Pinterest Drives Enormous Blog and Business Success This is Kate. She’s a hairstylist, jewelry maker, and all-around crafter based in North Carolina. Kate started her blog (thesmallthingsblog.com) exactly one year ago. Pinterest is the hottest social media platform around right now. And there is an important social element too as you can comment, like, share, email content, and search based off of your customized interests. If you snoop around Pinterest, for a little while, chances are you’ll run into a high-quality image of a beautifully coiffed hairstyle from Kate. “I pinned a photo of a completed style, which directed Pinterest users back to my blog to watch the tutorial video. “Almost daily I get a comment or email saying ‘I found you on Pinterest!’ Kate believes her success comes down to a careful balance between her original content and self-promotion for her blog and business. “I think there is a fine line between self-promotion and obnoxious self-promotion. How about you?
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The Long Tail Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:46:19 “Priced and Unpriced Online Markets" by Harvard Business School professor Benjamin Edelman. Discusses tradeoffs in market such as email, IP addresses, search and dial-up Internet. "Reminiscent of the old adage about losing money on every unit but making it up in volume, online markets challenge norms about who should pay, when, and why." I found this typically academic: dated, dry and pretty unilluminating. Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:53:50 From Mashable: “Freezly is a lot like Tweetmeme in that it finds link and tweets and shows you their popularity based on retweets. Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:08:25 From Cellular News. Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:54:23 From the LA Times: “Industry insiders estimate that since 2007, revenue for most adult production and distribution companies has declined 30% to 50% and the number of new films made has fallen sharply. Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:07:00 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:09:38 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:37:31 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:26:19 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:42:05
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TechCrunch Do investors ever invest in a pre-revenue and pre-product company? | Josh Hannah All the time! Historically (i.e. before ~2006) this was the explicit role of angel investors in the startup financing ecosystem. Rarely, in fact, would angel investors have an opportunity to invest after a product and revenue were in place. For consumer internet and SaaS enterprise deals, a lot has changed in the last few years. As a general rule today, angel investors are expecting to see a product, and customers (or at least users) in place before they invest. However, there is still a role for angel (and, in fact, VC) pre-product: If superstar proven entrepreneurs want to raise money before building product, they can and will. I personally find the third category super interesting. This question was asked to me directly on Quora, and I thought I would copy my answer here on the blog.