Web 2.0 Valuations and the Google PageRank
October 20, 2006
I posted an article earlier today on the Small Business 2.0 internet marketing blog titled “Understanding Google PageRank”. Most of the OnStartups readership is likely already…
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Disagreeing With Paul Graham: How Not To Pick A Platform
startup October 17, 2006
I am one of the many thousands of raving Paul Graham fans out there. I’ve read most of his content (Paul doesn’t write blog articles, he writes essays). He is clearly a very gifted…
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Six Interesting Stats About Startup Success
startup October 16, 2006
This weekend, I reviewed a recent paper titled “Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital: Evidence From Serial Entrepreneurs” by Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner…
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Startup Competition: Are Today's Venture Funded Rivals Savvier?
October 13, 2006
This is a follow-up to my article earlier this week titled “Competing With Venture Funded Rivals”. In response to that article, I received several comments. The following are two…
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Startups: Competing With Venture Funded Rivals
startup October 10, 2006
All of my prior startup experience has been with bootstrapped startups (i.e. no VC funding). As such, I’ve had to deal the situation where I found myself competing with rivals that…
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RSS As Competitive Analysis Tool
startups October 9, 2006
I posted a blog article this morning on our partner internet marketing blog (Small Business 2.0) titled “Understanding RSS: A Quick Guide For The Insanely Busy Executive”. I’m…
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Top 7 Reasons You Won't Vote This Article Up
reddit October 7, 2006
Most of my articles at OnStartups get posted to one or more of the popular social book-marking websites (Digg, Reddit, etc.) by one of the regular readers. A large part of the reason…
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Beware The Web 2.0 Walking Dead
startups October 6, 2006
Back in Bubble 1.0, um, I mean Web 1.0, when a startup failed to take off, it generally died a relatively clean and definitive death. We all knew the company was dead because the…
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The Most Important Feature Missing In The Google Search API
hubspot October 5, 2006
At my startup, HubSpot, we have been working with the Google Search API to implement some of the features we think would help our customers. The Search API is reasonably robust in…
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Selling Technology To Small Business: 7 Insights From Top Innovators
sales October 4, 2006
I had the opportunity today to attend a conference held by Longworth Ventures Partners. Longworth is a VC firm here in the Boston area. The most interesting session of the conference…
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Startup Opportunities: Second Order Effects Of The Internet
October 2, 2006
Brian posted a recent article to Small Business 2.0 titled “Four Ways the Internet Is Transforming Small Business”. (The SB2 site is a partner site to this one and I co-author…
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