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6 posts categorized "Startups"

July 27, 2007

The title of this blog

It was really hot and I had the air-conditioner blasting. I forgot to turn it off, so there's background noise in this video. I apologize!

   

Service Businesses...

June 04, 2007

Startup Concept | Why I'm Starting a Company | Am I Looking For Funding

In these videos I answer questions relating to my startup. There are three videos posted here:

1. The startup concept
2. Why I'm starting a company
3. Am I looking for funding







May 28, 2007

Would you have invested?

I found this picture on http://objectsworld.blogspot.com/ and absolutely love it. People like to discuss the perils of being too young or too old or too female, etc., but obviously some entrpereneurs just make it happen.

By the way, they had two women on this very early team? I'm impressed. The women look like they mean business for sure.

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May 27, 2007

Web 3.0 idea (just one)

I found a curious video of Michael Arrington of Techcrunch and several startup CEOs discussing what Web 3.0 may be.

I'd like to venture my own thought (yes, it's just one). I think Web 2.0 will continue for quite some time and is just beginning. The essence of Web 2.0 has substantial room for development before it's outgrown by something new.

So here's my idea. Advertising is not part of Web 3.0. Why? Simply because advertising in it's traditional sense is NOT USEFUL to the all-powerful consumer. The only advertising that will survive will be the kind that finds a way to be relevant. And even Adsense is in very early stages of figuring out how to make advertising relevant (I'm not sure who and why clicks on those text ads.) Web 3.0 has to take what we have now to another level and that must mean more control by the user. Have you seen the AdBlock extension for Firefox? It actually works! it blocks banner ads, flash ads, movie ads, etc. It's an advertiser's nightmare, but the advertiser doesn't get to choose anymore.

May 24, 2007

Founders must give up control

Found this very interesting tidbit at Mark Fletcher's WingedPig.com:
http://www.wingedpig.com/archives/2004/08/giving_up_169.html

As an employee climbing the corporate ladder at a company, it's all about getting more. More responsibility, more control, a larger salary, a bigger title. However, the exact opposite is true when you start a company. A big part of starting and building a company is about giving up. A founder is in a weird position. When you first start a company, everything is yours. You own all the stock, you make all the decisions. This point of creation is the only time this will be the case, however. Forever after, the founder must give up more and more control to other people and more and more ownership to employees, investors, etc. The founder must do this for the company to be successful, but at the same time this is the opposite of what many people are used to doing.

Very smart man, this Mark Fletcher is.