Mark Goldenson, a co-founder of a failed startup called PlayCafe, has a guest post at VentureBeat where he discusses lessons learned from his experience. The whole column is worth a read, but here are a few things that popped out at me as being worth further comment.
April 2009
My friend Mark Story has decided to try to kick off a #blogmonday effort (sort of like the Twitter #followfriday campaign). Told him I’d play along, at least this once (I don’t know that I’ll do it weekly, but certainly periodically). Let me start with my must read blogs …
I’ll be a participant in the FIR Live online radio show this afternoon. Feel free to stop by to challenge me, ask questions, or just listen in.
Not surprisingly, I am often asked about the best solution for meeting someone’s media monitoring and analysis needs. Of course, I am very biased in favor of CustomScoop, but I also recognize that some solutions may be better fits for certain individuals, organizations, and needs. That’s why I wrote a white paper on the subject. In it, I try to address some of the questions and dilemmas I most often see
If you are a Software as a Service (SaaS) guy like me, you will certainly be interested in this updated list of the Top 10 Laws for Being SaaS-y released by Bessemer Venture Partners last fall.
At CustomScoop recently, we have had some conversations about how I tend to “parachute in” to various discussions. Some of it is of my own doing, inserting myself into something that I have an interest in or opinion on, while sometimes it is at the request of one or another team member who wants to solicit my feedback or advice.
The same things that draw many of us to New England as a place to live and work can make networking for web entrepreneurs more challenging. With a few exceptions, the population density is such that we don’t have the same critical mass in small geographic areas as those in San Francisco or New York City.
