Posted on January 26th, 2009 by Nathan Burke
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been kicking around the thought of having some kind of event series focused on startup marketing. The idea is to get a bunch of Boston-area tech entrepreneurs together to talk about the challenges they face in getting past all the noise and getting their products/services noticed. I’ve been reaching [...]
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Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by Nathan Burke
Lately I’ve been noticing a trend: startups that have offered free membership to their sites are now going pay-only. Even sites that have been built on the "freemium" model (free membership with feature limitations or pay memberships with unlimited use) are ditching the "free" part of their offering. While these startups are blaming the free [...]
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Posted on January 9th, 2009 by Nathan Burke
Demotix is a UK-based UGC photo news site that connects photographers and videographers with mainstream media. Since there’s a growing number of "citizen journalists" (people with cell phone cameras, digital cameras, flip videos, etc.), there are great newsworthy photos taken by amateurs every day that never make it to mainstream media sources. Demotix describes it [...]
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Posted on January 5th, 2009 by Nathan Burke
BlogTalkRadio, the site that lets users record and broadcast live podcasts, has updated their UI and added some excellent new features. I’ve used blogtalkradio a lot in the past, and absolutely love it. The fact that you can sign up, call a phone number, and create a live multi-user podcast with audience interaction….all for free [...]
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Posted on December 31st, 2008 by Nathan Burke
As a startup, it makes sense to do awards submissions. One of the biggest ones out there is “The Crunchies”, a competition put on by TechCrunch to award the best startups and internet/tech innovations of the year. This is the second annual competition, and final voting just started. This afternoon I got the following email [...]
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Posted on December 19th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
So, I was super excited when my blog post “Top 10 Tips To Get Your Startup Noticed” over on marketingstarups.com started to pick up steam. I got a lot of great feedback and comments, and even had to change my bandwith limit three times. In the post, one of my tips was to submit your [...]
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Posted on December 16th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Today, telonu launched the public beta of their service, a community site where users can talk about their employer anonymously. The site mixes reviews and ratings of companies with networking features. From their press release: Telonu Inc. today announced the beta launch of its free user generated content community website, www.telonu.com focused on the workplace. [...]
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Posted on December 11th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
My article, entitled “Content and Communications Companies Dominate WebInno 20“, is now available on Media Bulliseye.
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Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Tribesmart is a UK social shopping site that is all about “drawing on your collective experiences to provide a content packed website which helps others find the most innovative, quirky, durable, useful, green, stylish and fun products according to you – the tribes.” Essentially tribesmart is a community-driven site based on product reviews. Users add [...]
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Posted on December 8th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
For the last few weeks, I’ve been playing around with a super-secret ultra stealth, invite-only beta called sponty. The quick pitch: Sponty’s mission is to make you and your friends hangoutable. It’s a Tuesday evening. You want to go to the movies. Of course, you’d rather go to the movies with your friends. You can [...]
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