May 18th, 2012 § Comments Off on Everything you need to know about digital marketing for your business § permalink
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Lot’s of entrepreneurs are struggling with marketing these days. in fact, I hear that marketing and user acquisition is the single largest bottleneck for new startups.
This is truly remarkable step-by-step how-to guide for kickstarting your online marketing. understanding this is bare minimum that every person should know and understand. if you hire a consultant, make sure you know all this, so that you can asses if (s)he knows more.
If I were a business person looking to understand how to use various digital channel making tools to build up my business, where would I start? What’s the right mix of tools to make this all make sense and work?
via: www.chrisbrogan.com
May 17th, 2012 § § permalink
yet another crazy fellow slovenian!
Matevz Lenarcic, a Slovenian pilot, biologist and photographer, opens the door of his plane after landing from an around the world flight, at the Ljubljana Airport. -AFP Photo LJUBLJANA: Slovenian adventurer Matevz Lenarcic successfully concluded a 100-day eco-friendly trip around the world on Thursday in an ultra-light plane boasting super-low…
via: dawn.com
as I usually say, we have a long and proud history of eccentric mad scientists and extreme sportsmen. cheers to all!
May 16th, 2012 § § permalink
Groucho Marx & anonymous blogging (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I’m late to the game, probably everyone knows already, but for the record:
Life just got a little easier for bloggers who use TypePad. The hosted blogging platform announced that it is integrating Zemanta’s content recommendation tools into its service, which suggests links to related stories from across the Web. Zemanta also generates in-text links to related information.
via: www.readwriteweb.com
… when we started 5 years ago, we had a list of most relevant blogging platforms of all times. now all of them are our partners 🙂 it feels empowering and inspiring to make dreams happen, but you have to remind yourself of that achievement, because when you reach them, you have other dream already.
May 15th, 2012 § Comments Off on Why CFOs Hate CMOs § permalink
i love this attitude, so true. bottom line – some go to vegas, others go to jail 😉
May 15th, 2012 § Comments Off on can entrepreneur really work ‘virtually’ ? § permalink
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this article suggests that it depends on the type of a business, which sounds like a safe bet.
In today’s business world, working in a location independent manner is possible – thanks to the enabling technologies, such as mobile technology, the Internet, and such. You are now enabled to, say, live in Bali, Indonesia while having your business operates in, say, Canberra, Australia;…
via: www.noobpreneur.com
… however, my experience is that you have to, you really must be close to your clients (or users). if being close means hanging out on their IRC channel then fine, but more often it means at least a local phone number and ability to take them out for lunch/coffee.
if you’re thinking about a startup, assume that you will have to relocate to where your clients are. period.
May 14th, 2012 § Comments Off on The dangers of relying on startup steroids § permalink
all the entrepreneurs and VCs are drinking the same cool aid most of the time, and some get away with it. most have to come back to earth sooner or later and actually build business that provide hard value.
I find this metaphor of startup steroids very telling:
Startup steroids: Pinterest feels the burn of Facebook‘s Open Graph By Ben Popper on May 3, 2012 09:30 am 23Comments A packed room of more than 200 founders, VCs and internet bankers took a moment to look up from their iPhones and listen in hushed reverence as one of Silicon Valley‘s top investors explained what he looks for when choosing the…
via: www.theverge.com
… another buzzword in the valley these days is ‘virality engineer‘. everyone want one, who will save the startup by providing the growth everyone wants to see.
it’s great that we are aware of the users and obsessed with them, but the hockey stick is the end goal. the goal of an entrepreneur should be to create a sustainably growing organization, mix of products, people and processes that ensure continuos creation of value, with or without the original entrepreneur.
May 12th, 2012 § § permalink
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Sanebox, this is a startup i really like, because they make my inbox managable. they are for email, what evernote is for notes. they just get it.
Calling email overload “a crisis in communication”, TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington issued a challenge back in 2008: “Someone needs to create a new technology that allows us to enjoy our life but not miss important messages.
via: techcrunch.com
basically, it’s just a ‘priority inbox’ that actually works – they classify less important emails correctly, and they send me a summary at the end of the day. it turns out, most of unimportant stuff is just spam, or automated reminders that I can just glance over and forget.
simple concept, that makes all of us a bit more productive – how much does the planet gain, if we all save 30 mins each day?
May 11th, 2012 § Comments Off on tower of babel emerging – auto-translated gmails § permalink
finally! this is so incredibly important for the global society!
not only it is possible to read anything by auto-translating web pages, now anyone will be able to communicate to anyone else. next step – transparent translations of IM and phone call in real time!
Now, you would be able to comprehend emails you receive in other languages. Google has just announced that it would be rolling out the automatic translation feature in Gmail over the next few days. “Over the next few days, everyone who uses Gmail will be getting the convenience of translation added to their email,” Jeff Chin, Product Manager,…
via: www.buzzom.com
May 10th, 2012 § § permalink
This is serious issue. Not sure if people outside US are even aware of it.
The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 (S. 3480) is a bill introduced in the United States Senate by Joe Lieberman (Independent Democrat, Connecticut), Susan Collins (Republican Party, Maine), and Tom Carper (Democratic Party, Delaware) on June 10, 2010.
via: votingamerican.wordpress.com
it’s the old security measure vs. power abuse debate, but this time it’s extreme and about the internet. I am always amazed how something so new and artificial as the internet feels like a proper human right. let’s hope it actually achieves that status before we break it.
May 9th, 2012 § Comments Off on Entrepreneurship is about to become illegal § permalink
Image by Franck Vervial via Flickr
Considering some of the best articles about entrepreneurship these days are comparing us to the forbidden parts of society…
Recently, I did a talk at JFDI, a Y-combinator-quality incubator for South East Asia, where I shared how it is like to be an entrepreneur. A lot of people tend to think: Being entrepreneur is about having a $1B+ home
run in the first try. But it’s almost never the case. The best way to describe the life would be through an analogy of playing poker.
via: sgentrepreneurs.com
… this reminded me of my favorite startup advice article: Everything I need to know about startups, I learned from a crime boss
… and if we add the famous UK startups experiment: Techy-types strip for charity
… we are getting really close to the PPP 😛
