Enter Venture - Latest Comments

Re: There are myriad ways to build traffic, just don’t use this one

Saurabh — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:42:38 -0000

Strangely some of these mails list a high page rank site and ask for a link to a different site.

Re: Crazy Egg tells you what your users are doing

Isis — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:56:07 -0000

I liked the concept of crazy egg, it's really very very interesting, thanks for the share.

Rina

Re: Financial crisis, startup opportunity. NYC developers, join a startup!

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Re: Have a website idea? Make it “real” with Balsamiq’s help

sEARch eNgIne opTimisation — Fri, 29 May 2009 06:04:20 -0000

Thanks Mike, that's a real insight, especially seeing the difference .... But I am a bit color blind, so the red and greens don't help me… .... As for the design, I think the "Topics" would have been better than the "Tags. .... Cool - you can now make your site traffic public with Google Analytics: ...

Re: Ativiti to bring templating to project management (and definition)

Live Lead Transfer — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:14:07 -0000

This project is really cool. Surely, it'll need a loan to have a capital. Hope this project will be a successful one.

Re: 10 Startup job websites

Isis — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:52:28 -0000

Thanks for the list, out of the list I am really very interested to work at LinkedIn and Craigslist, I hope the way to get a job there is not as tough as I think.

Rina

Re: Wisdom of Choice - A speech by Kai-Fu Lee

Isis — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:48:53 -0000

Wow! what a great speech, i liked the it, thanks a lot for sharing it, some of the points covered in the speech have really impressed me!

Rina

Re: 6 Reasons to puts ads on your site that have nothing to do with revenue

freestyle — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:55:40 -0000

Hey there, I find these 6 reasons really good, thanks a lot for posting them, I appreciate it.

Emma

Re: Have a website idea? Make it “real” with Balsamiq’s help

Jesse — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:14:48 -0000

I have an idea for a website, primarily to be based on traffic ad revenue like google adsense and amazon purchase referrals. So, it will make its money essentially on advertising.

But, I am not a very capable site builder or internet marketer.

Also, I want to spend as absoluteltly little money as possible on this venture. The Domain name that i want it to be is still available but i don't want to go spending the money on it until i know i can get this site completed.

I do know what I want for the site, but I need a partner to help me create it.
They have to be very capable in web design and internet marketing, but we would go in as partners. I am not asking but half and will help out in anyway possable.

Please email me if you are interested in hearing details on the plan and have comments, questions whatever.
Thanks

Re: My Whiteboard: the best $75 dollars I’ve ever spent

Guest — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:46:47 -0000

Have to say I do agree. Things like this just are what they are.

Re: MIXTT, the only place where you can ask out a whole crowd

James — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:03:37 -0000

Good post, thanks.

Re: Enter Venture gets personal

Patrick — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:45:49 -0000

Yes. It was the engineering version of a trip to "find" myself. :-)

Re: Enter Venture gets personal

Patrick — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:45:15 -0000

He. I actually do have hats hanging in my room. I've been getting used to the west coast, a new job, etc. I've obviously not been the best about blogging lately, but I'm working on it.

Re: Enter Venture gets personal

Mayur Karnik — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:53:39 -0000

Thats a nice write up man...:) hang my hat in san francisco, i liked that. Howz life?

Re: Crazy Egg tells you what your users are doing

gabel — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:39:15 -0000

found a good tutorial on http://www.morehelp.co.uk . you should check it out

Re: My Whiteboard: the best $75 dollars I’ve ever spent

Polarized Sunglasses — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:02:27 -0000

Really? it's the most valuable things in your room? There are a lot of stores you can bought a white board but that's an affordable one.

Re: Enter Venture gets personal

Dennis — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:22:59 -0000

Good "About Us" section Pat...especially interesting b/c I never actually knew what you were doing in India

Re: Have a website idea? Make it “real” with Balsamiq’s help

Patrick — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:35:27 -0000

Thanks for such a great product! It looks like I simply need to become more familiar with some of the extra features. Building something that's both simple and more advanced with use is certianly a feat.

Re: Have a website idea? Make it “real” with Balsamiq’s help

mark vernon — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:57:17 -0000

if you liked balsamiq, you'd probably like iplotz.com as well. Please try it out and let me know what you think.

Re: 6 Reasons to puts ads on your site that have nothing to do with revenue

Patrick — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:00:35 -0000

Thanks. You ran CULPA? That's great. It helped me navigate Columbia for the first few years.

I've found the same issue with Google vs. affiliate revenue. You'll at least see a trickle of revenue from Google, but the affiliate revenue might only come in bursts, if at all. For Wikinvest, I've been speaking to bloggers about advertising lately and most of them generally say the same. Of course, the best route to go is to sell your own ads, but that'll require me to post more than every week or so.

Re: Baveo helps you share your newborn’s precious moments

Ameda — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:06:01 -0000

Precious moments! yeah it does let you share youe newborns precious moments, great post, I loved reading it.

Re: 6 Reasons to puts ads on your site that have nothing to do with revenue

Jonathan Wegener — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:28:21 -0000

Hey Patrick, excellent post.

I especially like points #2 and #3 -- they're spot on. When I was running CULPA.info years back as a student, we had some heated arguments over whether to install ads and make money. I was passionately against it because I wanted CULPA to be entirely altruistic and not make money off the user's hard work (culpa is user generated content after all!)

Finally, I agreed to let my culpa colleague install google adsense and I signed up far a commission junction account and amazon affiliate (to send students to buy used books through half.com and amazon marketplace). We kind of had a gentlemen's bet about which would bring in more money: affiliate links or google's text ads. Google won.

Playing around with those products taught me so much about online advertising, marketing, and business in general. I learned all the terms you mentioned and more, and learned about the difficulties of sustaining a website through ads alone -- we made about $125/semester I think (which went into hosting fees and advertising the site on facebook). Anyway, I'm really grateful that I finally gave in to my insistent colleague and installed ads.

Re: 6 Reasons to puts ads on your site that have nothing to do with revenue

Abhimanyu — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:32:38 -0000

Really strong and sensible reasoning. And the new design is good too. Gives a concise and compact feel (it's probably the squares). And I like the empty ad idea - I think it will actually make people wonder, "do I have anything that I can advertise in that space?".

All the best!

Re: Gmail’s Tasks complete me.. err, my work stream

Patrick — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:42:57 -0000

Dave -- you're hitting on a great point; in fact, it's a point I originally had in my post but took out in some last minute editing. The thing I like about Tasks, for work, is that I can leave it with my work. Much like my notebook, I can keep work Tasks compartmentalized such that I only see them when I'm at the office (or anytime I fire up Gmail, which is essentially the same thing).

I don't think Tasks works quite as well for my non-work related Tasks -- so far, I don't have a good solution for that other than my whiteboard.

Re: Gmail’s Tasks complete me.. err, my work stream

David Whittemore — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:01:49 -0000

Hey Pat - while I love Gmail tasks' design and implementation, I don't like that I can't get it on my iphone. For non-job-related tasks, I do a lot of my task documenting and processing on the subway when I've got my iphone in my hand. It's also great to reference my tasks when I'm out and about or in a meeting. Any thoughts on Gmail Tasks' lack of a mobile version?

-Dave