Entrepreneurial Links for April 17, 2007
Here are a few links to wet your entrepreneurial appetite and keep you going at those website empires that most of you are building.
1. The first link is a list of the 10 most successful web 2.0 startups to date. The requirement is that the sites be web 2.0 in nature (kind of a fuzzy requirement) but the list is great and shows some very organized data; Founders, date founded, monthly pageviews, and valuation. Some of the craziest numbers are…
Myspace gets 40 billion pageviews per month
Wikipedia’s target audience is 10-80
Digg was rumored to be in negotiations for $150 million
2. Here’s some great advice for a successful blog launch. I’m thinking of launching a few new blogs for the Blogtown Press Blog Network and this post was a great refresher course. It also obviously got dugg to the front page too. Some good points that I’m sure to follow this time around.
Don’t launch your blog without at least 5 posts… I’m going for more like 20 posts, or 30-50 posts in the saved post pile. I need to have consistent posting from the get go.
Include outbound links. I don’t really do this enough and it’s one of the great things about blogs. Especially when linking to a wordpress blog, who doesn’t look at their inbound links dashboard?
3. Here’s a sweet idea generator blog with fresh news about new business ventures. It’s called SpringWise.com. They have a ton ideas, not all really applicable to the low investment types. Some of the companies they profile would take a real investment team. But knowing what’s out there and what’s new can get you more in touch with your creative side!
4. I’m including this one because I wanted a good place to reference it besides my bookmarks section. It’s called the Startup Venture Toolbox and basically has a list with resources and an explanation about why should think about looking at those links. It’s like a startup checklist!