The Price of An Aquisition To A User
Right now I’m reading my signed copy of Chris Anderson’s book ‘Free: The Future of A Radical Price’ which is fairly interesting. Having been in the startup space for a while I’ve tried to learn as much as possible about how startups monetize free websites. Interestingly, I had a conversation with a sales guy from [...]
Startup Metrics
At this weekend’s BarCamp I managed to miss my own discussion (it was part of the last flight of presentations that got cancelled due to time management issues that I will not go into, and both of Jared Goralnick’s presentations. The reason I missed one of his presentations was because it was a talk about [...]
The Functional Startup Founder’s Dilemma
If you have ever attended one of our Social Matchbox events you know that the playing field in the DC Startup Commmunity is anything but equal. You’ve got people who are riding on seed and angel investments courtesy of friends and family who contributed during the FFF (the “Friends, Family and Fools” stage of fundraising). [...]
Tagging Companies: Startup Company vs. Interactive Agency’
Every time we organize a Social Matchbox event we provide some very specific instructions about who can come and who can’t. A DC Startup Company can come, but a DC Interactive Agency can’t (unless they are accepted as a sponsor of the event). Unlike the rest of the events out there we curate the list of attendees to [...]
Being The Underdog Isn’t Always A Bad Thing
A few weeks ago I had a conversation with my friend Aaron Brazell who posted some reflections on that conversation over on technosailor today. It got me to thinking about what he and I talked about a bit more. My perspective then and now is that DC is where it is at and California is [...]
Will Your Next Role Be As A Startup Founder?
In recent years I’ve come to accept that more people in the software engineering community have side projects that they would like to escalate into startups at some point in the not so far off future. Some manage a dual life as a startup entrpreneur while they are holding down a full time job, some take on [...]
KISS vs. Overwhelmed
Do you ever wonder why a company with 3 employees has 10 pre-sets on their phone system? Press 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 and you get the same person. Press 6, 7, 8, or 9 and get the second person. Press 10 and get the 3rd person. A long time [...]
Review: UpMo.com “Career GPS”
It has been a while since we’ve reviewed a new career or hiring related product here on Jobmatchbox. A big part of the reason for that has been that there hasn’t been much that we’ve seen hit the market worthy of review. Sure there have been Facebook apps that push jobs to your inbox and [...]
Professional Ratings, Is YOURS next?
In today’s Washington Post, Kim Hart writes about flack that a Seattle, Washington based web publisher is getting for providing a user friendly attorney directory. I suspect that the flack is due largely in part to the professional ratings that come with the system. While I don’t like the idea of a ratings system for [...]
Southeastern Roadtrip
We’ve had the opportunity to tour much of the Southeastern US over the last few weeks and have a few thoughts to share. To begin with, the the obvious things are happening…economic hard times have presented themselves. The most obvious sign of this appeared when we visited a Wal-Mart store in Charleston, SC. We don’t have [...]
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