It always feels anachronistic these days to exchange business cards when you usually have someone’s contact information anyway in an electronic format before (via email introduction) or just after (via LinkedIn connection) you meet.  john-smith114@gmail.com  <– The founders can’t even figure out how to buy their own domain name. MORE >>

Less than an hour after submitting 140it via their form, we get out this email from TechCrunch writer Jason Kincaid: Hi Vinicius, looks cool, am trying it now and writing up a post. Company Name: 140it. It abbreviates words, converts company names to their StockTwits ticker and shortens URL’s using  bit.ly. Thanks, Jason. MORE >>

How to Improve Email Open Rates. emails. many emails, without. words, their ability to persuade people to open their emails. Open rate is a measure of how many people on an email list open (or view) a particular email. an email in 3 critical areas: the from line , the subject line and the preview pane. MORE >>

Finding and agreeing upon a worthy name is always a struggle, especially if you have co-founders. There’s a lot of advice on the Internet about naming companies; see this article from OnStartups.com for a particularly good, detailed checklist. Then of course there’s the domain name. Short so it’s easy to say and read. MORE >>

Back in 2006 I decided it was time to build my first email list. had been blogging for just over a year at that point, and had over five years experience running websites already under my belt, yet I had never created an email newsletter or list of any kind. It’s now four years since I started my first email newsletter. MORE >>