Thursday, May 22, 2008

“20 Ideas To Relentlessly Self Promote You and Your Business”



An older but great blog post that summarized Ann Tardy's “Driving Revenue in 2008 with Asking + Relentless Self-Promotion” presentation @ SF's chapter of Women in Consulting.

What great guidelines to follow for those who want to bring their business ideas to life or just simply drive additional revenue for their existing company.

As a side note, this is what led me to the above blog post: From Incoherent to High Concept Pitch

Yet another good read courtesy of Joey Lo. @Aronado referred to this blog post as a "A Gift from the Startup Gods..." I must say though, I wasn't entirely impressed w/ the "Facebook for Brands" tagline.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Earthlink Followup & Qwest's FTTN...


So Earthlink promised a trial for me but never came through. There goes my high hopes. =P

On another note, I found out from Leo today that Qwest is offering fiber optic 12mbps high speed internet in Newcastle, WA?! Time to investigate them instead. Maybe they will offer it in my area too. =)



Though I must say, their prices seem a bit higher than what Verizon is offering the areas that they cover. Without much of a choice though, Qwest's fiber services seems like the best deal in town. Here's more about it.

Good bye Earthlink!

Monday, May 19, 2008

All about funding...



Here are a couple more short articles recommended by Joey Lo that I really liked myself as well.

Angel Financing

When to Raise Money

Of course, I am absolutely not saying that you will learn everything about funding through these two articles but they are nonetheless very informative sources that summarize what I had to learn "the hard way" from working with startups and pitching for funding over time.

China rising: If you know Mandarin and management, you're in



Thanks to my friend Dave for this great article. It really points out an incredible opportunity for those of us who are bi-lingual or intend to become bi-lingual. I have always been an advocate for seeing the world and leaving a trail across all 7 continents. So how about China as your next stop? =)

Thursday, May 15, 2008

5 Quick Tips on Pitching Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists



Great short article on simple/obvious things to keep in mind when pitching your idea to potential investors courtesy of Joey Lo. I think I should write a script to auto repost all her links on Twitter. She comes up with the best articles. =)

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Google Docs Sharing Security

For those of you who are fans of Google Docs or use it to collaborate in your startup environment, here's a very useful article to read before you go start sharing all your docs left and right on it. ;)

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Why Microsoft buying Facebook is not as silly as you think...



Joey Lo pointed out this Alley Insider article on Twitter approximately 5 hours ago. Very interesting bullet points on why it makes sense for MS to really buy FB contrary to some of the other critics' believe.

The tech geek side of me is wondering if MS does end up successfully acquire Facebook, will Facebook have to port all its code to .NET? ;) That would be an interesting migration project.