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I had the pleasure of sitting down recently with the CEO of a hot new analytics startup called NuConomy (Shahar Nechmad was in New York City after his investment from WPP was announced).
For users of Google Analytics, the best way to understand what NuConomy is doing is: “Goals on Crack” — in that they do [...]

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I’m writing, with the encouragement of my anti-stealth friend Charlie O’Donnell, a series of posts which talk more explicitly about BricaBox. This first one is about the market and web trends which are informing us. Future posts will talk about WHY you’d use BricaBox, from a consumer perspective. For now, please read the first [...]

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Just got this off my friend Sarah Tavel’s blog. She’s an associate with Bessemer Venture partners and, when not complaining about Facebook, has a lot of great insight into the Internets space (also, she has a great dodgeball game when she shows up!).
Here’s a Bessemer presentation on software as a service (SaaS) everyone should check [...]

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(photo credit: Dave Parmet)
A few weeks back, Charlie O’Donnell asked, in a blog post, an important question: “Why aren’t you working for a startup?“
Now it’s my turn to ask: “Developers of New York, why aren’t you working for BricaBox?”
Two weeks ago, Kyle and I posted a job opening at BricaBox on the nextNY job board, [...]

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Yesterday I posted a rant about Twitter and how little it’s changed in the past year. The point I was trying to make is that for something that I and many others have touted as the next big thing, there’s been practically zero change in the way we’ve used the medium over the past year. [...]

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My friend Kristian Hansen — New York playboy and Howard Lindzon’s right hand man — posted an article about how boring he thinks Twitter is.
I think Kristian’s on to something here, but not necessarily about the every day use of the tool — I really do find great utility from it — but rather in [...]

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UPDATE 1: My friends over at Silicon Alley Insider and Caroline McCarthy of CNET have just reblogged this question.
I’m always shocked by how few people apparently read Chris Sacca’s blog. Yeah, he never writes on it, but he was one of the most influential folks at the Google, and THE most influential in the Google [...]

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We’re in the process of putting together a series of metrics to judge BricaBox’s success over the coming (post launch) month.
After reading a lot, it’s clear that each startup should go by its own standards. However, there are quite a few measurements each startup should look in some fashion, like:

Bounce rate (this info comes straight [...]

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I just read this:
MetaWeb, the folks who power Freebase, a semantic database, got another $42 million in funding.
This shows a very serious investment in the semantic web… but instead of a distributed semantic web, which is a strictly top-down or bottom-up semantic web, it seems to be an investment in the private, centralized semantic web [...]

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One of the things I did to ring in the New Year was compile a list of 12 people I want to meet in 2008 (one for each month, duh). By meet, I don’t mean “shake hands” and move on (even though my awesome Microsoft Word clipart above makes it seem that way). These are [...]

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