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NetFlow Security Startup

With so many web 2.0 startups running around with too many consonants in their name, it's hard for a traditional software startup to get some of the buzz that yet another youtube clone might. Today I am profiling Packet Analytics which provides a NetFlow search engine. . . . .

Win an Xbox 360 Elite

No doubt if you follow videogames at all, you have heard that Microsoft has a brand new XBox 360 - the XBox 360 Elite. Pinging my contacts to make sure I can deliver it, I am going to give one away.

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Legal Structures, Acquisitions and Startups.

One thing that hasn't changed in a start-up is choosing the correct legal form for your web startup. Because of the way deals are often structured, your legal entity can either hinder or help you. Let's go over some of the options.

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Posted by on March 16, 2007 1:00 PM in Startups | Comments (0)

Coffeeshop Usability Testing

I now have roughly 5 months of data dealing with the beta test of my comparison shopping engine. In the short time it's been up, with ZERO advertising dollars, it has achieved a Page Rank of 6 and an Alexa ranking of 150,000. That said I think there is room for serious improvement.

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Posted by on April 9, 2007 10:09 AM in Design | Comments (0)

Is Facebook the new Pointcast?

I was thinking about this post about how Mark Zuckerberg turned down the billion dollar buy for Facebook.com. The post seems to agree that turning down the billion dollars was the way to go. I disagree and I think not accepting the buyout was a bad move. Here are my seven reasons why

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Posted by on April 24, 2007 8:17 AM in Startups | Comments (0)

Hiring - Another key factor in start up success

One of the luckiest things about Brave New Worlds is that I mostly lucked out when it came to hiring. I seemed to get the best people, that wasn't entirely due to luck however. We didn't conduct any Pre-Employment Screening. Once we got what I would like to term "bad hire." Boy did we learn from that experience!

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Posted by on May 20, 2007 5:13 PM in Startups | Comments (0)

Business Incorporation

A very common mistake among young entrepreneurs is not to incorporate but rather to run their business as a sole proprietorship. This is a mistake on several levels. First off if your business is going to grow to any size, you are going to need to have the asset protection of a corporation.

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Posted by on September 3, 2007 10:34 PM in Startups | Comments (0)

Spock.com - Web 2.0 people search

I missed the initial beta launch of http://www.spock.com two months ago. I have been swamped at DWT and quite frankly the people search space isn't one I am particularly interested in.