Archive for March, 2007
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Monday, March 19th, 2007When you rely on advertising as your major revenue source, having customers outside of the U.S. can be a real problem.
Although the Internet is a global medium, U.S. firms, which drive the vast majority of online advertising spending, shun users in many foreign countries.
“Outside of multinational advertising companies like Coca-Cola and Microsoft that have a […]
DormItem - Boston, MA
Sunday, March 18th, 2007DormItem is a startup company based just outside of Boston, MA and founded by two college students, Dan Scudder and Zack Coburn. DormItem is a college classifieds search engine, that uses its proprietary ‘microregional’ searching to bring students the latest items for sale on their campus and at nearby schools. The DormItem […]
Freewebs - Silver Spring, MD
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007Freewebs is a free web hosting site that lets users easily and quickly design a homepage. The site was founded by three brothers in 2001, but just took their first round of funding late last year. I had a chance to grab lunch with some Freewebs guys at SXSW, and one of them […]
Massachusetts Ranks #1
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007It appears that Massachusetts is the #1 state for startups. Maybe we should change the name of this blog. Read more about it here.
Reputation Defender - Louisville, KY
Monday, March 5th, 2007Louisville entrepreneur and Harvard Law graduate Michael Fertik has launched a new company called ReputationDefender. From the website:
Our trained and expert online reputation advocates use an array of proprietary techniques developed in-house to correct and/or completely remove the selected unwanted content from the web. This is an arduous and labor-intensive task, but we take […]
A Startup Postmortem
Friday, March 2nd, 2007Here is an interesting analysis of an attempt to start a Q&A web site.
…the more we moved down the path, the more I realized the complexities involved with selling answers. Knowledge is a tricky thing to sell, because even experts disagree on some answers. What’s worse, most people think they know more than they really […]
