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Riya2.0: When Web Commerce goes Hollywood
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello November 9th, 2006 in Innovation, Tech Musings, Tool, Web Resources, like.com, riya.com, riyarocks, visual search.Munjal Shah is a genius. Well to be more specific “Lisa and Laura” at his PR firm, are geniusi, geniuses. When was the last time you saw someone get front page promo in the WSJ and a profile on press release hit the wires (for an alpha application no less)? If you needed a sign [...]
What does it take to build a business that gets a whole meme named after it? How do you get to be part of the Web 2.0 goodness that has been exploding all over the media? I dont know, but the web does provide access to lots of people that do. I contacted 10 of them for their answers to these questions and more.
Firing up my email program, along with a bit of courage, I emailed the founders of 10 different companies a series of questions about how they started their businesses and any lessons they'd picked-up along the way. I expected to get a few cruel letters of rejection and disdain from some overworked PR flack distrustful of blogs and unsure of their validity or usefulness. Instead, six founders running some of the Webs most interesting companies (at least the ones I use most often) agreed to chat with me.
Score: Indie Blogger 1, PR Flacks 0! Continue reading ‘10 CEO’s, 5 Questions, 1 Big Insight’
What does it take to build a business that gets a whole meme named after it? How do you get to be part of the Web 2.0 goodness that has been exploding all over the media? I dont know, but the web does provide access to lots of people that do. I contacted 10 of them for their answers to these questions and more.
Firing up my email program, along with a bit of courage, I emailed the founders of 10 different companies a series of questions about how they started their businesses and any lessons they'd picked-up along the way. I expected to get a few cruel letters of rejection and disdain from some overworked PR flack distrustful of blogs and unsure of their validity or usefulness. Instead, six founders running some of the Webs most interesting companies (at least the ones I use most often) agreed to chat with me.
Score: Indie Blogger 1, PR Flacks 0! Continue reading ‘10 CEO’s, 5 Questions, 1 Big Insight’
Riya See’s Ya
2 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello March 23rd, 2006 in Innovation, Tech Musings, Web 2.0, riya.com, riyarocks.On Mar 21, 2006 at 8:14 am I received an email from Team Riya letting me know that Riya Beta had finally launched and that I should come play with the site. Having signed up to be part of the beta programs of about 75 unlaunched, over-hyped and VC funded sites I was somewhat [...]
Riya See’s Ya
2 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello March 23rd, 2006 in Innovation, Tech Musings, Web 2.0, riya.com, riyarocks.On Mar 21, 2006 at 8:14 am I received an email from Team Riya letting me know that Riya Beta had finally launched and that I should come play with the site. Having signed up to be part of the beta programs of about 75 unlaunched, over-hyped and VC funded sites I was somewhat [...]
