Again, at this stage you are still primarily driven by qualitative research and ideas, and it’s hard for analytics to drive much of your thinking. If you liked this blog post, please recommend it to a colleague and/or click here to get updates via email or RSS . Written by Andrew Chen September 18th, 2008 at 8:00 am Posted in Uncategorized « Open mobile platforms and Facebook developer refugees Virtual Goods Summit 2008 + last week’s Twitter links »

I’m researching this subject pretty heavily. Can you imagine having a community of fans that’s so passionate about what you’re doing that they tattoo your image on their bodies? I interviewed Keith Malley and Chemda Khalili because they built that kind of community and I wanted to learn how they did it.

Pasadena-based Arrowhead Research, a publicly held firm commercialization technology in the life sciences, electronics, and energy markets, said today that it has raised $5.4M for a number of the firm's subsidiaries. According to Arrowhead, it raised $2.7M for investment in its subsidiary, Unidym, from strategic investor Tokyo Electron Ventures.

In our interview, Tony suggested you use these tools: SEO Book Keyword Research Tool , SEOMoz , Rank Checker and Competitive Analysis Tool , and sites that will link to you (be sure to use your own keywords). As one of the biggest content creators on the net, Yahoo wants to rank high in Google and other search engines. Tony Adam , Yahoo’s SEO Manager , is responsible for helping the company optimize so it could get more search engine traffic.

Do your due diligence - Before hiring a developer to build out your app, research them. If you want to grow your company’s audience by adding a social media app (on MySpace, Facebook and similar sites), listen to this interview first. I interviewed Jason Kiesel because MySpace believed in him enough to hire his company to build

Finally we get to: Peter Coffee , Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com His premise is that we should be beyond having to buy servers, software, or any other infrastructure. I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum . The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups.

Saturday, November 15, 2008 -- Design Innovation and Research Conference. See http://crito.uci.edu/DesignInnovationAndResearch/... mor

Entrepreneurs spend a lot of time researching their market and customers.  But, when it comes to raising money, they tend to approach anyone with a heartbeat!   The problem with this approach is that a large majority of the investors you pitch are simply not appropriate for what you are doing or where you are as a company.  So, any time you spend on them is wasted. 

Santa Monica-based ContentNext Media, the parent company of digital media publisher paidContent.org, said this morning that it has hired Lauren Rich Fine, CFA, as Research Director at the firm. ContentNext said that Fine will author research reports and briefing notes on the digital media industry for the firm. Fine joins the firm from Merrill Lynch, where she was a managing director ContentNext Media operates the paidContent.org, mocoNews.net, contentSutra.com and paidContent:UK web sites; the firm was acquired by Guardian Media in Jul

Josh is a Vice President and Principal Analyst with Forrester Research and Charlene was with Forrester when this book was written and released. My last few posts I have been talking about how using social media and communitiy development tools can help companies establish and/or grow their brands. So, I was reading Groundswell , a relatively new book, by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff.