Do I Need SEO Even if I’m Not an Online Business?

The answer to this is,“It depends.” It depends on whether you care about growing your business or not. If you want your business to grow and succeed,then yes,you need a Web presence and you need people to be able to find you on the Web. The web IS THE WORLD!

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Cool Websites for your visual pleasure

Today,I am listing 10 online web based applications which I think is pretty cool . If you are designer,developer,office worker,manager,supervisor,student,home user,etc but we make sure to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well known but they are really amazing in respect to [...]

Y Combinator Summer 2008 Demo Day:Best Batch Ever

I just got back from Y Combinator Demo Day,Summer 2008. For a startup fanatic like me,it’s hard to imagine a more fun use of a few hours. I got to watch 20 back-to-back,rapid-fire startup demos. 

Here are some of my initial reactions and thoughts on the newest cohort of YC startups. [...]

6 Y Combinator Startups I Would Have Invested In Back Then

I have been tracking Y Combinator (a new kind of venture firm for early,early stage startups) for several years. They have a distinctive approach to the early-stage funding process and have funded some interesting companies.  YC is in the news again because of Google’s recent acquisition of Omnisio,a YC investment. 

Thinking back [...]

Spending Like Its 1999:Startup Burns $50k of VC Money on Crazy Contest

You remember 1999,right? It was the day of the sock puppet and crazy,CRAZY marketing strategies. By the way,before going too much further,I will confess that I actually bought pets.com shares back in the hey day. Why? Because everyone was doing it,and my wife and I thought the commercials was [...]

BusinessWeek On SaaS:Article Smells Like That Thing In My Refrigerator

Warning: I’m about to go on a bit of a rant. I usually only reserve these kinds of articles for when things really irritate me,and this is one of those times.  I’m generally a patient,considerate person,really I am.

Here’s the source of the most irritation I’ve felt from a technology article in a [...]

Facebook Acquires Twitter and 4 More Deals That Should Happen

Today’s big news from TechCrunch is is that Google is in the final stages of acquiring digg for about $200 million. Makes sense to me. Particularly given some of Google’s recent experiments having social voting in their search results pages.

I’d been thinking about startup acquisitions earlier this year (and started keeping a side list [...]

Why You Should Attend Business of Software 2008 In Boston

If you read this blog,there’s a pretty good chance you’re somehow involved in the business of software. By that,I mean you are trying to (gasp!) make money in the software business. If that’s the case,I can’t think of any better place to be this September than the Business of Software Conference [...]

Embarassingly Gushing Praise for TechCrunch And The New CrunchBase API

For those that are nauseated or otherwise troubled by gushing praise of tech blogs,please click away now. I will not be offended.

I’m an avid reader of the TechCrunch blog. In their own words,it’s a blog “dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies.” If you’re in the startup [...]

Startup Hiring:An Entrepreneur Disagrees With Entrepreneur Magazine

I recently came across an article in Entrepreneur magazine that talks about startup hiring mistakes. I don’t know Brad Sugars (the author),but he’s a columnist at Entrepreneur magazine and has written 14 books. Though I’m impressed by the fact that he’s a published author,I disagree with several points from the article. 

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