Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the 50 million other new websites created every year, and attract the customers you need. Widgets and badges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Every entrepreneur is flooded with information from all directions, but despite their best efforts to absorb it, they likely miss the information really needed to start a business. The evolution and the real value of curator are outlined in a great new book “ Curation Nation ,” by Steven Rosenbaum. OnStartups , by Dharmesh Shah.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

Image via Flickr by SideWages.com These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start. Curation, the most efficient content. Supplement text here with video and audio. Widgets and badges.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! The idea was that websites (think news, blogs) could push out a regular “feed&# in an open, XML format that could be read by an RSS Reader otherwise known as a feed aggregator.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

This is even more true for professionals today and no group more so than entrepreneurs. Therefore, for those of you planning to be serial entrepreneurs your personal brand is an invaluable asset. In talking to entrepreneurs, I have found this forces them to keep it simple and concise when thinking about their personal brand.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 25, 2012

Instead I now have a Sony web enabled TV, and an Apple TV. Maybe it will be the domain of smart entrepreneurs who develop apps that cut across all web enabled TV’s to give a more seamless, yet personalised viewing experience? Just like web search has become. So I was true to my word and turned off Foxtel in my home.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Club W: service that provides curated, personalized wine subscription. LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Repairy: web-based customer relationship and resource management system for car repair shops and dealerships.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

A group of seasoned Austin technology entrepreneurs and executives are announcing the formation of their new company, Mass Relevance , to help consumer brand use real-time social content to drive engagement on television, the web, and in the mobile world. A good analogy of the value of all this data is like web analytics.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Twitter is better than RSS – it’s “curated RSS.&# The stream is limited in length and therefore people share links. Search will remain big but stream is an increasing method of discovering information and therefore driving web traffic. initially captured the Internet portal revenues by aggregating eyeballs.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

Resources abound online, but the noise-to-signal ratio is high, and the content needs to be verified and curated. There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. The tool aggregates various publicly available datasets and helps you plot them on graphs (see example below).

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

We now live in an anarconomy where entrepreneurs are making counter moves to disrupt the status quo so they can redefine commercial landscapes. The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I find Axios to be a much better aggregator for what I want to know (politics, news, tech) than Facebook is. Yes, I can check the mobile web versions (that are actually quite good) if I truly feel the need. It’s curated, which post Russia turns out to actually be quite a good thing. My routine has changed a great deal.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. Gurley’s been attacking this from another perspective, that of the entrepreneur.

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