I’ve written about Google’s Data Liberation Front before … They are the nice people dedicated to making sure its as easy to get your data out of the cloud as it is to get it in . A beefed up export feature for Google Docs now allows you to convert, zip and download multiple files in a couple simple steps. You can zip up to 500MB of files (more than almost Today they announced a new feature worth acknowledging.  Just one more reason Google Apps is a great MS Office substitute for most people and organizations…

Darrin went on to work at Geographic Data Technologies (now Tele-Atlas), a job with I called his “do it yourself MBA,” because he went into it with a determination to fill in the gaps in his business knowledge. - When Google opened up its mapping API it made Maponics’s Flash-based idea less appealing. - After Google came out with The first company he founded failed, but now Darrin Clement is running a multi-million dollar mapping business that he founded and bootstrapped. How did he go from having to close down his previous company to winning so many

Search engine giant Google said Thursday that it is exiting from the radio advertising business, putting an end into the firm's attempt to leverage its online advertising success into other media. Google--which pulled the plug on its newspaper advertising efforts on January 20th--said the move came because the radio advertising efforts did not have "the impact we hoped for." Google entered the radio advertising market with the buy of Newport Beach-based dMarc Broadcasting in January of 2006. That deal--which was worth $102M in cash plus up to $1.1

and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, If you don’t understand why this is important I encourage you to do a little Google research.  Tags: Startup Advice startup technology vc venture capita This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice . I

We’re living in the age of modern technology and there is no way to crowdsource someone’s penis or vagina? Word of mouth works great from everything to marketing to OH MY GOD GET A SNUGGIE RIGHT NOW and yet I can’t Google my date’s name and see if his previous dates enjoyed kissing him or sleeping with him or even spending a dinner with him? I’ve found the straw that’s breaking the camel’s back when it comes to bridging I mean, what the hell is that about?

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. Background This post partly really came about as a result of a great conversation yesterday with David Croslin a former CTO at HP who recently conducted an interesting experiment. He posted on several social networking sites the following message: If you know of a startup company that could benefit from the knowledge, experience, professional

We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 They get paid to say, “Company X is the new FriendFeed” just 2 days after Google acquires FriendFeed.  That Tags: Start-up Advice startup technolog This is part of my ongoing series “Start-up Lessons” Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50.  Worth

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Google's new Ad Manager technology will soon enable premium ad banners to be sold directly to advertisers by publishers and when the clicks are used up on the premium ads it will revert automatically to use Google Adsense. Clicks are usually sold via banners and text ads at a 2x to 4x premium cutting out Google. This is a brilliant move and will further accelerate the gap between premium content and generic publishers who don't provide any unique content value. I

My interests run a pretty wide range so expect to find me talking about anything from the Project Management to Wireless Technology and Consumer Electronics to the Mythbusters. Today’s topic, and a personal favorite is Google Apps.  Here at Startup Army we’re using a combination of Google Apps and Microsoft Office to keep ourselves organized and productive.  Hey Everybody! [Pause Pause for Simpsons Fans] The team has been on my case to get on this whole blogging thing and the time has arrived.