Online Media Cultist

Jason Calacanis is the CEO of Mahalo.com, “a human powered search engine,” as well as the former co-founder of Weblogs, Inc. and GM of Netscape. His latest mission (quest?) is to ensure that entrepreneurs are never forced to pay to pitch to angel investment firms. Jason was kind enough to provide his take via e-mail on [...]

via onstartups.com Pretty interesting stats about entrepreneurs from a report called The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur.

I get deal pitches daily.  I want all of you to understand the code words that IMHO are sure fire signs that the entrepreneur has no idea what they are doing and is destined to fail.  This is from an email today, redacted of course to protect the guilty.  My interpretation of the letter is [...]

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I strongly believe in the notion of the microstartup, as defined in a Jason Calacanis essay back in November 2008 called The Future of Startups. Here’s the short definition: The zero cost startup has led to the age of the “microstartup.” It’s no longer two folks in a garage hoping to build a prototype in order [...]

Whether you help run a web-based startup, are a member of an online production team, or earn your living in part by understanding how things get done on the web, it’s important to get a sense of how the most innovative Internet companies create their products and build their businesses today. Even though the current economic [...]

I’ve been throwing the term “post-web 2.0″ around lately mostly as a means of discussing what’s going on right now and what will come next. We know what’s happening now (in part): the economy is shaky, funded start-ups are scrambling to get cash flow positive, and the overall attitude in the Internet industry is less [...]