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Yep… that’s me on CNBC’s “Squawk on the...

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:03:55 -0400

Yep… that’s me on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street”

“Do or Do not. There is no Try.” via Flowing Data.

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:37:52 -0400

“Do or Do not. There is no Try.”

via Flowing Data.

startupquote: When something really shitty happens we try not...

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 05:45:10 -0400

startupquote:

When something really shitty happens we try not to take it personally, figuring that tomorrow is another day.

- Mike Hudack

"While I promised them I wouldn’t say here what they’re doing, I can tell you that it..."

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:56:04 -0400

“While I promised them I wouldn’t say here what they’re doing, I can tell you that it fits perfectly with what they’ve already done. They’re going to have an unfair advantage in building it because their current users already want it, it aligns with their brand, it matches their skill set as a team, and it fits the the general vision they sold to their investors. And yet, it’s not some trivial optimization. It’s a 15 degree pivot that allows them to leverage their earlier work for a much bigger opportunity. It’s a veer.”

- from Jason Freedman’s awesome article on pivots including Speakergram’s recent ~~pivot~~ veer.

How to get a job at a startup if you aren’t a developer

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:33:01 -0400

How to get a job at a startup if you aren’t a developer:

Very interesting advice from Eric Stromberg particularly “When I was searching for a startup job I got some good advice: Any startup job you find on a job board will be one you don’t want.”

How To Sustain Momentum After Startup Success

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:51:07 -0400

How To Sustain Momentum After Startup Success:

I particularly like the quote: “We see a lot of startups that feel as though the first taste of success is the finish line. In reality, that’s when the hard part begins!”

"Markets develop for a complex set of factors that are often beyond all of our control. It is often..."

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:39:53 -0400

“Markets develop for a complex set of factors that are often beyond all of our control. It is often the fortuitous mixture of new technologies, customer awareness and then acceptance of the technology and then the slow adoption into our daily lives that leads to markets exploding. Nascent startup markets are like fine wine, they take time to develop.”

- From Mark Suster’s excellent “9 women can’t make a baby in a month” article.

"People who build companies to flip are essentially base jumping without a parachute"

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:04:33 -0400

“People who build companies to flip are essentially base jumping without a parachute”

- from Startup Economics 101

Great talk about getting started and dealing with the...

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:44:28 -0400

Great talk about getting started and dealing with the Chicken-and-Egg adoption problem by Brian Chesky of AirBnB.

I particularly like Paul Graham’s advice to AirBnB: “Go to your users!”.

startupquote: People are not good at expressing their...

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:40:15 -0400

startupquote:

People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.

- Chris Hughes

"One reason that so many startups flock to SXSW is that it’s a great opportunity to meet potential..."

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:27:56 -0400

“One reason that so many startups flock to SXSW is that it’s a great opportunity to meet potential investors. Now, well-known VC firm Union Square Ventures, SoundCloud and The Next Web are offering a chance to give a pitch with a difference.”

- Pitch your startup to a Union Square Ventures VC at SXSW with The Next Web

Excited to see how this turns out. If you’re pitching your startup at #SXSW, make sure to catch Albert in an elevator near you. Click through to learn how to participate.
(via david-noel)

As I was just lamenting with a fellow startup-focused MBA...

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:30:06 -0400

As I was just lamenting with a fellow startup-focused MBA classmate, our Twitter streams are making us very envious of everyone at SXSW (particularly during a morning spent learning about multiple regression).

Appsumo's awesome Lean Startup SXSW bundle

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Appsumo's awesome Lean Startup SXSW bundle:

Appsumo has teamed up with over 20 web service providers, including LessAccounting, Postmark, launchbit, KISSMetrics and Crazyegg, to provide an awesome bundle of lean startup goodness worth over $5,000… for just $99!

If you run a web business you should buy this deal NOW!

Great video highlighting the immigration challenges faced by...

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:30:47 -0500

Great video highlighting the immigration challenges faced by foreign entrepreneurs in the US and making a strong case for the Startup Visa (featuring interviews with Ben Way, Brian Wong and Augusto Marietti).

This video has been around for a while now but, after seeing...

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:35:46 -0500

This video has been around for a while now but, after seeing Grasshopper’s CEO David Hauser speak (and show the video) at this weekend’s SuperConf2011 conference, I couldn’t resist posting it again.

Also check out the great content and words of wisdom on David’s tumblog here.

How I'll be spending my next two days... SuperConf2011

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:10:17 -0500

How I'll be spending my next two days... SuperConf2011:

SuperConf is brand new. SuperConf is where kick-ass new companies launch. SuperConf is where speakers blow your mind, 8 times in one day. SuperConf is the culmination of great speakers, awesome companies, amazing patrons & shots of patron. SuperConf is in Miami, Beach!

Moral => you probably use Pie Charts too much!

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:26:20 -0500

Moral => you probably use Pie Charts too much!

"It’s been a big month for news about personalized news (and February isn’t even half over). You’d..."

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:43:26 -0500

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It’s been a big month for news about personalized news (and February isn’t even half over). You’d think a startup like DailyMe with several years invested in building and evolving its Newstogram platform for dynamic personalization would want to keep the space to itself, but we’re excited that so many others are deciding to enter the fray. It validates the importance of delivering personally relevant news experiences to each user in a digital world and it demonstrates the power of participating in our network approach vs. the cost and effort of building a standalone system yourself.

Among the latest to announce or launch personalized news products:

The New York Times quietly rolled out a page of “Articles Recommended for You.” So far, I haven’t seen any promotion of it on the main site, just news coverage of it. If you visit the page, you’ll need to log in, view several articles and wait a day for recommendations to appear. My experience has been that most of the recommendations are on target with my interests, but today’s top pick was “Museum and Gallery Listings” even though my interests displayed on the right were all technology, business and sports related, with not a hint of arts. Perhaps that’s why it’s still kept low key.

The Washington Post let out some details of a new site called Trove, though it’s still in private beta and supposedly won’t launch until next month. Coverage in The Wall Street Journal noted: “Media executives say the holy grail of online news is a service that tailors the experience to each reader as effectively as sites like Amazon and Pandora do for books and music.” It also noted that “news is more difficult than other products to gear to individual preferences.” I couldn’t agree more. The project reportedly has a development team of 20 people and the company is investing $5 million to $10 million. The article didn’t say if that includes the cost of its purchase iCurrent last year.

A bit more vaporware-ish (launch targeted at “first half of the year”) is the Yahoo! announcement of “Livestand.” The project is described as a publishing platform for mobile devices that will be offered to other publishers as well as present Yahoo! content. Like other efforts, Yahoo! also claims it will be personalized based on the kinds of content you consume, much as the Yahoo! home page is tailored to each user’s interests. While this might work well for Yahoo! content, I’ll be interested to see if other publishers want their articles mixed into a personalized blend of news from different sources or if they prefer to keep their content within a walled garden.

The NYT and Post seem intrigued enough by personalized news that they are hedging their bets on their own efforts and investing in other similar projects. Both are investors in Ongo, a paid iPad app that is both customizable (user must create topics of interest) and ad-free. The Times also spun off a social-stream-based personalization project called News.Me into Betaworks, which is building it out for release soon.

And its not just the big players who are expanding their personalized offerings. My6Sense, which already has a neat iPhone app that tailors your RSS and social feeds using “digital intuition,” announced a Chrome browser extension that uses a similar approach to prioritize your Twitter stream.

If I wake up tomorrow to even more announcements of personalized news products, I guess I won’t think it’s Ground Hog Day all over.

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- From @neilbudde’s recent blog post over on Newstogram.com.

Biz Stone: “We want to get the right tweets to the right...

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:45:04 -0500

Biz Stone: “We want to get the right tweets to the right people at the right time with improved relevance”.

Me: “Can’t wait!”

From Mark Suster’s brilliant guest post on Techcrunch...

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:51:55 -0500

From Mark Suster’s brilliant guest post on Techcrunch about whether you should be a startup entrepreneur.