Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2010

I continue to see stories of really young entrepreneurs, like this article on Business Fastlane , with kids as young as 9 years old who have successful businesses. Sites like MySpace already allow teens to customize their home base with graphics, blogs, and music to make it more attractive to their peers – that’s marketing.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

This article originally appeared on Silicon Alley Insider. And as I’ve argued many times I think an ever bigger mountain would come if they pushed an open platform harder and told the world, “come make money on Twitter’s ecosystem&# (the way that Facebook did in beating MySpace) and then tax the winners later.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this? Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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MARCH 1, 2010

And thats not even counting MySpace, which Rupert Murdoch famously paid $580 million for in 2005. We have all the people who came out of eHarmony; who came from MySpace and Overture and PriceGrabber and Lastminute.com and Shopzilla and CitySearch and all these places. What is happening in L.A. today that drives the startup community?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. I have made many of my arguments in a blog post I wrote on The Innovator’s Dilemma , a concept that is critical for both innovators & incumbents to understand. Fox has already divested much of FAN (the Fox Audience Network) and has been wanting to sell MySpace for some time.

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MAY 5, 2011

This article originally ran on TechCrunch. Fred Wilson wrote an eloquent piece on his blog about “ recycling capital ,&# which every regional community should read. We have all of the 2nd-time entrepreneurs from Overture, CitySearch, MySpace, etc. I’m in Seattle this week. Of course I have. It’s important.

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JULY 10, 2011

Because we include links in our Tweets, Twitter has become one of the most powerful sources on the Internet for driving traffic to websites, blogs and news sites. And from this simple accident came the most powerful driver on Twitter. These have all broadened but they all started as pure Twitter clients.

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