A visionary in the true meaning of the word…

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Posted Friday #144 of the Startup Success Podcast - which was show #28 from June, 2009. It’s an interview Pat and I did with Sramana Mitra, one of the most successful and sought-after funded startup consultants out there. Sramana’s consults, books and online roundtables would make her a “person of interest” to startup founders. But it’s here [...]

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An interview with Seth Godin…

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Just posted #143 of the Startup Success Podcast - which was show #57 from Febrary, 2010. It’s an interview with one of the smartest people in the world when it comes to succeeding in the Internet Age: Seth Godin. Seth over the last few years has been focusing on a highly relevant question for startup founders: How do [...]

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An interview with Jason Fried…

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Just posted #142 of the Startup Success Podcast - which was show #63 from April, 2010. It’s an interview I did with Jason Fried, co-founder of 37signals. Jason’s advice to startup founders is anything but the usual conventional wisdom and I thought it would make a good start to the rerun season now that Patrick has left [...]

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Changes…

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Just posted show number 141 of the Startup Success Podcast – a great interview with Marc Nager, CEO of Startup Weekend and Pat’s last show as cohost as he goes on to founding his own startup, Tribbon. It feels really weird to stop doing something we’ve done together for pushing four years. I just wanted [...]

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How can I get help to develop my startup?

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So what’s Silicon Valley like?

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I was chatting with Alvin of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this morning on my site – he’s a law student thinking about doing a startup. He wanted to know: what’s Silicon Valley is like? Having lived in the Bay Area and worked in the tech industry 30 years, I’ve got a pretty good sense of that. [...]

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Results I like to hear about…

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I’m running my brief semi-annual secret MicroConsult sale right now for past clients and their friends and checking in on how past and recent clients are doing. Two bits of feedback that were the kind of results I like to hear: “Thank you for the help you provided earlier with the 2 MicroConsults.  It helped [...]

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6 reasons to use Asana to build your startup.

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So you want to successfully build your startup and that means building systems that get all sorts of work done. If you’re funded, you can hire someone to define all the task, marketing, support, recruiting, planning, agile project management and operation systems you need. If you’re bootstrapping, you are that person. In that case, let [...]

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Scalable content generation using DBpedia (and a hint of oDesk)

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By Dan Gravell, Founder, elsten software Content marketing is a cheap way to attract visitors to your site, but how can you achieve a long tail content marketing strategy as a single founder? As a single founder of Micro-ISV, I wanted to develop a scalable way to attract both visitors and inbound links. I came [...]

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They’re back!

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The cold zombie hand of those who want to save you from the evils of the Internets are back: CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) will keep you safe from evil cyberterrorists, pornographers and copyright infringers. Just close your eyes, shut up, do as we say and go shopping. Or not. Spencer Belkofer of Lumin [...]

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