Re:Blogs for Online Entrepreneurs
by numair on Sunday April 12, 2009 @04:57AM
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This type of stuff gets voted up here all the time, and I don't really get it. If you need someone else to tell you how to be an entrepreneur, you're doing it wrong.
Imagine Ty Warner trying to find online gurus to guide his cloth animal business, sold through mom and pop stores...
Re:Blogs for Online Entrepreneurs
by knightinblue on Sunday April 12, 2009 @06:47AM
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You're comparing apples to oranges. If this really is the case, then Jessica Livingston would have never written "Founders at Work" - a fantastic read for any online entrepreneur
When it comes to the specific group of online entrepreneurs, the ideas may be different, but the EXECUTION has a lot of similarities - from funding to coding to hosting to design to monetization..........there's a lot to be learnt from those who went before us.
Re:Blogs for Online Entrepreneurs
by colins_pride on Sunday April 12, 2009 @10:15AM
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No, I would call this a news aggregator. The two-way communication that characterize blogs is a big improvement over traditional media. But blogs still have two classes of participants: a few people with permissions to post and comment, and everybody else who can only comment. This site is more of a small-d-democratic facilitator.
Re:Blogs for Online Entrepreneurs
by knightinblue on Sunday April 12, 2009 @06:44AM
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Where is Techcrunch?
Even worse, why is valleywag on this list? If anything, this site does more harm than good for startup founders (by spewing baseless venomous hatred about them)
Re:Blogs for Online Entrepreneurs
by kubrick on Sunday April 12, 2009 @04:12PM
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I slowed when I got to Guy Kawasaki (interested in startups but with no direct experience, contrary to popular belief) and cringed when I saw Scobleizer (same story as Guy), and stopped flat when I got to Seth Godin. Seth's got interesting things to say on occasion, but to real startup work, he's all but useless.
Imagine Ty Warner trying to find online gurus to guide his cloth animal business, sold through mom and pop stores...
When it comes to the specific group of online entrepreneurs, the ideas may be different, but the EXECUTION has a lot of similarities - from funding to coding to hosting to design to monetization..........there's a lot to be learnt from those who went before us.
There's actually a sentence in there where he describes a blog as "very financially, technically."
Even worse, why is valleywag on this list? If anything, this site does more harm than good for startup founders (by spewing baseless venomous hatred about them)
And then -- ValleyWag? Seriously?