5,560 posts tagged Startups
SubscribeWorking hard or hardly working? VC-backed startups vs. Bootstraps.
http://www.jacksonfish.com/ blog/ 2008/ 03/ 11/ working-hard-or-hardly-working-v…-
FriendFeed - Does It Enrich The Conversation Or Add To The Noise?
http://mashable.com/ 2008/ 05/ 16/ friendfeed-does-it-enrich-the-conversation-or…Muhammad Saleem made an interesting point about FriendFeed on Twitter earlier today, which turned - ironically, and against his will - into a big discussion on FriendFeed. As many of you know, FriendFeed aggregates all your other social profiles into one feed.
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Infopia’s SaaS eCommerce Platform for Growing eTailers
http://www.rockymountainvoices.com/ blog/ 2008/ 05/ 15/ infopias-saas-ecommerce-…Applying the right technology solutions to enhance business growth is something Bjorn Espenes, CEO at Infopia, is passionate about. As a growth company itself, Infopia delivers a SaaS (software as a service) eCommerce platform for businesses who need to manage the common operational challenges that growth creates.
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Tesla Update: Permanent Transmission Not Til September
http://earth2tech.com/ 2008/ 05/ 15/ tesla-update-permanent-transmission-not-til…Even though Silicon Valley electric vehicle startup Tesla started “regular” production of its first vehicle, the Roadster, in March, it won’t be producing cars with the permanent transmission until September, the company said Thursday afternoon.
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Geek Out: How Facebook Scales Chat
http://gigaom.com/ 2008/ 05/ 15/ geek-out-how-facebook-scales-chat/Neither Om nor I are shy about talking infrastructure, but the High Scalability blog has gone totally geek and parsed the details of how Facebook plans to scale its new Jabber chat service to 70 million members using a hella lot of servers and Erlang.
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Seedcorn Competition 2008
http://www.mneylon.com/ blog/ archives/ 2008/ 05/ 15/ seedcorn-competition-2008/…Seedcorn Competition 2008 By Michele Neylon on May 15, 2008 9:10 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Grainne from InterTradeIreland got in touch with me yesterday regarding the All Island Seedcorn Competition 2008. The competition is aimed at startups and has a prize fund of 280 thousand euro.
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Mikestar.com: is online karaoke really “pathetic”?
http://thenextweb.org/ 2008/ 05/ 15/ mikestarcom-is-online-karaoke-really-pathet…When Monte Miersch from German-based Mikestar walked up the stage of the Next08 conference this morning and said he has started an online karaoke service, he got laughed at by the audience and called “pathetic” by the moderator. If Tokyo is the place where people devour karaoke, Hamburg is the other extreme.
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Remime.com - Forget Birthdays. Use Remime.
http://www.arnsteinlarsen.no/ ?p=12719What it does So you forgot your mom’s birthday. Again. Or what about that appointment with the auto repair shop that somehow keeps slipping your mind? Truth is, dates are hard to remember, whether it be birthdays, anniversaries, or a yearly checkup.
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Geek Out: How Facebook Scales Chat
http://gigaom.com/ 2008/ 05/ 15/ geek-out-how-facebook-scales-chat/Neither Om nor I are shy about talking infrastructure, but the High Scalability blog has gone totally geek and parsed the details of how Facebook plans to scale its new Jabber chat service to 70 million members using a hella lot of servers and Erlang.
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Gwap.com - Help Make Computers Smarter
http://www.arnsteinlarsen.no/ ?p=12720What it does Google ‘Gwap’ and you may get some interesting urban slang results or an exercise in ESP brought to you by the lovely folks at Carnegie Mellon. Gwap—the Carnegie Mellon version, that is -- stands for Games with a Purpose, and is part research, part fun.
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Flacks = Quacks? Avoiding PR Malpractice
http://pr4pirates.com/ 2008/ 05/ 15/ flacks-quacks-avoiding-pr-malpractice/So you’re an entrepreneur reading the latest “pr sucks” meme to hit the Internets and thinking, “shit, we were counting on PR to drive 1,000 beta sign-ups in the first 6 months… now what?” Or you heard that your agency is listed on the ignominious prspammer blacklist. It’s not good, Jim, not