http://blog.stevepoland.com web entrepreneur | obsessed music fan | b-lo forever! Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:47:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I gave this presentation last night at our third BarCampBuffalo. Sorry there's no audio (or some examples of my pencil mockups, or RFP spreadsheet): How To Startup! View more presentations. Related posts:BarCamp Buffalo #3 (May 4, 2009 @ 6:30PM) We’re trying something a little different this time — we’re going to have a ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/how-to-startup-not-being-a-programmer/ I received a question from someone that I thought was a good one: After doing some research and a lot of googling I´ve a lot of resources in different areas (customer development, project managment, agile development, business plans, etc). I feel frustrated trying to glue all this together in a practical order so that ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/start-up-roadmap/ With 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 ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/100-web-start-up-business-ideas/ Can'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 ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/idea-100-twitter-license-plate-social-network/ Response 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 ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/re-the-first-ten-things-the-new-ceo-of-myspace-should-do/ I'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 ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/staffing-plan-for-a-widget-startup-company/ We'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 ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/barcamp-buffalo-3-may-4-2009-630pm/ I 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 ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/if-you-suck-youre-dead/ Aside 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 ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/googles-new-competitor-1-geek/ I'm disgusted. I've been disgusted. I can't believe how low the bar is that your industry works towards. You suck. Every single one of you, except Southwest and JetBlue. You're never on-time. You don't care that you're not on-time. When you're not on-time, you piss everyone off that's involved (passengers; ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/open-letter-to-airlines-united-airlines-et-al/