TAG: startups
Deal Note: Twitter's Nonexistent Business Model (Or, How to Invest in Media)
"Rather, next-gen investors are better off understanding why and how value creation and value capture will shift over the next 2-5 years - and then invest in plays which can dominate those shifts."
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Scott Rafer is Facebooking, launching Lookery
"Lookery, an ad network just for Facebook app publishers"
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25 Most Interesting VoIP Startups
"This list presents our choices for some of the most exciting VoIP companies and products to watch."
On Having Balls, Part II: Staying Hungry
"We think it takes a lot of balls to destroy what you have in order to make room for the new. Even if we fail, at least we gave it a shot. But hopefully, we won't."
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Seven Lessons Learned for Startups
"The following is a list of those quotes which were often repeated to me . . . they are the ones most significant to me and those which I believe can be generalized and applied to startup situations."
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"The right thing is to build not a bubble, with it's binary in-or-out choice, but to build a gradient, with shades of resources you make available as people achieve success."
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The Obvious Corp - Evan and Biz Take Back Odeo
The greening of The Valley, why sustainable companies matter.
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How YouTube Kicked Google's Ass (and everyone else's too)
"If you go back and look at YouTube's traffic, the day they let people embed their videos in MySpace pages is the day they took off and never looked back."
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The 20 smartest companies to start now
"Howard Schultz, Steve Case, Vinod Khosla, and other major investors are sharing their best startup ideas. And they're willing to give a collective $100 Million to the entrepreneurs who can make them happen."
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10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website
"These are the top 10 things I learned from attending the Future of Web Apps Conference 2006 in San Francisco earlier this month."
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Is The "Traditional Venture Capital Model" Broken?
"So we need a new approach to the kind of companies we fund and we need a new approach to how we fund them and how we get out of them."
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The Top 10 Questions Investors Asked Us
"If you’ve never met with angels or VCs and are curious as to what they might want to know, here is a list of the more common questions we fielded."
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Small Biz 101: No one starts with a masterpiece
"Every successful business has a dirty little secret: They didn’t know if they were going to be successful when they started."
Evan Williams, who started Blogger and now Odeo, gives some tips to potential web startups.
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10 Questions to ask yourself when you are small
Rajesh Setty: "There was a discussion a few months ago on whether being small had its advantages - agility, speed etc. My response then was that it all depends and I stick to the same opinion even today."
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Nick Denton lists the tools he uses.
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"Why should successful companies be losing their best people this way? I think there are several factors involved, but perhaps the overriding factor is the energy and creativity of formidable employees chafing against company inertia and close-mindedness.
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Companies I'd like to Profile (but don't exist)
Michael Arrington from TechCrunch thinks about the companies he'd like to see sprout up around the net. Lots of good ideas in this one.
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Scott Rafer: "A Prediction: The second DotCom Bubble will inflate and burst no later than mid-2009."
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"Digg, Memeorandum, Findory, Blogniscient, and other startups promise to manage news overload on the Web."
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10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company
"1. Solve the smallest possible problem (that is still big enough to matter) for the user and know exactly what problem you're trying to solve. "
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"These are the celebrity victims of the new-economy bust."
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How one company transforms its employees into entrepreneurs.
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It’s a great time to be an entrepreneur
Bnoopy: "There’s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur because it’s never been cheaper to be one. "
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"The success of a web service is inversely proportional to the secrecy that surrounded its development. There are exceptions of course. But I also think this can be applied to other things. Segway, anyone?"
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If You Can Make It in Silicon Valley, You Can Make It . . . in Silicon Valley Again
More talk about the internet "reboom"
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