by Will Marlow | Aug 1, 2011 | Original Blog
A big mistake that startups make is thinking that a company needs to be a certain (specific) size before it should begin investing seriously in public relations. That’s the wrong way to look at it. Instead, you should ask yourself: what does our company care...
by Will Marlow | Jan 23, 2010 | Original Blog
When you get ready to do a new business venture of almost any kind, you should expect a lot of people to ask, "Isn't somebody already doing that?"The answer is: I hope so. If no one is doing it, or planning it, or offering a different version of it,...
by Will Marlow | Dec 26, 2009 | Original Blog
I was just reading the 2005 by Ryan McIntyre about the plummeting cost of doing a startup, and thought I’d share the comparison of prices for hosting services in 1995 versus 2005. Bandwidth: $1100/megabit/month in 1995 vs. $128/megabit/month in 2005 Cage Space:...
by Will Marlow | Dec 22, 2009 | Original Blog
The rarest and most valuable people in a startup company are the ones who not only understand their role, but can perform that role, even when things that should happen first, don’t happen first. If you can’t find these people, you can still be one...
by Will Marlow | Dec 9, 2009 | Original Blog
The beta tag is one of Google’s brilliant hallmarks. The beta phase (it can actually last forever) solves one of the key challenges in software product development. The first challenge (unsolved by the beta phase) is to build software that solves a serious consumer...
