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SEO FAQ (or why you shouldn't hire an SEO "expert")
So yesterday I had a bit of a rant about SEO and I’ve gotten a few common questions so I thought I’d try to answer them. Here goes.
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The best unknown activist investment of 2009
In keeping with our penchant for stories about idiosyncratic investors who trade in odd securities found off the beaten track, we bring you perhaps the best unknown activist investment of 2009. Wit…
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You Know You’re Getting Close to Your Customers When They Offer You a Job
In 1985 Ardent Computer was determined to create a market niche for personal supercomputers. To understand our potential markets, we started by analyzing the marketing literature from Cray Research…
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The 'We Need To Own' Baloney
Over the past few months, I’ve heard countless VCs utter the words ‘we need to own’ followed by some number. Often it is 20pcnt, but it is frequently 30pcnt. I heard someone tell me about a VC yesterday who said they needed to own 44pcnt. I was tempted to ask them to give me the […]
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In which I stomp on some of our glorious “green shoots”
These are apparently America’s top under-25 entrepreneurs. Allow me to summarize: they are: A guy who rents airplanes to wealthy bored people. Not a bad idea, but … being the Avis of av…
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Release Late, Release Rarely (2006)
When you look at something you’re working on, no matter what it is, you can’t help but see past the actual thing to the ideas that inspired it, your plans for extending it, the emotions you’ve tied to it. But when others look at it, all they see is a piece of junk.
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How I knew I was done with my company
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Supercomputer Porn - Letting your competitors do your market research for you
As VP of Marketing at our new startup, the CEO literally threw me out of the building and told me not to return until I understood the market and could identify the key applications and customers f…
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The Universal Law of Leverage
An article that explains how misunderstanding leverage kills businesses.
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The two App Stores
Ged Maheux of the Iconfactory recently wrote Losing iReligion , in which he criticizes the business prospects of the App Store. He cites some general concerns, but much of the post is based on the unfortunate commercial failure of their Ramp Champ game.
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Get Out of My Building
Some of the most important business lessons are learned in the most unlikely ways. At Ardent I learned many of them with a sharp smack on the side of the head from a brilliant but abusive boss. Not…
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JWZ and the Palm App Catalog, Part II
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Leo LaPorte explains podcast economics: $350,000 expenses, $1.5 million rev
Leo Laporte, creator of This Week in Tech and the TWiT network of podcasts, spoke before the Online News Association this week and presented the very...
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Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier working for The Man
I enjoy my new job. I thought I wouldn't. The past few years were spent at dot coms, which present themselves as an employee paradise. Casual dress, flexible hours, innovation, a fun atmosphere, perks, and the lure of possible big money cashouts: everyone wants it! The software tools are sexy and…