Dave Lu, CEO of FanPop.com was part of a panel at the Churchill club recently – a previous entry has the video. I loved an analogy he made: That the leap of faith you take as an entrepreneur is a lot like a scene from Indiana Jones. Here’s the scene: I love what he does […]
July 18, 2007 | Startups | No comments
I found this awesome vid on Guy Kawasaki’s blog. It’s a panel session with Markus Frind, Founder, PlentyofFish.com and James Hong, Co-Founder, HotorNot.com and a few others. Markus Frind is my personal hero and much of the reason I have an aversion to VC money. This is more than an hour long, so when you’re […]
July 18, 2007 | Startups | No comments
I’m at open coffee this morning at Lousa’s Coffee shop in Seattle – here early to get some reading in. Come down if you’re free this morning. There’s going to be an awesome group of entrepreneurs and innovators here from 8:30 until everyone leaves (usually after 10:30).
July 17, 2007 | Innovation, Startups | No comments
I’ll often find myself chatting about choice of technology with fellow entrepreneurs and invariably it’s assumed the new web app is going to be developed in Rails. I don’t know enough about Rails to judge it’s worth. I do know that you can develop applications in Rails very quickly and that it scales complexity better […]
July 17, 2007 | Code, Startups, Technology | No comments
I run two consumer web businesses. LineBuzz.com and Geojoey.com. Both have more than 50% of the app impelemented in Javascript and execute in the browser environment. Something that occurred to me a while ago is that, because most of the execution happens inside the browser and uses our visitors CPU and memory, I don’t have […]
July 16, 2007 | Code, Innovation, Startups, Technology | No comments
In an earlier post I suggested that too much competitive analysis too early might be a bad idea. But it got me thinking about the tools that are available for gathering competitive intelligence about a business and what someone else might be using to gather data about my business. Archive.org One of my favorites! Use […]
July 16, 2007 | SEO, Startups, Technology | No comments
Just a tiny bit of wisdom I picked up along the way. As always, I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. If you’re selling your business, you’re going to be handed an M&A agreement. That agreement is probably going to have something like 15 pages of representations and warranties – things […]
July 15, 2007 | Startups | No comments
Creating your own startup is easy. You don’t need an MBA. You don’t need an expensive law firm. You don’t need an ‘older more mature CEO’ to hold your hand. And if you can afford 6 months without an income and $5k to get started, you might not even need a VC or Angel investor. […]
July 14, 2007 | Startups | 1 comment