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Entries from July 2006

Why I don’t subscribe to Netflix

July 26th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Do you use Netflix?  Did you ever use Netflix?  I did and ended up cancelling after a few months.  The problem was, I didn’t want to dedicate 2 hours of my time to watching a movie.  200 hours/month or more of time surfing the net was OK but hey, that’s another story.  Having access to […]

Tags: Startups

Neat article on the importance of cash flow

July 25th, 2006 · No Comments

My Great Lesson in Cash Flow is a nice article on the importance of cash flow in a start up.  No deep lessons but just emphasizing that you have to watch the cash, watch the cash, watch the cash …

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Top 10 unintentionally worst URLs

July 25th, 2006 · No Comments

It’s tough coming up with a decent domain name - all the good ones are taken. But you have to wonder what some people were thinking when they came up with these domain names:
Who Represents? - www.whorepresents.com
Pen Island - www.penisland.com
and 8 more courtesy of Independent Sources

Tags: Marketing

Jobster and its slightly ominous title for a jobs site

July 14th, 2006 · No Comments

Pete Cashmore of Mashable writes that Jobster has relaunched as a social networking site for job seeking. Theory is that you can connect with people and add faves. You can add tags to other users, which has interesting implications: who’s going to be the first to be labeled “brown noser”?
“Meet Your Future” […]

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