If you could offer entrepreneurs one piece of advice what would it be?
Start up blog’s is this: Don’t die wondering.
I’m sure all 20,000 monthly startup blog readers want to hear yours. Add them to the comments or email them to me and I’ll post them on an upcoming blog entry with your name / blog beside it.
Here’s a meme from the Cluetrain Manifesto guys. It was written some 9 years ago and still rings true. The predictions herein are still evolving today, and yet some corporations still haven’t got it.
Start ups out there; invest 5 minutes with the ideas below, embrace them and you’ll be well ahead of the game.
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We finally got ‘crunched’ – with a little spiel for rentoid on Tech Crunch.
In the first instance it’s given us a large membership boost and a very positive response. But it’s also given us our share of negative armchair experts, naysayers in the comments.
We say:
“That’s Ok – revolutionaries like us don’t care what naysayers think.”
But it’s a few thousand more people that know about rentoid.com too.
Actually we do care about what they think as it pertains to ideas to improve the service. We turn their negatives into a positive. But we always ignore an attitude which says something won’t work. It won’t for them – their attitude has already predetermined that!
In fact, some context here: We had many more positive comments and only a few negative. Also, both our membership and listings have been boosted as has our unique visiters today. But I thought I’d make this ‘blatant piece of self promotion’ worthy of a startup blog story by providing some insight!
You can check out the story here.
And add some comments here on the Crunch Base or on the story. We want to hear negative and postive sentiments. We want to improve our offer.
So I’m not the only one who thinks a $50 espresso is worth talking about. Turns out visual story teller T.Benjamin Larsen does too… he brought to my attention his video below.
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Is your start up worth talking about?
Cool brands are put simply, just like cool people. It’s not so hard to believe when we consider that brands (well known ones) have personalities. Brands have values, share ideas and represent something.
Brands are just like people, the personification of things or services.
So what makes a cool brand? The same stuff that makes a cool person.
Cool people:
· Cut new ground
· Dress how they want
· Don’t care about being popular, which is why they ‘become’ popular
· Do stuff they like, not what others like
· Have strong opinions and values, don’t care what others think
· Don’t try and impress – so they do
· Are confident and relaxed
· Aren’t selfish, mean or vindictive
· Are often compassionate and kind
· Are easy to get along with (easy to use?)
· Take a while to be understood
· Get discovered eventually as being – thought leaders
· Cool in a crisis
Hey, there’s plenty more personifications where these came from – so be
like Arthur Fonzerelli and add them to the comments.
Digital footprints last forever… and our anti-hummer conversation continues…
I’d spend my last hour working on my startup.
I’d spend my last dollar working on my startup.
Conceptually not just financially, I’m a believer in how I invest my time.
If we don’t believe, how can they?
