Google’s FeedBurner Social Isn’t Quite Ready. Back to TwitterFeed – for Now.
Why bother with an intermediary when we can now have FeedBurner send our blog post to Twitter directly? – I wrote in Startup Bloodbath in Social Media and I meant it. But for now, we’re switching back to TwitterFeed. The new Feedburner service that pushes blog posts to Twitter directly isn’t quite ready. Let’s just […]
Startup Bloodbath in Social Media?
Google announced their own URL shortener. Great. But some startups may be panicking. The TechCrunch title says it all: Bit.ly Just Got Fu.kd: Facebook And Google Get Into The Short URL Game. Of course bit.ly is not the only possible casualty, but they are the dominant one in the URL shortening space – or at […]
Pitching a VC – Dealing with Competition
This is a post in the ongoing series about how to pitch a VC. If you want to to see an overview / table of contents of the series go here and if you just want to see what the first slide in the pitch deck should be go here. Competition This is the slide […]
What Nokia? Kim Basinger's Lifeline would be an iPhone Today.
The 2004 thriller Cellular features three stars: Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, and a Nokia 6660 video-phone. The kidnapped school-teacher played by Kim Basinger pieces together a broken phone and reaches a random dude, Ryan (Chris Evans) on cell-phone – this call literally becomes her lifeline. Ryan effortlessly uses his Nokia miracle-phone in the middle of […]
