mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 22 2008 | web 2.0, startups, investments, linkedin, paypal
Reid Hoffman's (age 40) investments include:
PayPal
LinkedIn
Facebook
FlickR
Last.fm
Siz Apary
Technorati
Digg
NingQuoted: Few Internet entrepreneurs practice what they preach as devoutly as LinkedIn Corp. co-founder Reid Hoffman, whose business revolves around his belief that good fortune flows ...
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 19 2008 | startups, espn, web 2.0, second avenue
Ex-ESPN employees started fanzter in June 2007. Investors are Rich Barton (Expedia, Zillow), and Second Avenue Partners. Even though their investors are in Seattle, the company is located in Connecticut.
Their first product, CoolSpotters, opened up in May 2008.
Quoted: Fanzter Inc. is a new media development company working hard to create the world's best consumer Internet products.
ShareViewed: 2 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 25 2008 | web 2.0, seattle, startups
Good survey of the Web 2.0 scene in Seattle. Sampa and Ontela featured.
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ShareViewed: 24 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 11 2008 | google, app engine, web 2.0, conference, startups
A new session at Web2.0 expo for Google AppEngine.
Quoted: In this session, we'll discuss the issues developers face building web applications and how developers can leverage Google App Engine to build and scale web applications.
ShareViewed: 4 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 02 2008 | sampa, startups, seattle, web 2.0
Sampa closed their round and launched their new redesign (by Roy Leban - as "un-named" usability expert).
ShareViewed: 10 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 05 2007 | video, startups, investing, bubble, web 2.0
click to playAlmost as good as "White and Nerdy". Must-see for Web 2.0 entrepreneurs.
ShareViewed: 18 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 14 2007 | web 2.0, design, pitch, startups
Excellent case study of what composes the elements of an effective sign-up page (or home page offer for a web service).
ShareViewed: 34 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 25 2007 | web 2.0, startups, operations, data center
I don't think the charts are from real sites - but interesting set of links for tools for testing, deployment, and operations.
ShareViewed: 15 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 03 2007 | web 2.0, startups, kawasaki
Truemors is probably making $300/month - and needs $3,000 per month to break even.
Quoted: Kawasaki said the coverage was responsible for a huge spike in page views, which are now averaging about 150,000 a month, according to Google analytics.
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Drew Curtis, founder of FARK, a Web site of interesting and amusing news stories that was one of Kawasaki's inspirations, said those numbers are pretty good. He said FARK, which now gets 53 million page views a month, got only 50,000 page views in its first year. FARK was launched in 1999.ShareViewed: 47 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 28 2007 | video, web 2.0, startups
Quoted: Jason Fried founded 37signals in 1999. Jeff Bezos of Amazon is its only outside investor. The company designs web-based software for individuals and businesses. 37signals estimates that more than 1 million people use its products....
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