Not too long ago, Brad Feld challenged everyone to write more about their failures. I was reflecting a bit this weekend on my recent success with my earFeeder project and realized that I never took him up on that with my previous business, iContact. About three years ago, I got together with two of my …
Since TechCrunch covered my earFeeder project last month, lots of people have emailed me to ask for tips on getting their products profiled by TechCrunch. I think earFeeder got covered because it was simple, interesting, and unobtrusive and maybe just kinda “neat”. I only got one email from them asking a few questions, and they …
There are a couple of cool startups in my building here on Pearl Street. One of them is Six88 that I’ve talked about before, and they’ve continued to grow their business (providing SaaS for direct to consumer wine shippers) by blogging away on the topic and using some innovative tactics like creating useful free widgets …
Jay Graves is one of the guys behind BarDiver.com which launched today. Ironically enough, I met him at BarCamp last weekend. BarDiver is a user-driven site listing bars, as you might have guessed. Jay told me that right now BarDiver is a growing side project, and that they’re really just “fans of the dive bar.” …
Here’s a podcast that I captured at Barcamp on Saturday. Ari Newman was talking about issues related to startups including: Raising capital Corporate formation Marketing Legal issues Stealth mode vs transparency Of course, I couldn’t help but jump in. It was BarCamp, ya know. Thanks Ari! View this Podcast at www.clickcaster.com
Podcast episode #7 is a six part podcast covering the CTEK Angels Live event from October 17th. About 400 people attended and three companies pitched to about 25 angel investors. As far as anybody knows, this is the first time an event like this has been done in public and been podcasted. Since the event …