Posted by Me on May 17th, 2008
Posted by Me on May 9th, 2008
Here, Gigaom discusses the lifecycle of a startup. But they forgot one crucial step:
Being featured on SuckyStartups!!!
One day an entrepreneur is chatting with his friends, gets an idea, writes about the idea on his or her blog, and then starts coding. A few weeks or possibly days, a beta — increasingly a euphemism for a not-fully-thought-out-product — emerges.
THE LAUNCH
Then the buzz builds and the company opens up the beta far and wide. Maybe TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, WebWorkerDaily or WebWare write about the product.
The missing sentence:
“Then SuckyStartups blogs about it, telling it like it is. No differentiation. Me too. No business model. No chance.”
THEN…
LAUNCH A SOCIAL NETWORK WIDGET
If the user adoption press releases, the widget and subsequent coverage can’t get your site growing again, it’s time for the big guns…the open API.
In between
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Posted by Me on April 1st, 2008

They should have listened to the old adage…
Yocial’s whole shtick is having a single site to have both work and personal friends.
Now your colleagues at work can see how you spend your drunken after-work hours. And your friends can see how you’re a corporate drone from 9:15 to 4:45. Great. What innovation!
Update: so, apparently, you can keep your two sets of friends separate. I’ll stick with facebook and linkedin personally.
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Posted by Me on December 16th, 2007
This is good…a social network for pets! I’ve seen it all now.
The thing is, there ain’t anything more to say…enjoy…
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Posted by Me on December 8th, 2007

They ain’t a startup, but it’s worth a mention anyway…CompUSA is closing all their stores. I wonder what took ‘em so long. I remember getting my 386 there and upgrading the RAM from 4 to 8MB. Good times. Even then, the employees didn’t know what they were talking about.
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Posted by Me on December 3rd, 2007

Just kidding–Google rocks.
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