Archive for the “Startups” category
Hadoop, Pig, and Twitter
by adam on October 31, 2009
Hadoop, Pig, and Twitter (NoSQL East 2009)
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Facebook Ad Experiments Part 3: This Company Sucks
by adam on October 1, 2009
How do you know if you have found a market with unhappy customers ready for disruption?
Start your mining with a nifty tip via Eric Ries.
Take out an Ad on Facebook/Adwords using the name of the market leader “This Company” and [...]
Under The Radar
by adam on June 20, 2009
I am often fascinated by companies that manage to slip un-noticed past the Silicon Valley Hype Machine, while at the same time reaching great levels of success serving a main-stream market niche. These are the types of companies that [...]
Product Positioning Lesson Learned
by adam on April 27, 2009
Cuil: Positioned as Google Killer
Cuil is a stealth search engine startup which claims that it can index web pages significantly faster and cheaper than Google.
Outcome: Fail
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