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Darren Herman, a friend of mine, long-time nextNY member, head of Digital Media at Media Kitchen, former co-founder of IGA Worldwide, and former member of Silicon Alley’s official sports team, Dodgeball 2.0, has just announced that he is soon-to-publish a book about “entrepreneurship and digital media.”
The book, according to his blog, will be available in [...]

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Startupers, if you haven’t read Evan Williams’ “Will it Fly” article today, go do it.
Basically, Evan came up with a chart with which to judge the validity of new product/business ideas.
In the chart, he examines an app’s:

Tractability
Obviousness
Deepness
Wideness
Discoverability
Monetizability

He then examines several of the web’s most successful apps over the past several years. See chart:

How does BricaBox [...]

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Last week, as many are aware, the Silicon Alley Insider released the much awaited Alley 100 list.
I say much “awaited” because (I feel no shame in pointing out) leading up to the release of the official list there was a large amount of activity on, and buzz around, a site I put up (using BricaBox) [...]

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After my interview in nextNYers came out on Monday, I posted an “interview” with my pal and partner, BricaBox CTO Kyle Bragger.
In the “PS” of the post, I said,
I really do think we need to feature the “I write code” guys more. I know it’s “my job” to be a front man, but I think [...]

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Charlie went and poked the bear, so I’m going to have to add some fire to this furnace and poke back.
Charlie says he’s tired of the self-promoters packing the Silicon Alley 100: People’s Choice ballot box with votes. He singles out Richie Hecker and Hilary Rowland because, well, they’re on top.
But let’s list everyone else [...]

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I made fun of Yahoo!’s Kickstart app for allowing me to be user # 433. I really couldn’t believe that a Yahoo! product, for gosh sakes, could have that few users at the time I signed up (the first day of public beta). And in that post I said,
We expect to have that many [...]

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The Silicon Alley Insider is bringing back the Silicon Alley 100 list… and while you’re eagerly awaiting who they pick and why, you can go participate by voting in the People’s Choice.
Of everything the Silicon Alley Insider is doing, I think bringing back the Silicon Alley 100 is one of the coolest. As I’ve said [...]

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I got a call today from a fellow Alley-based entrepreneur, asking for advice on raising money and getting his web company off the ground (he tracked me down from a comment I left on the Union Square Ventures blog). After speaking for a while, I mentioned so many resources for him to look up, he [...]

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Charlie O’Donnell and Alex Lines, cofounders of Path101, are baring it all… and lucky for us, it’s their startup plan I’m speaking about.
In what they call anti-stealth mode, Charlie and Alex make the argument that the net benefit of baring it all (marketing, investor and employee prospecting, community feedback) outweigh all the possible negatives (tipping [...]

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I’m at Startup Camp NYC today and tomorrow and looking forward to hearing about startups, learning about startups, and talking about my startup. Plus, I’m considering entering the Best Startup Contest.
We all know what a “startup” is, right?
Well, gearing up for the event, I subscribed to the startup camp’s wiki RSS feed to stay up [...]

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