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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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MySpace + Google >= Facebook?
The much expected, joked about and pre-announced MySpace developer platform is finally here. Well, not quite: As Aber mentioned, we’re currently in a sandbox phase. Here are the important points to understand about this phase: Your application profiles are private … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Media, Facebook, Google, MySpace, social media, Web 2.0
Tagged Digital Media, Facebook, Google, Industry News, MySpace, social media, Web 2.0
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Going For It
In a startup environment favoring fast, relatively cheap exits instead of building sizeable companies, it is always interesting to look at the choices startup founders and CEOs make when they have the option to sell the company or build it … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Media, startups, VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
Tagged Digital Media, startups, VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
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Mini-App Software Quality
I’m starting to believe that developers of very small applications (widgets, applets, plug-ins, etc.) are not taking software quality seriously. The fact that their own codebase is small doesn’t mean that they have fewer defects per line of code. Further, … Continue reading
OpenSocial: The Lowest Common Denominator?
Google’s OpenSocial is becoming the lowest common denominator for application integration in the social media space. That’s actually not that great for Google as it is rarely the case that the most successful applications run on the lowest common denominator … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Media, Facebook, Google, MySpace, social media, startups, Web 2.0
Tagged Digital Media, Facebook, Google, Industry News, MySpace, Social computing, social media, social networking, startups, Web 2.0, Web Services
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Amazon Web Services Startup Challenge
I’m heading to Seattle tomorrow for the AWS Startup Challenge finals. Many entered the competition with the hope of winning fame & glory, $50K in cash, $50K in AWS credit and an investment offer from Amazon (the details of which … Continue reading
Posted in amazon web services, SaaS, startups, Web 2.0
Tagged amazon web services, Polaris Venture Partners, SaaS, startups, Web 2.0
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Millions of Consumers, Millions of Channels: The Shift to Social Advertising and Social Commerce
I did a guest post at InternetEvolution titled “Viral Distribution’s Coming of Age“. The key observation is that the consumer has become the distribution channel. Millions of consumers = millions of channels. Successfully leveraging social advertising and social commerce will require … Continue reading
Posted in Social Advertising, Social Commerce, Web 2.0
Tagged Social Advertising, Social Commerce, Web 2.0, Weblogs
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Shifting The Cost/Benefit Conversation
Had a great dinner last night in the Valley with a group of founder/CEOs. At one point in the evening the conversation shifted to a topic that’s near and dear to my heart as I continually find myself challenging entrepreneurs … Continue reading
Community Service Representatives
As I was reading this WSJ article on Facebook marketing, I kept wondering about what would the the title and job description of people who will engage community members online in near real-time. In the Web 2.0 world, communities have … Continue reading
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