Month: September 2005

Adam Rifkin:

Every person has strengths and weaknesses. The appeal of a partnership — even if the team is just a pair of people doing what they can to leverage the power of two — is a matching so well-suited that the pair’s strengths are more powerful than those of either individual, thereby reducing the effects of each individual’s foibles. Whereas finding a romantic partner is such a regular occurrence in our society that people couple all the time, finding a business partner who is truly complementary and thoroughly communicative and unquestionably trustworthy is a much more elusive achievement.

Technorati tags: entrepreneurship, startup, partner, founders, hiring

Peter Caputa:

Been talking to some pubsub-ers (ie people that work at pubsub) about creating Pete Caputa’s list of Under-the-Radar Entrepreneurs that Blog. I get to start the list with 35-40 bloggers. It’ll look something like this (explained here).

So, who should be on the list? Feel free to nominate yourself. I have about 20 that I want to add to it. I am hoping that you all have another 20 to add yourself.

Technorati tags: blogging, lists, entrepreneur

Greg Balanko-Dickson (via Mary Sullivan):

The secret to successful planning is to implement the plan then measure success. You do this by tracking actual results vs. planned outcomes which creates accountability. A plan without measurable milestones will be prone to failure. Measurable milestones are also key indicators that can be used to determine whether or not you are making progress on your plan.

Technorati tags: planning, management, measurement, entrepreneurship

Dave Pollard:

We ended up trying to compile a list of the most important ‘rules’ for good selling. George came up with these ten, which I thought were outstanding, and well worth sharing with readers…

Technorati tags: sales

Kiko (via Michael Arrington):

Slow, featureless online calendars are so Web 1.0. Kiko Calendar provides all of the functionality of offline calendar software, and all the convenience of online access. Plus, it’s free!

Technorati tags: calendar, web2.0, productivity

Chapter 3 (via Larry Borsato):

It’s the fall again, and as summer draws to a close we feverishly get ready for another entrepreneurial event in Waterloo. So welcome to the Chapter 3 blog.

Technorati tags: entrepreneurship, startup, waterloo

Tom Evslin:

You’re pissed off about high gas prices, right? I thought so. But you don’t really want FEMA to run gasoline distribution, do you? I thought not. I’m trying slow revenge; I’m driving the speed limit. The difference in gas consumption is huge.

Technorati tags: gasoline, consumption, economics, driving

John Jantsch:

When a customer orders a product or engages your services, toss in something extra. You don’t need to make a big deal of it but do it systematcially and don’t advertise it. This is one of the easiest ways to over deliver on expectations.

Technorati tags: surprise, marketing

Jason Fried:

We’re putting the finishing touches on our next book. We’re not sure what we’re going to call it yet, but here’s a peak at the latest version of the table of contents.

Technorati tags: book, software, programming, entrepreneurship, design

Michael Arrington:

We receive on average 5-10 email requests a day to be profiled. Usually we’ll write about one of these, meaning if a company sends in an email request to be profiled, they have a 10-20% chance of getting up on the site.

This is not a hard rule but more of an observation. I believe that if more companies approached us differently, a much higher percentage would be blogged. I’ve decided to humbly submit my advice on how to approach us in requesting a profile – I think this advice will work well with other bloggers as well.

Technorati tags: blogging, web2.0, promotion