From the monthly archives:

June 2009

I’m not Fred Wilson (who posts ideas and sees them built almost instantaneously) but I’m going to post about something I’d like to see as a Twitter application and maybe, just maybe … someone will build it.
Fred (and many others) are certainly right — the value of Twitter is in the links. We’re seeing [...]

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Tracking event hashtags on Twitter has grown a ton in popularity over the last few years, ever since Twitter exploded at SXSW. It’s easy to do using Twitter Search by inputting the hashtag for the event. It’s not a perfect system – sometimes there’s too much noise, spam creeps in, etc. – but it’s still [...]

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The Definition of Us

June 10, 2009

Startups change. It’s the nature of the beast. Ideas change. Plans change. Teams change. The one constant for startups is change. But how can a startup handle and excel through so much change?
Some companies have a very strong system of corporate values in place. They use it as a definitive guide for everything they do. [...]

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Many years ago when I started blogging I wrote a lot about small business and blogging. How to blog well was all the rage back then, and I studied some of the greats, like Copyblogger and Liz Strauss. These days you see a lot more “how-to’s” for Twitter and social networking, but blogging still remains [...]

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Who Let the Dogs Out?

June 3, 2009

Cheesy, I know, but it’s early in the morning and I’m still shaking out the cobwebs.
Extreme Venture Partners, a small Toronto-based venture firm focused on early stage startups, just announced ExtremeU, a 12-week summer program for 4 lucky startups. This looks similar to Y Combinator, Techstars and other similar seed fund incubators.
Kudos to the EVP [...]

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