This item caught my eye this morning as I scanned my Reader account: “Mozilla officially launched its new Thunderbird focused spinoff Mozilla Messaging yesterday with David Ascher as CEO. Mozilla Messenging begins with the proposition that e-mail is broken, with its goal being to fix it.” I’m currently working with or have recently heard a continue…
Q: Chris, how do you determine failure and success? Judy’s Book was a failure but why? Because Yelp had more traffic and momentum? Because it won’t return VC’s capital? What would have defined success? Posted by nikiscevak A: Hi Niki – great questions (and welcome to Askablogr!). In my little universe of ‘for-profit Web business’ continue…
I’m not sure where I got that line, but it’s a pretty good bet it was my brother (who’s one of the best skiers I know). The same formula applies to startups: if you haven’t had a blowup yet you’re probably not trying hard enough. I was reminded of this by a couple of posts continue…
Yesterday was Askablogr’s 1-month birthday, and in keeping with my “Open Startup” promise, here’s a little stats update. Last week was a great week for the site. I got distracted by real life in early February and stopped fanning the Askablogr flames for a while, with predictable results. But then Craig shipped WordPress support, which continue…
Q: So does the ask from a button really work? Posted by Craig Huizenga A: Hey Craig, looks like it does! This is a new feature that allows every Askablogr member to receive questions from their Askablogr profile page, in addition to the questions they receive through their blog widget. So if you wanto to continue…
Q: Chris: When I responded to your question I somewhat expected it to show up on my blog as a post. That did not seem to happen. Am I doing something wrong or was a just offbase on the functionality? Posted by lance A: Hey Lance, if you completed the full install it should have. continue…
John’s easily the best local writer on the Seattle startup and early-stage investing scene, so I was very flattered to read the great piece he published on Askablogr this afternoon. I’ll do a full stats dump shortly but after a pretty quiet stretch the signup and visit numbers on the site are starting to pick continue…
Q: Chris,John Cook here at the P-I. I sent you an e-mail, but maybe this is the better way to chat. When did you launch the site? How do you plan to make money or is it a side project? Competitors? Posted by jcook A: Hi John, great to see you on Askablogr! I just continue…
I’ve been neglecting Askablogr lately (and the Urchin numbers show it), but Craig just sent me a note to say that we now support WordPress (in addition to our launch support of Blogger and TypePad). So all you WordPress users out there (and you know who you are), consider yourself invited…
A while back I promised to extract some nuggets from my recent holiday read of Poor Charlie’s Almanack; The Wit and Wisdom of Chares T. Munger. I started with the easy one, my favorite excerpts from Charlie’s Investment Principles Checklist, but my next project was to do the same with Talk Ten, “The Psychology of continue…