I’m actually a pretty big believer in the loco idea that Facebook has the opportunity to erode the market-share of the major web properties (Google, Yahoo, MSN) by virtue of their new open F8 platform. Allowing developers the chance to get in front of your massive audience instead of having to build their own is [...]
Relax, Ferris. I’m not trying to rain on your little startup parade. This will all make sense shortly. But I’m being serious. People that are more positive and cheery then I would probably use a word like “change” instead of “ruin,” but that would be dishonest. And if anything, I’m [...]
Perfect timing:! I looked down at my Feedburner button thingamajig yesterday morning and I have a subscriber. Woo-nelly-hoo. Take that all you blogs with no audience!
Anyway, this coincides with the second half of the “There are no ‘Big’ problems post”, which I have cleverly titled “There are no ‘Small’ successes.”
When starting a [...]
This post qualifies as “pointing out the obvious” so I hardly expect it to seem noteworthy to you. That said, sometimes the obvious needs to be staring at you through your computer screen, so I’ve decided to spell it out.
The best way to kill your startup is to never launch it. Period. [...]
When you are building a startup or trying to launch a business, it’s likely that you have considered some of the major risks and challenges you are likely to face. The more of these potential roadblocks you can identify ahead of time, the better prepared you will be when you finally come up against some [...]
If anyone is working on a project and would like a little publicity (and I mean A LITTLE), send it along and I’d be happy to post about it here. The difference between a “Techstbooks startup review” and a review found at one of the many fluff sites out there is that I promise to [...]
“A ‘job’ makes you money when you are working at it. A ‘business’ makes you money when you are not.”
- A bunch of people
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So, are you building a business or creating a job?
Before you answer, let it be known that I’m not asking with the sort of snobbery I usually find associated with the quote [...]
I am surprised at how little attention the gulf between “tech-savvy” folks and non-techies receives. I’m even more surprised at how little distinction is made between the two major functions of search engines: “search” and “discovery” and how they relate to who is really using computers, both now and in the future.
First, some clarification…
“Search” [...]
Kevin over at “A Startup A Day” was nice enough to read some of the posts here after I had stumbled upon his blog. As I write this entry, Kevin’s RSS tracker shows he has 9 readers, which is 9 more then we have here, so I certainly appreciate the publicity.
If startup brainstorming is [...]
Owen Thomas from Valleywag had this to say…
“Insiders like to talk about how Google, now that it’s a big company, is getting “complicated.” I don’t think it’s that complicated: If Larry Page and Sergey Brin ever really solved the search problem, as they’ve been promising to do for a decade, they wouldn’t have a multibillion-dollar [...]
