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
“You don’t write because you want to say something: you write because you’ve got something to say.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald. Next time I’ll have something to say.
July 16, 2007 | Randomness | 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
Since I relaunched my blog on Saturday I’ve had 432 page views. So if I’d been really smart and put AdSense on the blog… At 0.30 CPC with a 2% Click thru rate I’d have earned a grand total of $2.59. Almost the price of a latte. UPDATE: I installed adsense. My goal: to earn […]
July 16, 2007 | Randomness | 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
Many entrepreneurs, particularly the MBA set, start with competitive analysis. Sure, it’s a valid approach and you might find a gap in the market that you can easily fill or a product or service that could do with some improvement. But if Larry and Sergei did that before they started playing with the PageRank algorithm, […]
July 15, 2007 | Innovation | 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
I just noticed one of my youtube videos has over 20,000 views. I put it together a while ago using windows movie editor and a flash ripper. The soundtrack is Breaking Benjamin, Blow me Away. The tube is at Teahupoo and is one of the biggest ever ridden. The human glider is in Verbier, Switzerland […]
July 15, 2007 | Randomness | 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