tag:,2009:/1/tag:72.47.210.69,2006://1.4738- 2009-10-30T14:52:23Z Comments for Guide to Startups - and a note about Feedster Movable Type 4.23-en tag:72.47.210.69,2006://1.4738 2006-02-08T20:39:03Z 2007-12-16T23:15:58Z Guide to Startups - and a note about Feedster Richard MacManus http://www.readwriteweb.com Ex-Feedster Scott Johnson has an interesting podcast entitled The Young Engineer’s Guide to Startups. It gives a nice overview of the startup life, especially things like equity and the 'risk to reward ratio'. The latter can be summarized as: the earlier you join a startup, the higher the risk... but also potential reward. Other tips: the less cash you take when you join a startup, the more reward you potentially get; startups are "problem-solving paradises"; delay the valuation if possible. All of which are handy tips if you're thinking about starting a company, or joining a startup. 

I learned some new terms too - like "vomiting in the data center" :-)

Interesting to note that Scott has a new startup called Ookles, while his old company Feedster is busy doing damage control over at TechCrunch. Incidentally, Feedster does have a point when they say their business is RSS-based and so it's not quite the same as Technorati - something we went over back in July 2005 when I did my own Alexa charts damnation post. All the same, I think Feedster would help their cause if they promoted some of the business arrangements they have - e.g. didn't they do a deal with AOL in June last year? What's the latest on that and other RSS-based business that Feedster does?

]]> tag:72.47.210.69,2006://1.4738-comment:36927 Comment from Scott Johnson of Feedster on 2006-02-09 Scott Johnson of Feedster http://fuzzyblog.com/ Why thank you so much for this lovely mention. I tried hard on that podcast to make it easy for young engineers to understand the issues. Take care.

]]> 2006-02-09T08:05:16Z tag:72.47.210.69,2006://1.4738-comment:36928 Comment from Mike on 2006-02-11 Mike http://chch-changes.blogspot.com Meebo dudes also have a couple of interesting "how we got started and where the money came from" postings:
http://blog.meebo.com/?p=86
http://blog.meebo.com/?p=91
http://blog.meebo.com/?p=94

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