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Muhammad Saleem at Startonomics (live)

Today the Startonomics workshop is underway, and Mashable friend and occasional contributor Muhammad Saleem is presenting a session on social media and word of mouth marketing for startups: Digg, Delicious, Twitter. Word of mouth has never been sexier. Learn how to use social media & social bookmarking...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-02-2008
Silicon Valley prepares for financial storm of century

I was walking around Palo Alto yesterday afternoon, visiting startups to see what the mood is. One scene stuck out for me. I was walking to my car with Tapulous CEO Bart Decrem and a friend of his ran into us in the street and said “nice job getting funding last month.” They make apps [....

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 09-30-2008
Anti-depression thinking: what do we do?

I’m watching the economic news this morning flow through FriendFeed and I can feel the fear. The depression. Apple is down 14%. Startups won’t get funded. Etc. Etc. It’s all there, if you want to follow along. Lately I’ve been clicking “Like” on a lot of unlikeable...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 09-29-2008
SeedCamp 2008: congrats to BaseKit, Kyko, MobClix, Soup, Stupeflix, Toksta, UberVu :)

I had a great time being an advisor / mentor for SeedCamp 2008 in London this past week. i'll be writing up a longer post on my experience there over the weekend, but just wanted to give a quick shout-out to the winners, as well as other startups & advisors who participated. In particular, thanks...

Posted to Venture Capitial by Anonymous on 09-20-2008
My “alignment” with TC50

Alec Saunders, in a comment over on his blog where he said I came off very poorly in my rant about the startups at Demo’s websites questions my “alignment” with TC50. I think that’s worth pointing out here. I have not shared a meal in the past few months with Mike Arrington. Last...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 09-07-2008
The “gold standard” of recent startups

Well, I’ve taken potshots at the new breed of startups. But let’s go back and look at recent startups that have gotten our attention and use this list as a “gold standard” through which to judge companies that come out this week at one of the two conferences. I put forth a short...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 09-07-2008
The Superbowl of Startups

When I attended Demo I remember being in awe of what I thought of as the Superbowl of Startups. Here were these companies that prepared months to spend six minutes on stage. Later I talked with “DemoGods Coaches” like Shel Israel or Nathan Gold. They told me just how much hard work went in...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 09-06-2008
The smell of a good startup

When I was over in Israel I was talking with a couple of journalists about what makes a good startup. One guy, I think it was TechCrunch’s Ouriel Ohayon, said he likes to visit startups to “smell the startup.” That started a discussion of what you do smell. Do you smell money burning...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 05-03-2008

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