http://novcrequired.com How to start & grow your web business quickly pre-funding Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:55:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm completely slammed and as much as it saddens me to say this, I'm putting novcrequired on hold for a week or 2 until this hurricane of work blows over. Be back soon!! http://novcrequired.com/2007/slammed/ I don't like posting negative comments about anything - particularly Angel Investors because I'm very fond of them and the concept as a whole. I had the privilege of meeting several experienced angels recently who added value to my business prior to any investment commitment. However... I feel compelled to ... http://novcrequired.com/2007/bad-angel-bad-entrepreneur/ Wired Mag has outed (with his permission) the founder of TheFunded.com. The site is an anonymous knowledge base compiled by CEO's who have raised funding. I also love the design. http://novcrequired.com/2007/thefunded/ A decline in Internet ad revenue's is the one thing that scares the hell out of me. Which is why this news from PwC is very very good for us all. http://novcrequired.com/2007/the-best-news/ If you're a consumer web startup and you're hoping to build a destination that has millions of eyeballs visiting every day, then you can't buy traffic. So you have three options: PR You do something press-worthy. Then you email all the high profile bloggers and press that you know. You also post ... http://novcrequired.com/2007/pr-vs-seo-vs-viral/ I became an Ali G disciple back when Sasha had 5 minutes on the 11 O Clock show on Channel 4 in the UK. The guy is a genius. Here he is pitching hoverboards to VC's. The naked chick on a horse marketing idea has some irony to it. Sandy ... http://novcrequired.com/2007/how-to-pitch-a-vc/ You're a geek. But don't feel bad. I'm a geek too. We geeks suck at some things. These days we do a little better with the opposite sex - geeks are more appreciated now that some of us are billionaires. But we're still bad at some things. As a geek entrepreneur, ... http://novcrequired.com/2007/negotiating-101-for-geeks/ On the Seattle tech startup mailing list today there was an interesting thread started by someone putting together a budget for bootstrapping their startup. The total budget was $26k, much of which went to legal and administrative fees. The main reason founders incorporate is to either protect themselves legally, or to ... http://novcrequired.com/2007/should-you-incorporate-your-consumer-web-startup/ Marcelo Calbucci has posted a list of the top Seattle startups that he's compiled using an average of Compete and Alexa rankings. I think UrbanSpoon is still my favorite and the site I use most out of all the startups. Ethan and Adam, the two founders (and my former co-workers), started ... http://novcrequired.com/2007/210-seattle-startups-and-their-rankings/ You're looking at a screenshot of an internal Google app. According to Matt Cutts from the quality/webspam team, "It is a tool used by members of our AdWords sales team to help prioritize new customer acquisition.". Originally from Google Blogscoped. No one seems to know exactly what the abbreviations mean, but ... http://novcrequired.com/2007/google-internal-screenshot/