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The Common Sense Web... An Entrepreneur's Blog
http://treadaway.typepad.com
The reality of Web 2.0 entrepreneurship and building new technologies from someone in the middle of the action. The author is the founder of the MinutesNotice local, social, mobile advertising network and Youpons.net
Recent Posts
Capital Efficiency and where we are in the innovation cycle
Capital efficiency is a hot topic for Web entrepreneurs these days. I've outlined a lot of the reasons we've gotten here in prior blog posts... it's a combination of a bad economy, a maturing yet healthy & evolving Web business f...
An Alternative Startup Approach
A lot of people have commented on how the economy and lack of "exits" changes the game for entrepreneurs seeking funding for early stage idea. You need one heck of a personal connection or paying customers to even think about......
Wordplay re: Incubators, Catalysts, Accelerators, Mentorship Programs, et al
Quick rant today on something that's been bugging me for awhile -- snobbery around terms used by different people who support entrepreneurs. Some things I've heard lately: "We are not an incubator , we're an accelerator!" "Incubators stand the test.....
ModernizeNewspapers.com
As we work more and more with local media companies and newspapers, I've decided to break out those posts into a separate blog at http://www.modernizenewspapers.com. This will allow me to focus on our business on that blog while continuing to......
Quick Hits -- September 14, 2009 -- Twitter & Facebook Lite edition
We have spent a lot of time in Twitter the last few weeks... a lot. A few quick observations of things we've noticed: Twitter is down all the time. I'm not talking about the consumer front-end... I'm talking about the......
Believers and Non-Believers
Since leaving Microsoft just under 18 months ago, I've worked with a number of incumbent organizations to help them modernize their businesses with Web 2.0 themes: social media, real-time, self-serve, collaboration, etc. I've worked with government f...

