Category: entrepreneurs

Student social entrepreneurs have more power

Posted by: Stephen Baker on June 11

I wrote an article this week about social entrepreneurship at Stanford, and specifically a 22-year-old named Josh Nesbit, who’s setting up health networks in Africa. (slide show) Health volunteers in…

LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman sits on his wallet

Posted by: Stephen Baker on April 21

Last Friday, I stopped by Reid Hoffman’s office at LinkedIn to ask him about the value of all those friends in his various networks. I’ll write up that interview later….

Kluster’s Ben Kaufman: On to “Quirky”

Posted by: Stephen Baker on April 10

Ben Kaufman came in today. He’s the 22-year-old entrepreneur I profiled a year ago when he was launching a startup called Kluster. Some would call Kaufman a serial entrepreneur. (He…

Meetup Applies Self Organizing to Itself

Posted by: Heather Green on June 06

A few weeks ago, I met Scott Heiferman from Meetup for lunch down in Soho. As we sat by a set of big floor to ceiling windows, watching some…

Petescaramels: How blogs fed candy biz

Posted by: Stephen Baker on February 29

Just learned about Peter Liebenson, who was still in high school when he hoisted up his candy business with blogs. (This isn’t a new story, but it’s new to me.)He…

Will writers strike lead to thousands of start-ups?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 12

Marc Andreessen argues that the writers strike in Hollywood will lead the scribblers to strike out on their own: As he sees it, Hollywood will drop the old-style and confrontational…

Hey, Marc: Excuses are a dime a dozen

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 26

Marc Andreessen laments that his $1.6 billion deal interfered with blogging.

Google Trying to Goose Widget Ecosystem

Posted by: Heather Green on June 28

This is interesting, via John Battelle. Google has created a new pilot program offering dough to folks who build popular gagdets, Google’s name for widgets. Gadgets are Google’s fastest growing…

Relative clout: BW vs. TechCrunch

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 22

I thought BW had clout, but Michael Arrington at TechCrunch appears to have a level of influence I have never seen at the magazine. He has made CEOs cry…

YouTube’s shining and dimming stars

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 29

Ever heard of Alvah C. Roebuck? How about the Woz? Both were nudged out of the spotlight by their more famous partners, Richard Sears and Steve Jobs. Now it looks…

Reconsidering What it Takes to Start a Company

Posted by: Heather Green on January 11

I missed Tom Evslin’s very thoughtful post earlier this week on why it costs more to start up a company now than had previously been thought. His take: despite the…

Shawn Fanning To Launch Rupture, an Online Gaming Community

Posted by: Heather Green on December 01

Shawn Fanning of Napster fame plans within the next month or so to launch Rupture, a virtual social community for online gamers. He raised seed money from a group of investors, including Ron Conway and Joi Ito.

As Om and Scoble depart, how does a company value a blogger?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on June 13

It’s only Tuesday, and already this week two big-time bloggers are picking up from their full-time jobs to position their abilities—and their brands—in startups. What do these career moves by…

Timeline on the report that AOL buys Weblogs

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 06

Blogs put together a timeline of the AOL-Weblogs Inc. deal while it’s happening

Blog sells for $2,000

Posted by: Stephen Baker on August 19

A blogger auctions his blog for $2,000. What would bigger blogs fetch?

Springtime…and Summer of Blog Networks

Posted by: Heather Green on June 30

Banner few months for emerging digital networks. Fred Wilson has a nice traffic roundup and John Palfrey announces investment fund for citizens media.

Asbestos and the art of blogging for money

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 27

A grand experiment to build an advertising business around a targeted asbestos site proves that blogging for bucks is hard work.