Tag: startups
Sing.ly where Local Apps Compete on Value not Network Lock In
Introspection 18 months later, are you an entrepreneur?
If you’re planning on building a business, at some point in your life you’ve gotta ask yourself a few hard questions:
What do people usually do after they run a failed startup?
This morning’s riff is an answer to a Quora question, and while Roger Ehrenberg gave a rich answer*, it felt good to contribute my own perspective. (more…)
Sharp start for Sunnytrail
Sunnytrail is a new service dedicated to tracking business transactions (revenue, churn, lifetime value, arpu) through an API, and helping web companies focus on developing their own products instead of rewriting tracking utilities.
Why Startups hit a Cash Impasse after Growth
One of the major risks for startups is failing to (sufficiently) monetize. App developers and service providers have a variety of methods for generating revenues at their disposal, but depending on the market, competitor pricing, and customer need, struggle to generate sufficient revenue for growth or even maintenance.
Entrepreneurship !== Management
For the most part I appreciated Eric Ries’ year end summary, from his discussion of hacking MBA programs and his work launching the Startup Lessons Learned Conference. But there are a couple of his thoughts I shook my head while reading.
Quora, an iteration on web forums
A few of my favorite tech bloggers have reviewed the question and answer service Quora, and overall it has received high marks. Mark Suster started it off back in August, Robert Scoble, Mahendra Palsule, and Louis Gray chimed in recently. All of these gents have discussed Quora in a positive light. The site features answer voting, tagging of questions, and comments. The service provides a topic follow model in addition to following specific users, and updates participants with configurable emails.
The Rejected
I shit you not, it’s December 2010
Wild Web Projects and Attention Black Holes turn into Time Warps
It feels like only yesterday I was harping about how cool it would be if social communication platforms advertised serendipitously to the browser and not just page context or a single search. But that was the summer of 2009, and I experienced my first hit of raw building fanaticism. I had no idea where to begin without a shred of web dev experience.