ajhaveri's link blog - startups
There's a lot of good stuff in this article. The quote i selected doesn't really do it justice, but I thought it to be one of the more important ones.
My friend Dick Costolo, co-founder of FeedBurner, describes a startup as the process of going down lots of dark alleys only to find that they are dead ends. Dick describes the art of a successful deal as figuring out they are dead ends quickly and trying another and another until you find the one paved with gold.
I like that analogy a lot. Of the 26 companies that I consider realized or effectively realized in my personal track record, 17 of them made complete transformations or partial transformations of their businesses between the time we invested and the time we sold. That means there a 2/3 chance you’ll have to significantly reinvent your business between the time you take a venture capital investment and when you\%2...
Hello, India? I Need Help With My Math - New York Times
Emerging trend that has early adopters already - "globalization of consumer services"
The second wave, according to some entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and offshoring veterans, will be the globalization of consumer services. People like Ms. Yamaki and Mr. Tham, they predict, are the early customers in a market that will one day include millions of households in the United States and other nations.
Here's a good article from ReadWriteWeb on bootstrapping. Definitely worth the quick read.
Startup Studio - Podcast Interview with Entrepreneurs
There are some great interviews here.
Biweekly podcast showcasing startup stories and inspiring entreprenurs. They did it. You can too.
DailyLit: Read books by email and RSS.
If you don't have time to read, but regularly check email, here's a great site. I've signed up to "read" Crime and Punishment
Too busy for books? Read them by email (or RSS
Stealthy Startup Mixx Launches Into Private Beta
Comment from a techcrunch article that highlights the differences between the general consumer and the tech-savvy. Again, most of these technologies will not cross the chasm because they're built for disparate audiences.
Why is that? I think that’s because the “regular” consumer doesn’t face the same amount of information overload that we, the digerati, the early adopters suffer day after day. So although the regular consumer is definitely confronting a lot more information than they were before the Internet became a medium to get “the news”, they aren’t dealing with 200 RSS feeds, so their needs to filter out news aren’t as strong as ours.
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