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Join TinyComb @ Startonomics

by Jason Wilk on January 26, 2009

  • What’s Startonomics? It’s a one-day workshop designed by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs on how to create simple, actionable metrics; and how to use them to make better product and marketing decisions for long-term growth and startup success. You cannot miss the all-star lineup at the event set to begin February 6th @ 9am. I will be there covering the event all day, be sure to come and say hello if you are attending. Grab the last few tickets available here. Here is a taste of who is set to come:

Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media

Richard Rosenblatt

A serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand
Media in May 2006 to become the leading distributed social media company.
Richard built, operated and sold numerous Internet media companies with a
combined value of over $1.3 billion. He served as CEO of Intermix Media,
Inc., and Chairman of Myspace.com, during which time the public market
capitalization grew from $70 million to over $650 million, until acquired by
News Corporation. Richard previously founded then sold iMALL, one of the
first Internet companies to recognize the power of user-generated content,
to Excite@Home for $565 million. Richard is a Southern California native,
with a BA from UCLA and JD from USC Law School.

  • 1:30 – 2:00 - Afternoon Keynote Address (Keynote)

David O. Sacks – Yammer

David O. Sacks

David O. Sacks is the Founder and CEO of Yammer, Inc., a communications tool
for enterprises. Yammer.com launched at the TechCrunch 50 conference in
September 2008 and won Best In Show. Yammer was originally developed at
Geni, Inc., a startup founded by David in June 2006. Geni.com is creating a
family tree of the whole world, enabling millions of family members to
connect, share, and preserve their lives. Previously, David was the COO of
PayPal, helping to lead the company to a successful IPO and $1.5 billion
sale to eBay. He also produced the movie “Thank You For Smoking” for which
he was nominated for a Golden Globe.

  • 9:00 – 9:30 - Morning Keynote Address (Keynote)

Peter Pham – BillShrink

Peter Pham

Peter is CEO of BillShrink. He was previously VP Business Development & employee #5 at Photobucket.com, and was responsible for customer acquisition, strategic partnerships, and corporate development. Photobucket was acquired in 2007 by Fox Interactive Media, a division of News Corporation. When Peter left in 2008, Photobucket had grown to over 61M users making it the #1 photo sharing site and the 38th most visited site in the US. Prior to Photobucket, he was involved in multiple enterprise startups in areas such as mid-range server computing, software as a service, solid state storage, and mobilization of enterprise software. Peter has held multiple roles including sales, marketing, reseller channel development, product, and strategy. He holds a BS in Biological Sciences with a minor in Business Management from UC Irvine.

  • 3:30 – 4:00 - Pitching & Packaging for Partnerships: How to Land Amazing Deals & Tell If They’re Working (Speaker)

Frank Addante – Rubicon Project

Frank Addante

Frank Addante, a serial entrepreneur, has a successful entrepreneurial track record. The Rubicon Project is Frank’s 6th company. Before the age of 30, Frank started 5 companies, resulting in 1 IPO, 2 acquisitions, 1 failure (we call that one “a learning experience”) and his last venture, StrongMail Systems. Addante lead StrongMail from inception, to an initial cash-flow positive business, to becoming the market leader in less than 4 years, raising over $30 million in venture capital.

  • 4:30 – 5:00 - The A-Team: The Dynamics of Olympic Startups (Speaker)

Neil Patel – ACS

Neil Patel

Neil Patel is the co-founder of 3 Internet companies: ACS, Crazy Egg, and KISSmetrics. Through these 3 companies he has helped large corporations such as AOL, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard and Viacom make more money from the web. By the age of 21 not only was Neil named a top 100 blogger by Technorati, but he was also one of the top influencers on the web according to the Wall Street Journal.

  • 12:00 – 12:30 - Finding Users: The Metrics of SEO for Customer Acquisition (Speaker)

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OffBeat Guides: Your Personal Guide Book That Costs More Than My Pirated Lonely Planet

by Jason Wilk on November 12, 2008

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  • Technorati founder Dave Sifry has launched his new Travel Guide startup, OffBeat Guides.
  • He came up with the idea while visiting Dalian, China, one of my favorite places in the world. He was looking for a guidebook and was surprised to find limited info about Dalian, and an influx on major attractions like The Great Wall and Terracotta Warriors. He wanted to change this.
  • Concept: Once  you to enter your name, travel plans, and where you are staying on OffBeatGuides.com, the system crawls various sites such as weather, professional travel sites, notes and articles by professional travel writers, etc. and displays essential guide book info about the area you are headed.
  • The info is displayed in a Wikipedia style format and let’s you choose what kind of information you would like to include in your persona travel book (eat, sleep, attractions, dangers, etc.). If you know about the area already, then you can hide the history section, or if you already know what to see, you can hide the attractions section.
  • Once you’ve built your book, you can download it as a PDF for $9.95 or purchase it in physical form for $24.95, which also includes the PDF. You can always refer back to it online need be.
  • I don’t exactly know how Dave thinks he can compete in this arena. As an experienced world traveller, I can tell you that Lonely Planet, Rough Guides and more dominate the travel book industry. If I wanted to purchase one of those, I could do so online, buy it on Amazon used, or just pick one up when I go to my destination. Any non-westernized country will also have knock-off editions of all these travel guides that are around $5 once I get there. In addition, there are so many user generated travel resources out there, that I can print out myself if I wanted and make it into a nice little book. Wiki Travel guides, Bootnall Travel Network, Travel Blogs, Lonely Planet’s UG section, TripAdvisor, and so many more can give me this info for free. Come on, $24.95 for a printed version or $9.95 for a PDF? Sounds like you should have talked to a few more travellers before launching this thing.  I just don’t see the appeal here. Nice functionality and design, but I give it a 2 on execution. Sorry.

TC

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Google vs. TechMeme: Fight!!

by David Heyerman on October 1, 2008

  • Google just launched their latest blog news aggregator @ http://www.blogsearch.google.com
  • The blog search pulls the top stories from business, politics, tech and entertainment.
  • If your blog isn’t being tracked, submit it here.

Mashable

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Technorati: State Of The Blogosphere Report

by David Heyerman on September 25, 2008

  • Technorati released it’s first part of the State of the Blogosphere Report on Monday.
  • The report was split into five consecutive days of information.
  • Each of the five days focus on one topic starting with “Who are the Bloggers,” followed by “The What and Why of Blogging”, “The How of Blogging”, “Blogging For Profit”, and finally tomorrow brings “Brands Enter the Blogosphere.”
  • Technorati explained in it’s introduction that “the line between what is a blog and what is a mainstream media site have become less clear.”
  • Reasoning behind this is that the highly trafficked, large blogs are beginning to take on mainstream media characteristics and most mainstream media sites already have their own reporter blogs.
  • Check out the report here.

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Is Technorati On It’s Way Out?

by David Heyerman on September 15, 2008

  • Blog search site, Technorati has been experiencing some bug related problems lately.
  • The site was down for over twelve hours last week, yet no one seemed to care.
  • You’d think with a site of it’s size, a few reader posts or twitters regarding the outage would have occurred.
  • Compete.com shows that the site’s traffic is the same last year as it is this year.
  • The site has done a poor job of driving new traffic which is most likely because of lack of innovation with their business model.

Does Technorati just plain not care anymore?

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