Posts filed under “Business”
Aggregation vs. Content Creation
Scott Karp has a terrific post about the future of content businesses and I think it’s spot on. I would assume just the opposite ‚Äî that content distribution businesses, or more accurately in digital network terms, content platform and content aggregation businesses (think Google, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Digg) are the only real media businesses left. [...]
If you screw up, admit it
When you screw up, admit it. Sometimes, even when it’s not your fault, you should take responsibility (those of you with significant others know exactly what I’m talking about.) Jetblue is one of my favorite airlines and they screwed up big-time. I just got this in my inbox from them: where to download tangled online [...]
Put yourself in a position to innovate (via Ask the Wizard)
Dick Costolo’s post titled “Launch Late to Launch Often” contains (as always) some terrific ideas. Extensible architectures generally provide more long-term business value than point solutions, although point solutions may monetize a specific market more quickly Software that hasn’t been released can be changed in ways that become less possible N customers after launch. As [...]
List of Sites Banned from Digg (via Naffziger's Net)
Dave has a great post up about the list of sites banned from Digg. It’s a great piece of work. Dave got the top 10,000 domains from Alexa and then tested them against digg to get back a list of 183 banned domains. He also makes an insightful point about UGC sites that are banned: [...]
Great Post on Hiring At Early Stage Startups (via Ask the Wizard)
Dick Costolo has another great post up on his blog called Too Many Chiefs or Too Many Indians. The post is about hiring at early stage startups and whether to hire experience or youthful enthusiasm first. Dick favors experience initially and has some good arguments backing it up. First of all, in the first year [...]
Great Post on Taking Smaller Bites (via Crashdev)
Chris has just started blogging and he has a great post up on his blog about the importance of taking smaller bites when starting a company. …one big takeaway was a collective resolve to build our next business by “taking smaller bites”, working toward a vision by executing more thoroughly around discrete building blocks of [...]
Building UGC Sites (via Andy Sack's Blog)
Andy has a great series of posts on building user generated content sites based on lessons learned from Judy’s Book. Highly recommended Tip 1 – Focus on a category Tip 2 – Content Quality the new toy story 3 movie
The Apple Store Rocks
I was at the Apple store in the U-district last week and had picked up the Sims 2 Pets Expansion pack (a great gift for the Sims addict in your life) and was waiting in line to pay. As usual, it was impossible to leave without playing with the iPods and lusting after the Macbook [...]
Post on Vertical Search (via Search Engine Journal)
Greg Sterling has a post on Search Engine Journal about vertical vs. horizontal search that is well worth reading. He makes a great point about the challenges facing vertical search and whether they will really win the consumer adoption battle. From the post: “Rather I‚Äôm interested in how that richness or improvement is effectively conveyed [...]
Great Wired Article – How Yahoo Blew It…
Brad Feld has a post about this article in Wired which led me to read it. It’s a critical account of how Yahoo lost the search advertising war to Google. Highly recommended. From the article: The problem, of course, is that better-late-than-never often fails in technology markets that operate as winner-take-all games. Just as Microsoft [...]