Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 29th, 2009
Evan Williams had a great post on The StartupBlog Network titled, “ten rules for web startups” that every entreprenuer should read so I will reprint here:
#1: Be Narrow
Focus on the smallest possible problem you could solve that would potentially be useful. Most companies start out trying to do too many things, which makes life difficult and turns you into a me-too. Focusing on a small niche has so many advantages: With much less work, you can be the best at what you do. Small things, like a microscopic world, almost always turn out to be bigger than you think when you zoom in. You can much more easily position and market yourself when more focused. And when it comes to partnering, or being acquired, there’s less chance for conflict. This is all so logical and, yet, there’s a resistance to focusing. I think it comes from a fear of being trivial. Just remember: If you get to be #1 in your category, but your category is too small, then you can broaden your scope—and you can do so with leverage. MORE
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 29th, 2009
At Kingston Beta last night, a bunch of us were discussing as ot what were teh chief reasons for many Caribbean startups in the Tech/Internet/Mobile space startup then stagnate.
The group agreed on these top 3:
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 29th, 2009
At Kingston Beta last night, a bunch of us got to talking about the amazing profits being made by Jamaican porn sites such as smutvibes.com and rudejam.com. So one of my table mates dreamed up a domain name for his potential site. It was pantydrop.com. Thinking this is a very uniquely Jamaican way of a saying, he figured it would have been available. A check via whois.net revealed that it’s being sold on Sedo.com for….ahmm US$10,000. LOL.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 28th, 2009
PileoJobs.com pitch is what you missed at the last Kingston Beta, you may have missed the post I wrote days after it launched calling this Caribbean job search engine, a simple solution to a real problem. They now have added a social type of site pileojobs.net. Listen to the startup entrepreneur and founder Bill Bailey explain it in his own words.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 21st, 2009
GitHub is a site that brings together more than 70,000 developers who specialize in writing computer software for open-source distribution. They use the site to share ideas so others can borrow from, improve on, or add it to something else, change it—whatever. Most use the free tier of the site. Some companies, such as EMI and blogging software provider Six Apart, use the paid service to sharing internal company software projects. more
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 20th, 2009
That was the question in essence that I was asked by a Jamaican university student today. He was doing some research on Caribbean Social Networks. He started out with the following premise…Caribbean social networks are not very well known if at all by most Caribbean people at home and abroad as they are already being bombarded by and are active on the American social networks like Facebook, My Space and Youtube. He then asked me..do I think that Caribbean culture can be eroded because of this? Is his premise sound? Are Caribbean people too caught up in the usual Americana? Do they want to see, be themselves online ? Can Caribbean social networks help spread and even strengthen Caribbean culture?
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 18th, 2009
You’ve been asking me, where are the women…well…here they are. You will notice pretty quickly from the list that the majority of these top female entrepreneurs are bloggers and in fact some of the top bloggers in the world. Added to that you’ll probably be surprised to know that they founded and are behind suck big internet brands such as myyearbook.com, ning.com, flickr.com,blogger.com and sixapart.com and boingboing.com. Read the details here
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 14th, 2009
Will Caribbean social networks become irrelevant as more Caribbean people continue to flock to Facebook to date, congregate and market their businesses ? There are now over 20 Caribbean-centric social sites and networks…which ones will grow, make money and be still relevant in a year’s time and which ones will fade to black?
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 14th, 2009
Ok so I’m having listmania, bear with me, but damn aren’t they inspiring. Check this one out. The Top 30 money earining blogs and what do they blog about : internet and technology news, products and companies; celebrity gossip and entertainment; food, arts and events; speculative stock market picks;life coaching; how to make money online; how to become a problogger;affiliate marketing and others. Note well that the top three money making blogs are: Techcrunch.com, Mashable.com and Perezhilton.com and in that 1,2,3 order all make their money from advertising banners. Affliliate Marketing and PayPerClick Advertising are the other ways in which these top blog make money. Check this list in full here.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 14th, 2009
Just read through the list of Top 30 richest Internet Entrepreneurs and noticed that they covered these areas…search, site directory/portal, ecommerce, online video, online payment services, VOIP, Social networking, web hosting and online Lending. Hmmm. Instructive and inspirintg. Wonder what the list will look like in 3 years time?
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