Whether your site is a content site, an e-commerce portal, a museum site, or something else completely, you’ll likely have fans. Fans come in two types: sneezers and non-sneezers. The word “sneezer” comes from Seth Godin’s Purple Cow. A sneezer is someone who wants to tell…
Read more
He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing. – Paul Atreides And if that thing is valuable, you become the monopoly. Providing a reference tool is a good business idea. I’ve been in organizations where having a large-size data repository and searching capabilities keep people coming…
Read more
When you’re running your own startup and trying to make your product better, it’s tempting to take everything your users say and build it into your product. After all the users are the ones closest to it, right? A user makes a suggestion and you’re more likely than not to add it…
Read more
I don’t speak much about raising capital at Startup Next Door. For goodness’ sake, the tagline is “Venture without Capital”. But Wednesday night I spoke with a gentleman who had been involved in a few startups (most of them huge), and who has raised funds and is currently…
Read more