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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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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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The Facebook team announced last night that you’ll be able to demote your Facebook apps to a lower status on your provide, essentially making it easier to hide them away.
The “clean-up tool” is going to “clean up” a lot of soon-to-be pissed off developers.
This just falls right in line with the Facebook business model warnings [...]

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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:

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Awesome new blog of the day…
Keeping Nickels.
It’s a blog about small business finance and it’s written by Nichelle, a small business accountant/bookkeeper for hire.
Now, if you’re wondering why that name sounds so familiar, it’s because Nichelle is famous for her cupcake blog and her cupcake meetup.
Anyway, ordinarily startups have to hire boring professional service providers, [...]

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Any moment now, the Silicon Alley Insider will announce it’s much anticipated “Alley 100” list — a list which will serve as the Who’s Who of New York City technology for the next year.
Reader beware: the release will and has already caused a lot of buzz and controversy.
This is likely my last post on the [...]

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Currently, Twitter uses the TinyURL API to truncate long URLs sent via its service. I think they should develop their own small url service. It would be easy for them to do (would take one of their developers a few days) and it could be a great way to make the system more robust.
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Thinking about sustaining your startup on ad dollars?
Think again, says my buddy Darren Herman (and he knows about the advertising market!).
In response to to a rant by Howard Lindzon, Darren throws some numbers at startup entrepreneurs which should have them retooling their business plans (if they have them).
Anyway, you should go check out his post [...]

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