Probably one of the best resources i have seen on facebook connect http://bit.ly/57cfjM
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Tips from Apple on doing a product launch http://bit.ly/9CnSDK
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Too much money is bad for you. http://bit.ly/aemVDA
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Innovation- You need a dense population of knowledge. http://bit.ly/aYvkLx
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Neat and cheap, payment, invoicing and support solution SAAS. check it out. http://whmcs.com/index.php
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Malaysiakini’s Got A Visiting Email Guru
I thought I would share with IT folks around on building an email list – it’s one of the most effective ways of generating revenues online. I thought it would be good to just share it with you given that Kenneth Yu, formerly from Ogilvy and was also at Mindvalley would be giving us some solid tips on this at Malaysiakini’s New Media School. Kenneth taught me the true meaning of the ‘Customer Lifetime Value’ and ‘Dominant Emotion’ when writing copy and the results have been phenomenal. If you’re interested in going just email me at tm (AT) impersuasion.com and you’ll get 20% off (or just call up Mkini and say you’re Tzu Ming’s friend)
You can find out more here>> http://school.malaysiakini.com/finding-gold-in-email-lists-and-lead-generation/
‘Disclosure – I actually help run the Malaysiakini New Media School’
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How To Raise As Little Money As Possible
I did this short prez some time back in a barcamp event and four or five people have asked me for the slides, so i decided to just do a narrative and put it up online. If you have similar experiences, would love to share more, Just send me an email or a comment. thanks.
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The reality of the Freemium pricing model http://sixteenventures.com/blog/the-reality-of-freemium-in-saas.html
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I am telling you – invideo monetization will drive conversions. Check this out!
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Y-Combinator, will the clones work?
Y Combinator, Everyone Seems To Be Building An Incubator
I had the misfortune (or fortune) of working for a venture capital/incubator back in 1999 when the world was consumed with dreams of silicon valley riches. It was so crazy, we had banker bosses who swapped their suits for jeans and they raised something like USD 100 million to fund the wildest ideas that would never work.
Our best tech investment was probably a company called Netease which is listed on NASDAQ, funnily enough it was a rather late stage pre-IPO deal. So what happened to the seed/early stage stuff we did? i think 2-3 went public, some acquired but most of them died a natural death – which is really to be expected (or so they say). Number of startups and Probability apparently was an investment ethos – never mind some of them were as flawed as the hunchback of Notre Dame.
To cut a long story short – it was a great way to raise money – telling investors you are a company which would generate companies like a factory but a horrible way to run a business – it’s tough running your own business – but helping 20 others start their businesses? You must be kidding right?
Well, fast forward 10 years and we have a whole new craze for companies which hatch new companies . While some may argue, this sounds all too familiar, I am somewhat slowly convinced we have learnt some crucial lessons. The lean startup movement, cheap infrastructure, agile and quick software deployment has made failing ( the breakfast of champions) easier and cheaper fodder for budding entrepreneurs. The poster boy for this new generation of ‘incubators’ is Y-Combinator, a Mountain View based company which has churned a whole bunch of startups (investing nothing more than USD 20K)
http://ycombinator.com/about.html
Why do I think this model may work? Because it has. And they have done so in the worst economic environment in the last 80 years. While I may not know the mechanics of how Y combinator guides its startups, there is one factor which truly stands out – the lack of a business plan (the paper one that is) but the focus on the prototype – the one thing which can increase your chance of success by 50% at least is seeing the workings of an early product. It’s a bit like knowing you’ve got a Ford supermodel in your teenage daughter when teenage boys are suddenly hanging around the house. What to you do? You send them off to American Idol (if she can hum a tune) or a beauty contest to test stuff out. That’s called the Demo Day in Y Combinator. The idea now sounds so cool, everyone wants to be one.
What about exits you ask? Yes, that’s tricky isn’t it. You can’t do this in Asia can you? Of course you can. Only if you make money
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The five whys in a startup http://bit.ly/9oOxyn
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Getting your OWN video web pages indexed on Google with video sitemaps. NEAT…
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Pivoting your business model. http://bit.ly/bb3Bkx
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his is the most useful Google chrome plugin ever! has SEO recommendations, page rank and all. Google is giving out good stuff http://bit.ly/aY0gSa
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Legal Liability for user generated content – guidance for EU companies – might be useful for countries like malaysia too http://bit.ly/cl5cg1
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Wipe out duplicate content in your wordpress blogs with this plugin http://www.seologs.com/?p=300
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The web developer’s guide to SEO http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-web-developers-seo-cheat-sheet
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The Malaysiakini New Media School is launched. http://school.malaysiakini.com/
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Google ventures is no longer about strategic investments.. http://bit.ly/a4qrxX
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Google’s own SEO F**K ups! http://bit.ly/crPDQC pls retweet