About Sean Ammirati

Sean Ammirati is Chief Operating Officer at ReadWriteWeb, based in Pittsburgh, PA. He has also been part of the writing team since March 2007 and hosted our podcast ReadWriteTalk. Prior to becoming ReadWriteWeb's COO, Sean was a software entrepreneur who co-founded a few venture backed start-ups and prior to that was a research fellow at Carnegie Mellon's Software Industry Center. You can reach Sean Ammirati at sean@readwriteweb.com.
Recent Articles by Sean Ammirati

While certainly not every business needs to raise venture financing, it is the path for many high-growth technology startups. Therefore, going down the fundraising path is something many technology entrepreneurs will need to do and is a critical step in the development of their business. This can be an intimidating experience so I've put together...

In my last post on ReadWriteStart, I talked about how, in many cases, it wasn't an advantage to build your start-up in stealth mode. As a continuation of that theme, I thought it would be interesting to explore five tools you can use to iterate and improve your startup idea before writing one line...

If you think there's a lot of demand for data storage now, you better brace yourself. According to projections pulled together by CenturyLink, we're in for a deluge of big data. By 2015, CenturyLink says that we'll see a four-fold increase in data being created and replicated. This year, CenturyLink projects that 1.8 zettabytes of...

Today's chat's topic is spot-on for all of you working with virtualization: Intelligence Matters: Virtualize your Business Critical Workloads with Confidence. Please join our very own Scott Fulton as he's joined by Mitch Shults from Intel and Stephen Shultz from VMware to discuss this critical topic. You can join by interacting with the chat widget...

In the late 90s, Tom Peters famously declared that we were all CEOs of our personal brands. In Fast Company he wrote: "Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me...
Sean Ammirati Story Archive
- Next RWW Live Chat Tuesday 11/1 @ 10am PT & Chance to Win an iPad October 24, 2011 1:00 PM
- Next RWW Live Chat: Virtualized Storage and High Availability Made Easy October 4, 2011 1:00 PM
- Live Chat Archive: The Changing Nature of Storage Virtualization September 20, 2011 3:00 AM
- Did Daily Deal Sites Jump the Shark? [Infographic] September 20, 2011 3:00 AM
- First RWW Live Chat: The Changing Nature of Storage Virtualization September 15, 2011 4:30 PM
- What Motivates You? September 9, 2011 11:00 AM
- It's Back...the ReadWriteWeb Solution Series September 8, 2011 10:30 AM
- 5 Tips for Raising a Venture Round September 2, 2011 7:30 AM
- 4 Things Entrepreneurs Should Ignore From the Steve Jobs Formula August 26, 2011 11:00 AM
- Support an Entrepreneur: Buy Local Technology August 15, 2011 4:00 PM
- Help Me Interview John Borthwick June 10, 2011 3:00 PM
- 5 Interesting Observations on the Groupon Model from Academic Research June 3, 2011 10:00 AM
- Thanks to RWW 2WAY Summit Sponsors June 2, 2011 6:00 AM
- Why You Should Really Care About Groupon & Living Social May 30, 2011 11:30 AM
- How To Work Better with Your Co-Founder April 15, 2011 10:00 AM
- 5 Tools to Improve Your Idea Before You Write a Line of Code April 5, 2011 1:00 PM
- Is "Stealth" the Best Way to Build Your Business? March 28, 2011 1:00 PM
- Summer of Extensions Competition Continues June 29, 2010 11:00 AM
- Announcing the Real-Time Web Summit Sponsors June 7, 2010 9:45 AM
- Announcing Visual Studio Summer of Extensions Competition May 26, 2010 6:00 PM
- Announcing First 3 Mobile Summit Sponsors April 7, 2010 9:00 AM
- Google App Engine Announces Pricing Plan, APIs, Open Access May 27, 2008 4:00 PM
- Picking a Platform: 5 Issues to Consider March 30, 2008 9:50 PM
- OpenX vs Google Ad Manager March 16, 2008 9:05 PM
- 4 Technologies for Portability in Social Networks: A Primer March 10, 2008 9:39 PM
- SXSW: Lessons Learned at 37 Signals March 8, 2008 9:34 PM
- 10 Social Apps Demo at GSP West March 4, 2008 12:39 AM
- The Future of Social Networks at Graphing Social Patterns March 3, 2008 8:03 PM
- What Stanford Learned Building Facebook Apps March 3, 2008 6:27 PM
- Facebook Opens News Feed, But Not Enough February 27, 2008 2:28 PM
- FriendFeed: Ex-Googlers Create Social Network Experience Using Feeds February 7, 2008 9:16 PM
- Examining Feeds in Social Networks January 16, 2008 11:51 AM
- User Centric Identity: A Call To Action November 28, 2007 8:23 PM
- Five Themes From the Defrag Conference November 8, 2007 12:27 AM
- Google's Kevin Marks Discusses OpenSocial at Defrag November 6, 2007 4:45 PM
- New Release: Tumblr 3.0 & Interview with Founder on Read/WriteTalk November 1, 2007 11:39 AM
- Tim O'Reilly: Graphing Social Patterns Conference Keynote October 9, 2007 2:14 PM
- SocialMedia Aims to Bring Attention Economy to Advertising October 9, 2007 1:43 AM
- Big Brands & Facebook October 9, 2007 1:39 AM
- Church Blogging September 15, 2007 9:45 PM
- Yahoo Launches 2 New Hacks - Interview with Bradley Horowitz from Yahoo September 12, 2007 9:01 PM
- Twitter's Open Platform Advantage September 5, 2007 9:26 PM
- VCs: Startups Are Too Reliant on the M&A Market August 1, 2007 10:55 PM
- Openads 2.3 Beta Launched, But Google Threat Lurks July 8, 2007 9:25 PM
- Google's Sheryl Sandberg on Next-Generation Advertising June 24, 2007 4:48 PM
- Supernova: Connected Innovators June 22, 2007 1:07 AM
- Google's Udi Manber - Search is a Hard Problem June 21, 2007 3:40 PM
- Virtual Life or Virtual Hype? June 21, 2007 2:16 PM
- The First Principle of Social Web Apps and its Implications June 21, 2007 3:13 AM
- Open Ads Receives $5 Million VC Investment June 13, 2007 9:51 AM
- Vendor Relationship Management May 24, 2007 11:45 PM
- Overview of the Identity Landscape May 21, 2007 10:53 PM
- Google's Potential Vulnerability - An Open Ad Network May 15, 2007 4:51 PM
- Interview with Chris DiBona of Google April 26, 2007 1:20 PM
- Web 2.0 Expo: Open Source Business Models April 20, 2007 11:02 AM
- Web 2.0 Expo: All Things Widgets April 18, 2007 11:50 PM
- Internet Video Hyperaggregation April 9, 2007 12:54 AM
- DoubleClick Advertising Exchange - Could Lead To Google / Yahoo / Microsoft Showdown April 4, 2007 3:00 PM
- SXSW: Why Marketers Need To Work With People Media March 14, 2007 1:47 AM
- SXSW: Scaling Your Community March 12, 2007 10:12 PM
- SXSW: The Figures Behind The Top Web Apps March 12, 2007 2:11 PM
- SXSW: Sunday Keynote - Open Source Hardware March 11, 2007 9:31 PM
- SXSW: Using RSS for Marketing March 11, 2007 7:00 PM
- SXSW: Web 2.0, Semantic Web & Scientific Publishing March 10, 2007 11:18 PM
- SXSW: Under 18 Blogs, Wikis & Social Networks March 10, 2007 11:00 PM
- SXSW: Web App Autopsy March 10, 2007 7:27 PM
- SXSW: World Domination via Collaboration March 10, 2007 7:07 PM