Making Search Persistent For a good number of topics we search on the web today, we are repeatedly doing the same search all over again. Weather report for Tahoe in the winter, apartment rental listings on craigslist and mortgage rates are common examples that come to mind. Everytime I am searching for such topcis, I [...]

This is really good presentation from Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz covering the core aspects of what matters in SEO and how startups can think about it to make it their competitive advantage. Click here to check it out. It was presented at the first YCombinator conference to all the YC founders. Based on my experience [...]

The Obama campaign focused on simplicity, consistency and relevance during their nearly two-year march to the White House. They understood the glut of noise their message needed to cut through to be received, and their relentless focus on crafting a sticky message made it simple for voters to hear, believe and share with others. And [...]

I got tired of remembering all the different things one must do to build followers on twitter, tweet interesting stuff that spreads with RTs to build your twitter account into a solid distribution channel for correctly marketing your startup’s updates. More importantly, I like to share everything I know with the startups that we incubate [...]

On Friday night, I stumbled across John Borthwick’s post titled Creative Destruction…Google Slayed By The Notificator? via Fred Wilson’s blog. I must say I totally enjoyed it, and John did a wonderful job of articulating the concept of creative destruction with some great examples. ….I now see search as fragmenting and Twitter search doing to [...]