its first 4G handsets to market by the middle of 2011, CTO Anthony Melone said in a Wall Street Journal piece (hat tip Engadget). But using those super-fast Long Term Evolution phones is going to cost you.
We learned l...
We know there are lot of entrants in the group deals space see my recent piece, Groupon and the Wannabes but now the competitors are seriously bulking up. LivingSocial which has more than a million daily email subscribers is today announcing i...
Digg, the San Francisco-based social media company, is dropping MySQL and instead betting its future on Cassandra, an open-source data store. Its just the latest sign of the growing popularity of the software, which was developed (and open sourced...
Faced with declining revenues and increasingly dismal prospects, some mainstream media outlets are adopting questionable tactics, specifically dead-end web pages stuffed with outbound links and pay-per-click ads. A liberally funded LA startup is ...
The future of media will be information consumed on superphones while on the go, said Rob Glaser, chairman of RealNetworks, today in his first public speech since stepping down from his CEO position. In the speech, given in Seattle at a Mobile Bro...
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According to Google Reader, we write 2 blog posts a week. And according to TweetStats we write 73 tweets a week.
If you only read our blog, youre missing the great links we post on Twitter. We take the same care with our tweets that we do with our...
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File this under entrepreneurial advice
I know that this will sound like a random post topic for startup advice but I promise its relevant. You actually need to give advice to nearly every employee whom you offer a job to on how to best quit their...
March 8, 2010
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I guess lets file this under sales & marketing advice.
I recently wrote a piece for Mashable on how to create a company blog. Since its already written (and since I promised not to republish on my blog other than a summary) if youre intereste...
Ive been enjoying using Plancast over the past month or so. Im not an investor and though I wouldnt rule it out in the future Im not currently looking at the company.
Just wanted to get that out of the way up front so I wont look like a vested-i...
March 7, 2010
GigaOM
Do you feel that Internet access is a fundamental right? Four in five adults in more than 26 different countries agree with you, according to a new poll sponsored by the BBC World Service. The poll asked more than 27,000 adults about their attit...