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
I recently guest blogged an entry titled the long tail approach to SEO on a friends new blog. It’s based on some of my own experience and was inspired by a post on webmasterworld from someone who is about to exceed 1 million uniques from SEO with around 100k pages of content, which isn’t much […]
July 14, 2007 | SEO | No comments
When we launched LineBuzz on May 10, we had no idea that most of our press coverage was going to be Japanese. A site called 100Shiki.com put us up as dot-com of the day. All of a sudden we had lots of Japanese users. A few days later, a very popular blogger in China gave […]