One of my old highschool-mates decided, a year after graduating from college and trying ordinary development jobs, to go ahead and try to make it on his own. His goal? To build the computer game that would make him rich.
I wish Catalin all the luck in the world. I want the best for him, and […]

Caterina, one of Flickr’s founders, has an insightful post on “it’s a bad time to start a company”. It is a definite worth-reading, along with the comments. One interesting thing I learned: I had no idea Flickr was struggling for survival before being bought; I actually believed they were booming, that the AdSense and the […]

Via Dave Winer I get to Fred Wilson’s favorite business model:
Give your service away for free, possibly ad supported but maybe not, acquire a lot of customers very efficiently through word of mouth, referral networks, organic search marketing, etc, then offer premium priced value added services or an enhanced version of your service to your […]

I read several interesting things today, and I might as well link to them since they somehow tackle the web2.0, entrepreneurship, marketing and ideas :D

Russel Beatie talks about Apple iPod Shuffle making a pretty good point:

“…if you’re going to launch a new product… the product doesn’t need to be innovative … you need to make […]

The link of the day is about a talk from the Flickr guys on Scaling Fast and Cheap - How We Built Flickr over at ETech 2006, whose outline you can find over at Vogon Poetry
Pretty useful stuff, in the same line of thought as in About Bootstraping :

use Linux, MySQL
keep it simple
Control Version everything
use […]

Some of the most unusual business ideas, proof that imagination, enthusiasm and hard work are most usually a recipe of success.
I recommend you
Uncommon Business blog

Management, strategy and entrepreneurship quotes and ideas with Tom Peters - live keynote from his speech in Bucharest over at Radu Ionescu

Via TechCrunch I hear a pretty interesting news: Amazon: Grid Storage Web Service Launches
Briefly, it’s an online storage web service , with a pretty accessible price($15 per month for 100 GB of storage - although you should add the cost of the bandwidth as well - 20$/month/100GB) for everybody to use. I guess it’s an […]

Over on the Signal vs Noise blog (belonging by the guys from 37signals and their guests) there’s the second part of a small series on bootstraping. Tips on reducing the cost of a startup, from the founder of DropSend

Part 1
Part 2

PS. The comments for both posts are pretty interesting readings by themselves.

Dragos from Argumente points to two interesting readings; the optimistic list of Next Net 25 and a pessimistic yet cool reality check on Web 2.0 and chances for a startup to succeed within