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Why Groupon could be bigger than Google

01.10.11 Posted in Entrepreneurship, Misc, Posts, Social Media, Technology by

A couple weeks ago I suggested in a comment on Hacker News that Groupon could one day be bigger than Google. This was the response I got: If there was ever a sign of a bubble, it’s this comment. Some local coupon startup thingy bigger than Google? u-huh. ~axod Now, I totally understand this sentiment. [...]

December 2010 Blog Income Report

01.04.11 Posted in Blogging, Entrepreneurship, Finances, Goals, News, Personal, Posts, Social Media by

I’ve been posting monthly income reports for a few months now and I thought I’d combine the December 2010 report with the overall report for 2010. You can read the November 2010 report here. December 2010 Blog Income Report Here’s November and December: The news here is mixed: I hit my goal of 20% growth [...]

7 things I learned about startups from Duke Fightmaster

12.29.10 Posted in Entrepreneurship, Inspiration, Posts, Social Media, Technology by

Odds are, you’ve never heard of Duke Fightmaster. And I know what you’re thinking: “There’s no one named Duke Fightmaster. No one normal anyway.” Well, there is a Duke Fightmaster (his real name), and no, he’s not normal. But his story is fascinating and offers some great lessons on tackling a huge challenge, dealing with [...]

My 2011 blogging plan

12.10.10 Posted in Blogging, Entrepreneurship, Finances, Future, Goals, Misc, Personal, Posts, Social Media, Technology by

I started blogging every day in early 2007, but I lapsed after a few months and then blogged on and off over the next few years. I don’t think I ever made more than a few dollars per month, until I started blogging again this year. In August 2010, I started a daily habit of [...]

21times startup sprint wrap-up

12.07.10 Posted in Development, Entrepreneurship, Goals, Inspiration, News, Personal, Posts, Social Media, Technology by

A week ago, we finished the 21times November Startup Sprint. For the month of November, we created a series of articles and blog posts from some of the best writers on the web with the goal of helping developers build and launch an app in 30 days or less. I’ve blogged about the course before, [...]

The essential skill you don’t want but desperately need as an entrepreneur

12.06.10 Posted in Blogging, Entrepreneurship, Posts, Social Media, Technology by

So you’ve launched your big project, but no one seems too interested. This might be the first time this has happened to you, but it’s pretty typical. Entrepreneurs often overestimate the difficulty of actually building their product, and severely underestimate the difficulty of getting anyone to care. The vast majority of web startups are not [...]

November 2010 Blog Income Report

12.01.10 Posted in Blogging, Entrepreneurship, Finances, Goals, Misc, News, Personal, Posts, Social Media, Technology by

You can read the October 2010 income update here. So here are the numbers for November: Adsense Amazon Total August $0 $41.40 $41.40 September $78.13 $18.15 $96.28 October $104.90 $80.33 $185.23 November $35.56 $639.40 $674.88 More good news: my blog income is up about 265% over last month.

Update on 21times

11.12.10 Posted in Development, Entrepreneurship, Inspiration, News, Personal, Posts, Social Media, Technology by

Less than two weeks ago, we launched http://hn.21times.org, an email course for programmers and developers who have accepted the challenge to launch an app in 30 days or less. We arranged for some amazing content from some of the best writers and bloggers out there to be delivered right to subscriber’s inboxes Monday – Friday, [...]

October 2010 Blog Income Update

11.11.10 Posted in Blogging, Entrepreneurship, Finances, Goals, Inspiration, News, Personal, Posts, Social Media, Technology by

About three months ago, I decided to end my hiatus from blogging and start posting Monday – Friday. I have a few other sites where I post, but 95% of my daily posts are on RyanWaggoner.com. I originally started blogging just for the sake of improving my writing and building a personal brand, but after [...]

How to defend good linkbait

11.10.10 Posted in Blogging, Misc, Posts, Social Media by

A popular tactic among a certain class of blogger is to write posts that are clearly designed to be linkbait, and then hide behind “clear and simple language” as your excuse. Step 1: State something untrue as a broadly-applicable statement of fact (“Startups who raise money are stupid and don’t understand business.”). Step 2: When [...]

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