I know lists are stupid, but...
Yeah, yeah. Lists are stupid and invariably miss lots of great people, but I like this one because it's instructive as to who the media considers a top entrepreneur.
For my money I'd add Greg Roebuck of carsales.com.au Ltd. - carsales.com.au has made BRW's ...
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You can't take a trend to market.
Seems to me that Web2.0 has become a kind of synonym for innovation, the inference being that if your web company isn't Web2.0 it's not innovating.
Love this post because it states the bleeding obvious: Create a product that is compelling to a market.
Also, seems ...
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2+2=5
I like readying Guy Kawasaki, even if I find his very occasional forays into evangelism of the Christian variety a little off-putting.
On the other hand this post - in which Guy runs some numbers from his startup Truemors - is a corker!
Link: Guy Kawasaki does the numbers
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"glossy but useless"
Wise words on web 2.0 usability from Jakob Nielson.
Link: Jakob Nielsen on web 2.0
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Y-Combinator on slashdot
Slashdot has an interesting discussion on Y-Combinator today - most interesting because of the general tone of the discussion tends towards negative.
When I first heard about Y-Combinator I loved the idea. Micro seed funding, enough for you and a mate (or two) to work on your hot idea over summer ...
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Social website wisdom
The thoughts on popularity as a (non)measure of quality seem intuitive, if not obvious, but I think this sums up the value of user generated content perfectly:
Every time a user comes into your website, they should make the site better for the next user.
Link: Rails Envy on ...
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