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2011

Startup Lessons Learned

I'm excited for 2011, and I want to share some of my plans for the coming year. I can't believe a whole year has passed since I wrote a blog post called " Towards a new entrepreneurship " laying out my priorities for 2010. Much more is needed, and 2011 will see the first few buds of that research project flower. Thank you, 2010.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. Here’s Why on his Both Sides of the Table blog for a good read and a good lesson. Subscribe to the Gust Blog. Enter your email address to subscribe to the Gust Blog. Subscribe by email. WassUp 1.8.3

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How to analyze and leverage Google’s guest blogging warning

The Next Web

And as such, you are no stranger to guest blogging. Fast forward to 2011. So, adhering to Google representatives’ recommendations of creating great content and SEO veterans’ instruction of linking to fresh content, it seems everyone started to guest post in different levels of blogs and content quality. Fast forward to 2014.

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Why Bitcoin is Gaining Worldwide Popularity

The Startup Magazine

Shortly after this event Bitcoin became more widely known through technology blogs like Slashdot and Reddit, but struggled to gain widespread public attention until 2011. From 2011 until 2013 Bitcoin’s value went from $1-$20 USD per Bitcoin.

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Top 50 Startup Blogs of 2011! We’re In!

YoungUpstarts

Internet entrepreneur Evan Carmichael has put together a list of the top 50 Startup Blogs for 2011 and we’re in again this year under the category of “Niche Startups&# ! is one, and Jordan-based ArabCrunch being the other).

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Why LP’s Passed on Seed Funds 10 Years Ago (And What’s Happened Since)

View from Seed

The reality is that seed investing as a strategy was not a new thing back in 2011, and one could point to multiple prior waves where this sort of investing just didn’t work. When we started in 2011, YC was in its awkward growth/teenage years as they were expanding the classes pretty aggressively. That year, they invested in Segment.

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The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011

crowdSPRING Blog

Related posts: Three economic trends for 2011 (fueled by startup goodness). This marks an important sea change in the way business will be done going forward and brings transparency and collaboration to the governing process. Good for them. Photo: Paul Hocksenar.