Normally the product is defined as a web site. Most founders are fairly passionate about the features and functions of the web site, iPhone application, Facebook application, or whatever web application represents the product. What applications and web sites have you been using? I talk to a lot of founders of startups. My initial conversations normally focus on the core of the business, important Startup Metrics , probably marketing strategy (ex.

There are 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web , in no weighted order they are: Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site. Referring Traffic / Press - The web is interconnected, and traffic flows among sites that interlink. “If You Build It…They Will Come” may work for historical baseball ghosts, but it’s not a strategy you can rely on when starting an internet company. Driving traffic to your website is a formula

If you've watched my past interviews, you know that I'm obsessed with interviewing companies that are actually charging their users (as opposed to hoping to profit from ads). I want to learn how they do it. Don't you?

Tags: Web analytic No matter how much you use marketing analytics, you could probably be doing more. Mila Mila D'Antonio at Think Customers: The 1to1 Blog reports that Garther, the consulting and analyst firm, says that many of the largest companies will miss opportunities because of under funding their analytical processes: Gartner reports that through 2012 more than 35 percent of the top 5,000 global companies will fail to make insightful decisions about

You can't read, view or listen to any news media channel (Web mostly of course because mainstream old news media pretty much discounts Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Tags: digital tech Twitter Web 2.0 and vice versa...just just like viewers ignore Katie Couric ... but I digress) without seeing articles/blogs relating to social networking, VC "overheated

Fantastic post by Dion Hinchcliffe - Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know . Raises some interesting points, but the general theme is: just figure out ways to get it to happe

Just the kind of person I like to meet. :) But I was a bit surprised when he emphasized how hard it had been for them to find a web developer in Los Angeles. My flippant comment was, “If you do a Google search for Los Angeles web developer, you’ll find a LOT of people and firms.” His response was that he had done exactly that, but that the long list is not all that useful. Web design typically refers to Yesterday, I met with someone at the early stage of a startup. He has a great concept with some complexity to it.

I went to an event by Amazon on their Amazon Web Services in Santa Monica today. The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The S3 system is not a transactional object system, it's for larger objects, larger updates. The EC2 is very similar to having a Linux box in a colocation facility.

If you want to vote for this interview on my favorite new site, click here . --AW AW I know that I'm not blowing your mind by telling you that Thrillist is making $5 million through its email-based newsletter for affluent men. You've probably read about it on other sites. I didn't invite Ben Lerer, the company's co-founder, to Mixergy just so ...Tags:

But it was not until the last couple years that I updated my skills and capabilities in web development. They have a custom implementation of CPanel, so it is really easy to add a domain, install and upgrade dozens of popular free and open source web apps like Wordpress or Drupal with just a couple of clicks with Fantastico. It includes the LAMP stack ( Linux OS , Apache web server , MySQL database , and PHP ) which any worthwhile web hosting is going to provide, I first started messing around with HTML in DreamWeaver and Claris Home Page around 1999 to put up my own music website.