Great blog post, much broader than it's title implies

Quoted: I was making a last stand by myself. I got burnt out and beat down. I had no one to share my success and passion with. The money kept coming in but I was getting further and further away from achieving my goals. I needed to find a business partner.

Nice shout out for thisDev and Groupthink from Erica Douglass (Erica.biz)

Quoted: Roy Leban is on a mission to build a web startup in 30 days. He’s blogging about the startup and his challenges and goals. For those of you who wonder what it’s like to build a web-facing startup company, Roy gives great insight.

Quoted: This blog will be focused on Startups, Startups and Startups. We plan on writing about new startups entering the market, companies that have growth potential ...

Quoted: Cookie cutter go-to-market strategies
I run into a lot of startups that have identical strategies for getting to market. When you talk to them, a lot of them will talk about the same questions:

1. When are you launching?
2. What do you do to get on Techcrunch/Venturebeat/DEMO/etc.?
3. How do you think Twitter/Friendfeed/etc got their successful launches?

Refaved from Mohit:

I've never heard this before, but it makes perfect sense (and the post is an interesting read).

In my work (even at large companies), I've always tried to be an entrepreneur in this sense -- creating things that will survive after I'm gone, whether that's writing specs or writing code (like writing comments :-). And some of my proudest moments as a consultant were helping a company be able to accomplish something without me (rather than justifying my continued engagement, like most consultants).

Quoted: True entrepreneurs make the transition from working for someone else to working on their own much differently. Entrepreneurs invent businesses that work without them. Technicians create businesses that work because of them.

Quoted: As someone used to hacking out solutions, Mr. Neuberg took action. He created a word — coworking, eliminating the hyphen — and rented space in a building, starting a movement.

While coworking has evolved since Mr. Neuberg’s epiphany in 2005, dozens of places around the country and increasingly around the world now offer such arrangements, where someone sets up an office and rents out desks, creating a community of people who have different jobs but who want to share ideas.

“It’s nourishing on a fundamental level,” said John Vlahides, the executive editor of 71miles.com, a travel site covering Northern California, who rents a desk for $175 a month at one of Mr. Neuberg’s original sites, the Hat Factory. “And if you’re not nourished, how can you be creative?”

Amazing!

(WebFives was formerly Vizrea)

Quoted: Michael Toutonghi is headed back to Microsoft after selling his Seattle Internet startup, WebFives, to the software giant in a deal of undisclosed size.