Business Logs

What I find hilarious about this picture isn’t that he’s lighting a cigar with a few hundred dollar bills (looks like a Photoshop job if you ask me) but because the website that reports on Web 2.0 Internet Startups probably makes more money than the Internet Startups it reports on. How many Web 2.0 [...]

By now you’ve probably heard that The Little Calendar App That Could(n’t) Kiko has been absolved and is being sold on eBay alongside diapers, that’s a tough ending, especially for a fledgling company funded through Paul Graham’s prestigious Y Combinator warm incubator. From Paul’s Kiko eulogy:
“What nailed Kiko was Google Calendar. Once that came [...]

Kiko, an online calendar application incubated by Y Combinator, is up for sale on eBay. The starting price of $49,999 has not been met yet, so we’ll see how it goes.
Traditional exit strategies for companies include being acquired or an IPO, but that’s normally for companies that have at least an inkling of an [...]

The harsh truth that tech and “Web 2.0″ industry pundits don’t like to talk about is that the vast majority of these new “Web 2.0″ companies are failing. New companies are starting, mashing up, trying to innovate, but none are close to approaching the success of MySpace, Digg and YouTube and there’s a very [...]

Whether you believe YouTube is bigger than MySpace or not (I’m in the “not” wagon) there are still some things to keep in mind if you’re trying to work with the video behemoth. YouTube may or may not be flipbait because of the copyright issues, but there’s no reason why your company can’t work [...]

In this fast-paced and synergistic world, buzzwords get the play. Non-technical people start companies and press ridiculous deadlines to their engineers, Web 1.0 burnouts start new companies that are just rehashes of the idea they couldn’t make work in 1999, and the technology you use is more important than the value you provide. [...]

I only subscribe to 42 feeds via Bloglines and I’m not totally sure why. Instead of continuously adding new feeds and new sites I stumble upon, I find myself removing feeds more often than I add them. It’s not that there aren’t other good blogs out there, but I think of it like [...]

Out of everyone on my buddylist, I’d say that only 1-2 people actually use del.icio.us or other social bookmarking apps. I’ve never used them just because they serve no purpose to me — if I like a site I’ll bookmark it on my own computer, and if I really like a site then I’ll [...]

About two months ago, Jason told me that he and his team at 37signals were working on a calendar. We talked for a bit about how other calendar apps suck a whole lot, and how he (and I) felt it necessary to finally build one that introduced clean design and a quality user experience [...]

Nearly every site I visit this morning is discussing Google with disdain, and not even for good reasons. Michael Arrington vents about Google adding seamlessly useless features to Picasa and how commenters who drink the Google juice are just kowtowing Yes Men:
“Google-love is getting out of hand. In fact, Google is getting out of [...]