Monthly Archives: January 2010
Can You Handle the Truth? Advice for Founders
Always tell the truth, its the easiest thing to remember. — Glengarry Glen Ross I have started my second semester at the Founder Institute, Adeo Ressi‘s awesome incubator. It has been a blast so far, in my view, a lot … Continue reading
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Twitter’s Platform Mojo
Betaworks’ John Borthwick recently posted the informative Ongoing tracking of the real time web… Combined with Fred Wilson’s AVC post Twitter v. the Twitter Ecosystem, these two posts illustrate and highlight important learnings for startups and entrepreneurs everywhere. Those learnings … Continue reading
Filed under business, marketing, social media, technology, Twitter
Google & China: An Operator’s View
Google’s announcement Tuesday that it was mad as hell and not going to take it anymore was its second bombshell in a new 2010. (I count the first being the announcement of the Nexus One, which I think is very … Continue reading
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Startup Revenue: Moats & Models
I’m giving a speech tomorrow at the Founder Showcase in Santa Clara. The topic is around building revenue for startups. The slides are here: These build on a prior talk I gave in 2009 on this topic, and I’m looking … Continue reading
Channel marketing: What all marketing people can learn from social media
Founder’s Fund’s, Internet Mastermind, and friend, Dave McClure posted one of his periodic rants over on his blog. Good read, great font colors. When I read it, it got me reflecting on the value I’ve seen as a marketing professional … Continue reading
Filed under internet, mba career advice, social media, technology
it’s a shame that ncaa coaches like carroll & calipari can trade up when their programs are under investigation for rule violations
creates a negative deterrent effect for coaches.
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though i use & love bit.ly everyday, i’m bearish on market opportunity around URL shorteners. http://bit.ly/8ILoUr via Ping.fm
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Apple’s Dr. Jeckyl & Mr. Hyde Routine with Developers Continues
TechCrunch just announced that this is the year for Flash to come to the IPhone. (Oh, wait, it’s already kind of been there with YouTube, the world’s largest flash app, for the past 2 years, but whatever.) TC’s Erick Schonfeld … Continue reading
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Shortening Shorteners
Image via Wikipedia URL Shortening services like bit.ly, ow.ly, and others have exploded recently (shortly) onto the social internet’s stage. What seemed to start as way to get links small enough to fit into a tweet or to make it … Continue reading
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The Google Phone: The Empire Strikes Back
This week, with much ballyho, Google announced its new superduperphone, the Nexus One. The product reviews are favorable, broadly speaking. This is particularly notable when one considers that it will invariably get compared with the iPhone (“have you friggin heard … Continue reading
