Posts by Dharmesh Shah

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Notes From The Web Innovators Meetup in Cambridge

January 30, 2008

I attended the Web Innovators Group meetup in Cambridge, MA tonight. I'm a long-time attender of these meetings and can remember back to when all the attendees fit in a local bar. I…

Mediocre Marketing: How NOT To Describe Your Startup

marketing January 28, 2008

I'm subscribed to a Yahoo! group that occasionally gets a post from recruiters looking for candidates for startups. Though I don't enjoy these posts (they're not relevant for me), I…

Boston Web Innovator Registration Stats (and $200 reward for trivial PHP Script)

January 27, 2008

I've been a regular attendee of the Web Innovators meetup in Boston/Cambridge for a long time. I can remember way back when all the attendees (less than 50) would fit into a bar. I…

Why Your Startup Shouldn't Hire Seth Godin

recruiting January 26, 2008

A recent article by Zoli Erdos really got me to thinking about startup hiring. The article was titled "Startups: Executive Hiring Challenges or Beware of the Suits". If you're a…

SaaS Architecture and The SaaS Maturity Model

strategy January 23, 2008

I've recently been thinking a lot and discussing with my colleagues at HubSpot the implications of Saas (Software as a Service). We're looking at this from many angles: operational…

Startup Developers: Telling Schmucks from Superstars (5 min quiz)

careers January 14, 2008

Background In the early, early days, a large part of whether a startup succeeds comes down to the founders: Do they get along? Are they committed? Are they nimble? Do they make…

11 Favorite Articles On Startups - 2007

January 2, 2008

First off, Happy New Year! I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone that has supported this blog by reading, subscribing, commenting and linking. OnStartups.com now ranks #1 on…

Hoosgot Time For Another Technorati Experiment?

December 30, 2007

I just read an article on David Sifry's blog announcing a new service called called Hoosgot. It has something to do with the LazyWeb (because that's what's being "resurrected"). I…

Startup Lawyers: When Can You Do It Yourself?

services December 17, 2007

First off, let me begin with a disclaimer: I AM NOT A LAWYER, I don't play one on TV and I don't play golf with lawyers on Sundays (I don't play golf at all). None of the content from…

LinkedIn API "Sometime Next Year": 6 Words Of Advice

development December 10, 2007

I came across on article on TechCrunch this morning announcing an update on Linkedin. I think it's great that LinkedIn is continuing to talk about an API. But, here's why I believe…

10 Reasons I Didn't Start The Bubble [with troubling but funny video]

humor December 5, 2007

Here's an exceptionally funny video about the current Web 2.0 bubble (I don't usually post YouTube videos on this blog, but this one was just too good to pass up). After the video,…