Archive for November, 2008

Never forget a call or text

For you scrappy upstarts working the phones, Skydeck allows you to keep close track of your calls.

Manage your calls and texts the same way that you manage your email. Check who called yesterday, the last time you spoke, and use notes and tags to remind yourself to follow up.

Freshbooks one of my personal favorite web site as software sites, has integrated skydeck into their invoicing system making it doubly useful.

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How To Demo Your Startup

Jason Calacanis, former CEO of weblogs inc. posted a story to his emailing list discussing a 10 day marathon of startup pitches. Each presenter had 10 minutes to present their idea. He put together a thorough list of tips for entrepreneurs pitching their start up, including;

The greatest tech products over the past 10 years would take no more than five minutes each to demo

Head to TechCrunch for Part 1 and Part 2.

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What’s with the web 2.5 thing?

That 2.5 badge at top means that hopefully some of the scrappy upstarts on this site will be what makes web 3.0 happen.

The inspiration for this site came form a recent Kevin Rose, the young founder of Digg, video blog post. Rose points out that the darlings of Web 2.0 like digg, were actually started very early on, in the last web cycle certainly before web 2.0 had been identified. They were able to gain traction and be seen as leaders by the time the web 2.0 nomenclature took.

Kevin believes starting up now before the “next big web 3.0 push” could make all the difference in what sites make it and what sites don’t.

Whatever comes next in terms of web 3.0 will probably be born out of these economic times and in this upstart web 2.5 world.

Require even more reassurance you’re on the right track with starting up in a down time? Take a look at Bill Graham’s article Why to Startup in a bad Economy.

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