Startups

There are myriad ways to build traffic, just don’t use this one

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

There are myriad ways for you to build traffic to your website.  At a high level, you can buy advertising.  You can create something sticky that people can’t stop using.  You can create something that plays nicely with search engines and win the SEO game.  You can become a social media star, build a popular [...]

A few questions to ask yourself before undertaking anything at a startup

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

If you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m obsessed with finding ways to work faster and smarter.  I’ve talked about designing and brainstorming faster with my whiteboard and Balsamiq‘s mock up tool.  I spent over 600 words describing how I organize my email inbox, and I can’t wait for Ativiti to launch so I [...]

Enter Venture gets personal

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

I’ve been working on a longer-than-usual post recently and have felt bogged down trying to get it done.  It likely wont be longer than my typical posts in terms of word count, but it’s certainly taking longer to research as I keep stumbling upon more useful information and more products I need to test out.  [...]

Zdonk to offer film scripts for investment, ownership and professional production

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

ZDONK, an early startup set to open its doors this spring, plans to create a market for new comedy movie scripts in a step towards democratizing the movie-making and investment process.  Once enough investors purchase shares of a script, ZDONK will guarantee its production and distribution and investors will reap what the movie earns at [...]

Use the web to get off the web

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather for a few days so I’m cheating a bit and re-posting something that I originally posted to thenextweb.com.  My apologies to readers of both blogs, the Google search bots, etc. Recently, Boris over at TheNextWeb.com wrote a bit about the things he hates about the web. After [...]