Pajama Entrepreneur

Marc Andreessen has posted an excellent piece on why not to do a startup, part one of his series on his guide to startups. The stress, hiring and firing people, the hours, battling with co-founders and investors can drain the joy out of even the most devoted entrepreneur. But, I am an optimist and I [...]

I was having breakfast yesterday with Alexander Casassovici, a young entrepreneur from Paris, who was in Amsterdam for the Nextweb conference. Alexander’s startup Wavestorm develops technology for the “Internet of Things” — machine to machine communications via Wi-Fi. We were talking about how this tech “bubble” is different from the first one in the late [...]

Here are the first eight chapters on turning your blog into a media company. They are based on my experience as the founder of Muniwireless.com.
Part 1: birth of Muniwireless
Part 2: first year of Muniwireless
Part 3: finding a business model
Part 4: the Ninth Circle of Hell
Part 5: becoming a niche online publisher
Part 6: miracles happen [...]

I came across the Open Coffee Club for entrepreneurs, which is located in cities around the world. Local entrepreneurs create clubs on Meetup.com or Upcoming.org and meet.
When I saw this mentioned on Read Write Web, I thought, “The bubble is back. This looks like First Tuesday.” But I will be going to our local coffee [...]

So how did Microcast take Muniwireless to the next stage, from a blog to a vertically integrated media company (as I mentioned in part 6)? What is Microcast’s business model? Sam Whitmore, who runs Sam Whitmore’s Media Survey interviews Joe Panettieri of Microcast. Sam writes:
Take a look at MuniWireless.com. It’s fronted by blogger Esme Vos, [...]