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13 things to tell startups by Paul Graham

Great post by Paul Graham from Y Combinator
1. Pick good cofounders.
Cofounders are for a startup what location is for real estate. You can change anything about a house except where it is. In a startup you can change your idea easily, but changing your cofounders is hard. [1 ] And the [...]

Posted 23 February 2009 † dhelmreich § ‡ Comments (0) °

Display Advertising and the Scale of Economics

Fred and Brian –
All good points, and I think many of the individuals on here would be ecstatic (and simultaneously mortified) if display can ultimately outperform search. It would dramatically change the lead generation industry and finally threaten the large search giants.
My experience with the networks is similar to Brian’s [...]

Posted 13 January 2009 † dhelmreich § ‡ Comments (0) °

Heard on the Street: “What Interested Me While I Was Losing Money This Week”

What Interested Me This Week – 10/10/2008
Macro & Markets
· Increasing signs of no V-shaped recovery
· Is this really the 4th weekend of crisis meetings?
· G7/G20 meet to this weekend to save the world (again)
· Unprecedented use of the word “unprecedented”
· [...]

Posted 10 October 2008 † dhelmreich § ‡ Comments (0) °

Google Labs launches “Mail Goggles”

Google labs has come up with "Mail Googles" : another interesting feature that allows you to insert a quick, but rudimentary math problem during late night email sessions.  Hopefully to prevent the inevitable drunken email rampage.
"Hopefully Mail Goggles will prevent many of you out there from sending messages you wish you hadn’t. Like that late [...]

Posted 07 October 2008 † dhelmreich § ‡ Comments (0) °

CEA – Trends to Watch Heading Into 2008

Sean DuBravac, Chief Economist, CEA
Things are continuing to improve – the transition from Analog to Digital is alive and well.  Everything is getting faster slammer, clearer, with greater capacity and cheaper.
Further integration of devices, accessories, content, services network and community continue to be aligned and integrated from the beginning of the solution and product launches.   [...]

Posted 26 June 2008 † dhelmreich § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

ad:tech SF 2008 Schedule

I have been following www.sched.org since SXSW and am happy to see them aggregate the ad:tech schedule for next week.
I’ve completed and posted mine for what it is worth:
http://adtech-sf08.sched.org/dhelmreich

Posted 07 April 2008 † dhelmreich § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: