Monthly Archives:: April 2009

100+ Web Start-up Business Ideas

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TweetWith this recession and unemployment so high, there’s likely a lot of people looking to start their own business. Hopefully one of these ideas of mine can provide some inspiration to just one of those people. I’m formerly a TechCrunch writer, a serial web entrepreneur, and an idea guy. I can’t believe I’ve posted 100+ [...]

IDEA #100 – Twitter License Plate social network

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TweetCan’t believe I have posted 100 ideas on this website now. As with any of them, they are all for the taking — I hope they bring you inspiration, or I hope it’s an idea that you’ll want to build! Let me know if you build any of them, I’d be excited to hear it! [...]

RE: The First Ten Things the New CEO of MySpace Should Do

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TweetResponse to Jason’s MySpace To-Do list: I think #2 and #3 that I list below are most important. [I aligned them with your #'s]. #3 has the most upside [global to 1billion users]. #11 is an idea missing [they are slowly losing bands, and thus band followers, over to twitter]. 1. Buying a search engine [...]

Staffing Plan for a Widget Startup Company

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TweetI’m interested in what a staffing plan typically looks like for a widget startup company, like: MyBlogLog, Lijit, IntenseDebate, Disqus, etc. What’s needed initially til launch? After launch, at what # of installs do you need: community manager; relationship manager (someone proactively engaging Publishers to install the widget), etc? Anyone have any info on this? [...]

BarCamp Buffalo #3 (May 4, 2009 @ 6:30PM)

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TweetWe’re trying something a little different this time — we’re going to have a theme at this BarCamp, which this time around will be Social Media (anything related to blogging, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc). You can still present on anything, but hopefully it’ll be related in some respect to the theme. We’re starting a little [...]

If You Suck, You’re Dead

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TweetI recently had an awful experience with United Airlines and feel 100% unsatisfied by how they handled the situation. I made a commitment to them in January, when I paid them money for airfare from BUF->AUS roundtrip (for my annual trek to SXSW). My flight was for Thursday morning, the day before SXSW started (which [...]

Google’s New Competitor: 1 Geek

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TweetAside from all the marketing problems of having the next Google and getting people to use it (not to mention the huge pool of advertisers Google has w/AdWords; nor to mention all the filtering of spam webpages that exist out there), in the past couple of days, some really neat services have released that will [...]