Weekly insights from an Entreprenuer: To spend one year as a tiger is better than to live forever as sheep
I’ve been doing a lot of market research lately for my startup. Any web entrepreneur is probably considering or has considered Ads as a viable business model. Google has made it super easy here. $9.99 Billion in ad revenues in 1H07. They must be doing something right. So what category/industries spend the most online? Here’s [...]
This article caught my eye today when I was running through my startup ideas. I reposted Gates’ actual predictions here: 1) Television will be married with the Internet, allowing for personalized news and commercials. People will watch more of their home movies on their TV screens, and TV sets and computers will be increasingly connected. [...]
Today I found myself with the unfathomable urge to get some Chinatown lunch action – specifically samurai noodles – and for the first time in a long time, had to think about whether it was worth it to pay an additional $2.50 to take the bus to cross the bridge to get to my noodles. [...]
I forgot where I read about this, but Hulu.com just launched today. (I bookmarked them yesterday since they had a “come back later” shunt page up) Take a look at their blog post: http://blog.hulu.com/2008/3/13/welcome-to-hulu. Ah… the awesomeness of working at a startup. Congrats to the team and thanks for bringing good quality content online. I [...]
(Dedicated to one of my good Zillow friends “Jonny Mo” after a rather weird conversation about entrepreneurship) Here’s what Jon says: “Entrepreneurship 101: If your boat is being robbed by pirates, find a way to take their weapons and hold them hostage.” Yeah. Kinda random. I thought so too. Here’s what he was really referring [...]
Growing up with techies, you quickly learn and internalize the path to startup success – have a great idea, prototype it, show it off to people, and if you’re lucky, it’ll stick, and the $$ will follow. For a long time, I’ve been following this strategy: coding at home in my free time to try [...]
I finally did it. I quit Zillow – possibly one of the best companies to work for. I’m an idiot. That was last Friday. Today is Monday, which means today is my first official day of umemployment. First days need to be extra special – so at the request of my very good friend Mr [...]
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