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May
VP Factory, the Video Players Service, is opening its API
We are happy to announce that VP Factory, your straight-forward video solution, is opening its API! With the API you will be able to build powerful video solutions for your websites and web applications. Who can use it? Everyone with a Start plan. Still, until the 25th of June 2010, Free plan users can also [...]
May
RevvNation.com Officially Enters Public Beta Stage
RevvNation.com officially enters public beta stage. RevvNation is a car/race themed Massive Multiplayer Online Browser based Text Game developed by a young team of game and auto fanatics from Romania. It focuses on creating a complex social game and building a community around the passion for cars and gaming. Part time geeks, full time auto [...]
May
10 Forums Every Young Entrepreneur Should Belong To
After sharing with you “10 Young Entrepreneur Blogs you Should be Following“, here are 10 Forums Every Young Entrepreneur Should Belong To!
May
Start In The Middle
Lean startups and the Minimum Viable Product are all about starting in the middle. Paul Graham’s advice for startups can be summed up as ‘first solve the interesting part of the problem, then build the business around it’, but the process is also fractal – starting in the middle applies right down to the level [...]
May
Dropbox Startup Lessons Learned
Dropbox Startup Lessons Learned View more presentations from gueste94e4c.
May
Pivot Hard While Growing Your Startup Company
In the process of starting a company there are many transition points called pivots. At these points you must evaluate if what you are doing is beneficial. These pivots become extremely important in the startup process as they will determine where your company is in the long run.
May
How to Select an Ideal Startup Co-Founder
If you are a first-time entrepreneur, I often recommend that you team with a co-founder with experiences, connections, and a skill set that complements, but doesn’t duplicate yours. Even experienced entrepreneurs need a partner to strengthen their position. The question is how to find that elusive perfect-fit partner.
May
Small Changes That Lead to Big Results
Over the years I have spent hours working on tweaks to my websites that have lead to zero or imperceptible improvement in rankings and earnings. On other hand, I have also made changes which took just a few minutes of my time – and lead to huge changes in profits and revenues.
May
The right time to take on investors
Excerpt from Episode #13: Addressing criticism of 37signals (Part 1 of 2) of the 37signals Podcast (transcript): David: That’s the main push-back that we have is not that venture capital is bad; It’s that venture capital is bad when applied to businesses that do not have excessive capital needs.
May
Lessons Learned While Building Reddit to 270 Million Page Views a Month
Steve Huffman, co-founder of social news site Reddit, gave an excellent presentation (slides, transcript) on the lessons he learned while building and growing Reddit to 7.5 million users per month, 270 million page views per month, and 20+ database servers.
May
How Zappos was Born: Place Bets on Passionate People
Tony Hsieh is the CEO of Zappos.com, Inc. During the past 10 years, the company has grown from almost no sales to more than $1 billion in annual gross merchandise sales, driven primarily by repeat customers and word of mouth. Below is an excerpt from Tony’s forthcoming book that describes the beginning of Zappos.
May
Steve Blank is partially wrong about business plan competitions
In case you didn’t read it Steve Blank doesn’t like business plan competitions. I like ‘em. Obviously (if you’ve been in a start-up) he’s right that the plan will not survive first contact with customers…
May
Validating your startup idea and initial customer development
A reader named Eric asked a question about customer validation / development on my “Bull doesn’t build” post, and I thought I would answer with a post. Eric’s question was:
May
No One Wins In Business Plan Competitions
Last week one of the schools I teach at invited me to judge a business plan contest. I suggested that they first might want to read my post on why business plans are a poor planning and execution tool for startups.
May
Do we need physical startup incubators?
Abheek raised this question a few days ago about “the viability of a business like common office building esp for startup companies. Something similar to a physical incubator”. I thought it may be a good idea to share my thoughts via a post s
May
Why Everyone Should Get Funded (Once)
The smart money says there’s plenty of capital out there. And from the perspective of near-term return optimization, they’re right. In fact, there’s probably too much capital out there, especially in major centers of innovation like New York,
May
15 Reasons Your Business Sucks
Or maybe just 15 ways your business could be optimized to appeal more to the folks you’re missing but would like not to miss. 1. You don’t revisit your business plan regularly to re-align your current needs.
May
Video: Want to Be an Entrepreneur? Listen to Angel Investor Naval Ravikant
When it comes to starting a business, it’s hard to top Naval Ravikant’s CV. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded Epinions.com and Vast.com; and as an angel investor, he’s helped fund companies like Disqus and Twitter.
May
The 5 Rules of Solopreneur Success
Do you believe that you have to limit your company’s growth because you’re a solo entrepreneur? “Solo” doesn’t necessarily mean small but sometimes we forget to think big.
