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Godin's company is Squidoo. It's an odd little web page builder thing. A "Lens" is what he calls a "page". Because if he called it a page, then no one would care. Now almost no one…

>> It reads like a load of over-dramatized crap. All of Godin's work is over-dramatized crap. That's his shtick.

"One disadvantage of living off the revenues of your company is that you have to keep running it." that's an odd "disadvantage", Paul. It implies that running my company is somethi…

is techcrunch spamming YNews? why would copies of the same story be at the top of the news list?

you mean like 37Signals? ok, they're in chicago, not iowa (same thing, right?) But they didn't have connections until they created bitchin products. The connections are the easy pa…

Here's the only answer you need: It doesn't matter. You can make it work. You're a motivated developer/entrepreneur. You'll be fine. Work whichever variables (roommates, location, …

Dude, quit your job.

haha! I love those aging commies at the Guardian.

Here's two random data points for you: 1. I, coincidentally this morning, just asked my first question on LinkedIn. I had my first answer in 25 minutes. Done. 2. S&P runs a service…

You mention 'market research groups' and maybe that's your differentiation niche. Some statistically sound methodology that Google and LinkedIn and Yahoo don't provide. Then you ca…

So you've got 2500 unique visitors this month doing 50k page views. general, social network traffic might generate $1-2 cpm so that's $100/month in revenue. if you have a high valu…

what about Inkling? they're in chicago, which is a decidedly lesser startup hub.