Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

21st (and Real) Reason Why Seesmic Bought Twhirl

Om Malik, Friday, April 4, 2008 at 8:00 AM PT Comments (35)

Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur outlines 20 reasons why his company bought Twhirl, an Adobe AIR-based Twitter client that is preferred by the self-obsessed net-set (including yours truly). Some see it as a future-of-the-web move. The Valley echo chamber seems to agree.
I’m stingy with such compliments. In my opinion, the 21st (and real) reason [...]

Found|LINKS Mar 22 - Mar 29

Carleen Hawn, Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 10:24 AM PT Comments (0)

Here’s this week’s list of stories we may have missed, but which you shouldn’t.


1) Why we make misjudgments: On Tues. Mar 25, our friends at VentureHacks did a better job than I did of editing-down Marc Andreessen’s latest opus on cognitive bias, which is based on investor-lawyer Charlie Munger’s theories of “25 key forms of […]

Quote of the Day: Homerun? Nah. Just Get On Base!

Carleen Hawn, Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 3:49 PM PT Comments (0)

Ok, you’ve had days where you felt the way that this guy looks. Smaa-ck! Now consider this: He got on base. It’s just one more way that founding is like baseball.

“Not everyone gets a home run, but sooner or later you’re bound to get hit by a ball and walked.”
– Anonymous, from the Venture […]

Ev Williams: Do as He Says, and as He Does

Carleen Hawn, Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 10:21 AM PT Comments (5)


We launched Found|READ a year a go with a post about serial founder Ev Williams, and how the things he’d learned as CEO of Odeo were informing his then-nascent startup, and now-raging phenomenon, Twitter. (See, Do as I say, not as I did.)

This month Inc. magazine has wonderful profile of Williams, called Anything Could Happen, […]

VentureHacks wants to help you get “venture-hitched.”

Carleen Hawn, Friday, March 21, 2008 at 12:17 PM PT Comments (0)

Our friends over at VentureHacks, who’ve made it their business to help founders parse the arcana of term sheets, have gone soft. Recommended is a new site feature through which Venture Hacks community members endorse founders and their ideas to potential investors. Our beloved hackers are now matchmakers.

Here’ show Nivi and Naval introduced it […]

Will It Scale?

Stacey Higginbotham, Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 1:00 PM PT Comments (11)

That was the question asked of the four panelists on Monday’s Scalability Boot Camp Panel at South by Southwest. The panelists, who represented various consumer sites, all said that at some point in their online ventures the answer to that question was no. As a result they’ve ended up learning how to build network architectures […]

The Crunchies College: B-lessons from the winners

Carleen Hawn, Monday, January 21, 2008 at 11:53 AM PT Comments (6)

On Friday night TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Read/WriteWeb and GigaOM cosponsored the 2007 Crunchies awards in San Francisco. It was a great event, and in case you couldn’t attend, you can catch the video here.

The line-up of finalists in categories like ‘best bootstrapped startup’, ‘Best use of viral marketing’ and ‘Best founder’ was stellar — which speaks […]

How ‘word of mouth’ CAN work for you.

Wayne Smallman, Wednesday, January 9, 2008 at 12:32 AM PT Comments (0)

Editor’s Note: Founder and tech blogger, Wayne Smallman, offered this response to our earlier piece, Why ‘word of mouth’ marketing won’t work. We like Wayne’s stuff. When you’re done here, definitely check out: Twitter Isn’t Jesus.

Finding cost-effective marketing techniques is a challenge. One such marketing technique defies the passing of time, and stoically remains […]

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