This is part of my ongoing series with Startup Advice. BEFORE YOU START. Example: Work Experience can be broken down into: has managed a team, has led direct sales efforts, has worked for a startup before, etc. 2.Create a process - Create a process that you’ll use to recuit people before you start. You have to be. MORE >>

I continually face the challenge of designing and building registration / sign-up pages on a wide variety of different web sites and mobile applications. That post looked at when and why you would use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. Here's a classic example that illustrates the issue - the sign-up page from Mahalo. MORE >>

Pasadena-based TweetUp , the Twitter advertising startup started by Idealab's Bill Gross, said this morning that it has added LinkedIn and Facebook updates as part of its service, and as a consequence changed its name to PostUp. Tags: tweetup postup linkedin facebook twitter search advertising idealab READ MORE>>. MORE >>

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs.  This blog post ended up on Valleywag (which had much bigger presence back then). Anyway, the starting point for this blog entry is a cartoon I remember reading in the New Yorker. Viral. MORE >>

Arnold Waldstein , who stops by periodically on my blog and always leaves relevant comments, made the observation that, “if I want to connect with you, I’ll engage with you on this blog …from there, a follow on Twitter, a link on LinkedIn are closing the loop of connection rather that opening a cold door.&#   This is so true. MORE >>