…If apps need to try so hard to spread themselves based on the “Ideavirus” model, why take it so literally? It seems like the model here is the common cold, spread almost uncontrollably… and nobody really needs it. Whatever happened to confidence in product?

So, on Aaron’s suggestion, I am now almost done reading Masters of Doom by David Kushner: the gripping and very inspiring tale about the guys that founded id software and their journey. This is an absolute must read for any startup founder. Told through through the eyes of John Carmack, John Romero, […]

Last night was the annual Google Dance held at the Google Campus in Mountain View. There is no better place to feel like you are back in high school/college at the school dance while also enjoying the free food/beer/entertainment. There is always your breakdancers who gather a circle of crowd on the dance floor which isn’t always at […]

While reading the blog of Scott Heiferman (co-founder of Meetup.com), I noticed a trackback to Marc Andreessen’s blog. Marc, in turn passed this quote on from Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin, who wrote on the blog of Guy Kawasaki. Anyway, now that all the introductions and credits are out of the way, I […]

Girls in Tech presented a “Women in Venture Capital” panel discussion at Porter Novelli’s very nice and sheeky SF office space. The main focus of the event was aimed towards women entrepreneurs and the ratio was about 50/50 for men and women. As far as appealing the event to women, being an event in the […]

The demand of talent in the Web2.0 market is making it a challenge for hiring specialists and hiring managers to hire enough people for their projects.
Why is it the case? Well it has been happening for a while. We suddenly noticed that this year the market has gone up ten […]

This is part II of a series.
What kinds of apps are working on Facebook, and what can we learn from them as developers and designers? How do we even define success on Facebook applications? Installs? Active users? Canvas page views? Churn rate? Let’s see.
Let’s begin by taking a look at the Appaholic Viral Dashboard. Over […]

Note from the Managing Editor: It’s exciting to see more women participate in entrepreneurship! We absolutely need more of them. I wasn’t at the event so I cannot comment on the quality of presentations, but I did see Platial.com’s 5 minute pitch and thought it was pretty motivating to see. Girls, keep […]

Powerset is perhaps one of the most talked-about up-and-coming search engines. They promise to give you the holy grail of search- a search engine that actually understands what you want and gives you the answer right there on the results page. They are led by smart, successful founders, and have hired top engineers.
But […]