If you followed Rule #1 and actually started your project, chances are you’ve made some headway on down the road. Hopefully you’re on your way to a prototype or maybe you’ve even bootstrapped your way to a finish product. As such, you are likely thinking beyond self-funding your startup and would like to [...]
At present, there are more then a few sites talking about a recent video in which Robert Scoble describes how and why search engines that are created by people in one way or another, a la Mahalo and Techmeme, will overtake Google in popularity in the next 4 or 5 years.
Robert Scoble is probably a [...]
Fantastic news for everyone! Facebook has outright declared that their new advertising system will not only offer you things you want, but will also offer you things that they think you MIGHT want in the future based on the contents of your profile. HOLY CATFISH IN A CAN. Here we have a website that is [...]
I am a very vocal opponent of the “Google AdSense as business model” theory. In short, this is when someone has an idea for a website and determines that the best/only way to make money is to slap ads on it. Sure, they may find an ad network that pays well or whatever, [...]
I was doing an audit of the competition that exists for a new startup I’m working on and I was shocked to see how many players there are now in the space. When we started, it seemed like there were 3 or 4 big, established brands and then a dozen or so small entities that [...]
As I type this, I am on hold with a cable/DSL provider trying to schedule a service call. The online scheduling tool determined that I had made an error and suggested I call the main tech-support line, which I did. The dizzying number of options presented to me was staggering. Here’s the options I went [...]
From Read/Write Web…
“Google CEO Eric Schmidt was recently at the Seoul Digital Forum and he was asked to define Web 3.0 by an audience member. After first joking that Web 2.0 is “a marketing term”, Schmidt launched into a great definition of Web 3.0. He said that while Web 2.0 was based on Ajax, Web [...]
One of the great minds over at 37Signals agrees with me (or I agree with them, whatever) that Nick Gonzales’s ridiculousness over at TechCrunch is worth a good lashing. Read about it Here
I try to be a reasonable fellow, but things finally came to a breaking point this weekend at TechCrunch when an instant messaging application built for the iPhone was bashed. And why? You’re never going to believe this…
…because they are charging users for their software.
OH THE HUMANITY OF IT ALL.
The earth is [...]
If your venture ever does anything of note, you’ll likely need to retain the services of an attorney and an accountant. Of course, if you are building a startup and every penny is worth its weight in gold, you probably are trying to figure out how to balance the need for an attorney and [...]
