Startup Spark

August 27th, 2008

Stop asking me to swap links - it’s bad for business

It seems just about every day lately, someone is emailing me to request a link swap.
And I have to say to all of you: STOP!
I understand why you think swapping links will help you in your quest to be number one on the search engines. (It doesn’t… just read Rebecca Murtagh’s info on what makes […]

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April 1st, 2008

Need more time? Google has the answer!

Google launched a great new service today!  It’s called Gmail Custom Time, and it allows you to post date emails that you should have sent at a certain time, but for whatever reason, couldn’t.
According to Google, ally you have to do is:

Just click “Set custom time” from the Compose view. Any email you send to […]

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December 27th, 2007

The top three startup news stories of 2007

Although I started blogging for Startup Spark just a few months ago, I’ve been monitoring the news stories about startups and entrepreneurs for some time now. (Thank you Google News Alerts!)
I’d like to share with you a few of the top news stories that got coverage in 2007:
1) Microsoft threatens to sue startups. Back in […]

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December 26th, 2007

Startups your should watch in 2008

Wondering what startups are going to be the ones to watch in 2008?   Look no further than Wired Magazine’s annual list.
Of course, Wired’s  list are technology based companies, but it is pretty interesting:

23andMe

37Signals

AdMob

BitTorrent

Dash

Fon

LinkedIn

Powerset

Slide

Spock

But maybe the most interesting aspect of the story, which is just a little blip, is that what they feel can make such […]

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