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Here is a basic blog layout with a right sidebarThe Cost of Building a Business in 1995 vs. Today
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:...
Christmas Presents
This year I gave two types of Christmas presents (with the exception of my gift to Amy, which was a Nikon DSLR): (a) photographs, and (b) AlumniFidelity t-shirts. The older I get, the more I appreciate gifts that are homemade. I hope you can enjoy the holidays with...
More Best Practices with Google Analytics
This is a follow up to a recent post I wrote on . Yesterday I noticed that Google provides "Alert Templates" which make it easy to keep track of changing trends in your web traffic. I took Google's suggestions (with a few minor edits), and now the system...
The Power of Small Things
An MIT meteorologist did an experiment with mathematical formulas that showed that the pressure of a butterfly's wings beating in Brazil can cause a Tornado in Texas. If we lived in a more optimistic world, would the meteorologist have demonstrated that the...
The Most Valuable People to Work With, and the Story of Little Tuppen
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 of them...
Facebook Tip: How to Know if One of Your Friends “Unfriends” You on Facebook
There is a Facebook application that is surprisingly difficult to find called the "Friend Tracker." Once you set it up, it will tell you how many friends you have added, and how many friends have "unfriended" you, in the days since you last...
The Fall of Search Engine Optimization (Or How Bing Actually Did Something Useful)
Every so often, I do some quick keyword searches for my company, my clients, and my own name, to see how everyone is doing regarding search engine optimization. Two things are notable. Number one, it looks like the black art of search engine optimization (SEO)...
The Most Exciting Part of Your Business Plan
You're not going to change the world by building a sales force, even if you build the equivalent of Napoleon's Army to sell your products. If the most exciting thing in your business plan is the number of sales reps you hope to hire once you get serious funding, you...
15 Years of Progress
Back in America pre-1995, this was the communication landscape: 9,000 commercial radio stations 1,100 television stations 11,000 periodicals 11,000 newspapers. How have things changed? Despite the best efforts of media executives to extinct themselves, there are...
The Difference Between Yahoo (YHOO) and Google (GOOG)
Venture Capitalist (who was an early investor in both Yahoo and Google), once said, “Google was built on a foundation of Larry's and Sergey's intellectual pursuits. Yahoo was built on the foundations of Jerry's and David's interests.” This is a nice...
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