Archive for the ‘startups’ Category
Friday, April 20th, 2007
One thing about working in online startups is to remember never burn bridges because you never who or when you will bump into someone from your past. It's a small world after all.
I had a few such experiences this past week at the Topix party around Web 2.0 Expo (BTW ...
Posted in AK, daum, loomia, lycos, startups, web 2.0, wired | 1 Comment »
Friday, April 20th, 2007
David Marks, CEO and co-founder of Loomia, has written a piece over at the new GigaOm site - Foud+Read - that talks about how startups including Loomia often change direction to be successful. Loomia's position and success today is definitely related to the changes it made a couple of years ago. ...
Posted in judy's book, loomia, loudeye, startups | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
Fred Vogelstein's interview with Eric Schmidt presents an interesting story about classic DIY/NIH impulses that comes from engineers and developers - in this case Larry and Sergei desire to build a financial system themselves instead of buying one from Oracle. At every startup I have worked at this desire comes up. Developers ...
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
Mark Cuban's question in a post below asks us to imagine if my old company - encoding.com aka Loudeye (which encoded lots of a-list music and video) decided to throw all the content it had online. That would have been one hell of a site from a user's perspective - movies, ...
Posted in YouTube, copyright, eMusic, encoding.com, google, kazaa, loudeye, mark cuban, mp3.com, napster, startups, video | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
Thanks to Dave McClure, I had a chance to sit down the other day with Scott Rafer, CEO of myBlogLog. In the course of our conversation (largely reliving the ups and downs of the online business sector from 98 to present), Scott made the good point that when it comes ...
Posted in Fon, business plans, dave mcclure, encoding.com, mybloglog, scott rafer, startups, success | 7 Comments »
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
I was able to attend the PaidContent.org Seattle Mixer tonite. It was great to run into old faces dating back to my early days in Seattle at encoding.com (later known as Loudeye). One point brought home again is that startup people are startup people. The craziness, chaos ...
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