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Category Archives: startups
Top Five Suggestions For Entrepreneurs From IDEO
The 2008 Nantucket Conference opened up with a session led by world-class design firm IDEO. The session title was Design Thinking for Entrepreneurs: Identifying New Markets and Developing the Winning Product or Service. Although they could have designed a better … Continue reading
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Tagged contextual design, design, entrepreneurship, IDEO, Nantucket Conference, startups, Tim Brown
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Mea Culpa
I haven’t blogged in nearly two months. It’s bad form but I have been rather busy. I’m in the process of co-founding a company in San Fran which will help bloggers write more and better posts. Which makes me blogging … Continue reading
Posted in IDEO, startups
Tagged Blogging, Brand Networks, buzz marketing, BzzAgent, IDEO, KarmaLoop, startups, TripAdvisor
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Fluid Architecture or How ColdFusion 8 Won The Jolt Award For Web Development
A couple of days ago I listened with empathy as a passionate entrepreneur told the story about bootstrapping his business over many years. Like many other entrepreneurs in his situation, he had to repeatedly make micro-optimization decisions that got him … Continue reading
Posted in startups, VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
Tagged bootstrapping, ColdFusion, ColdFusion 8, fluid architecture, Jolt Award, startups, VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Web Development
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Adobe Engage 2008 To Launch Flex 3.0 and AIR
Tomorrow, at the invitation-only Engage 2008 event in SF Adobe will launch AIR and Flex 3.0. If you want to get a sense of what will be shown, here are the slides from the January pre-release tour. The event has … Continue reading
Posted in Adobe, Facebook, Flex, Google, Microsoft, startups, Web 2.0
Tagged Adobe, Adobe AIR, Adobe Flex 3, AIR, AJAX, Allurent, Engage 2008, Facebook, Flex, Flex 3, Flex Builder, Google, Industry News, Macromedia Flash, Microsoft, startups, Web 2.0
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Lessons on How to Use Amazon Web Services
From a comment on my post on the AWS outage comes a link to a great presentation on how to successfully use AWS from SmugMug founder Don MacAskill given at ETech last year.
Posted in amazon web services, startups
Tagged amazon web services, AWS, ETech, SmugMug, startups
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Amazon Web Services Outage: Causes And Remedies
If been a big fan of Amazon Web Services (AWS) because they lower the costs of startup experimentation. I’ve sponsored their events, judged their startup competition, etc. I have friends on the team. I’ve also had frank conversations with them … Continue reading
Posted in amazon web services, SaaS, startups, Web 2.0
Tagged amazon web services, AWS, EC2, outage, S3, SaaS, Salesforce, SimpleDB, SQS, startups, Web 2.0
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Consumer-Selected Sponsorship
Sponsorships are growing as an advertising concept and the most interesting sub-segment is the one where consumers select the sponsors they want to be associated with. One of our companies, AWS Convergence Technologies (the folks behind WeatherBug) was a pioneer … Continue reading
Viral Dictionary
I met the folks at Pandemic Labs a few weeks ago at a MITX event. Great small team–a technology-leveraged agency specializing in viral and social marketing. Their new site launched over the weekend and the viral dictionary caught my attention–I … Continue reading
Posted in Social Advertising, social media, startups
Tagged MITX, Pandemic Labs, Social Advertising, social media, startups, viral dictionary, viral marketing
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MIT 100K Startup Competition Kicks Off
The mother of all university startup competitions, the MIT 100K business plan competition, kicked off last night at the funky Stata Center at MIT. The competition takes three months–the finals are on May 14. I had a chance to talk … Continue reading
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Tagged MIT 100K, startups, VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
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Strategies For Startup Success
I gave at talk this morning at Yankee Group. It was part of the SmartSpeaker series that CEO Emily Green has been organizing for a few months now. Many months ago, over breakfast, Emily asked me to give a talk … Continue reading
Posted in startups, VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
Tagged bootstrapping, Esther Dyson, Flickr, fundraising, Guy Kawasaki, PayPal, Polaris Venture Partners, startups, VC, Venture Capital, Veracode, Web 2.0, Yankee Group, YouTube
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