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10 Nov, 2008

Stop advertising, start teaching

Posted by: Bob Jansen In: Business| Internet

A moment ago this video of Jason Fried on getting your company an audience caught my attention. In this talk he explains how they’re using their knowledge to market their products.
I am fascinated about the way they share knowledge, I strongly believe this is a great way for small company’s to boost their potential. A [...]

24 Sep, 2008

Hapiness as your Businessmodel

Posted by: Bob Jansen In: Internet

Next week I need to give a small talk for some students in our school. It’s about Social Networks and how we at Firmhouse are using it to start building our company. We’ve got our theory on this and tested it with Tweetburner.
Now I remembered a great presentation by Tara ‘Missrogue’ Hunt. Don’t be scared [...]

01 Sep, 2008

Patent granting growing crazy!

Posted by: Bob Jansen In: Intellectual Property| Internet

One of the subjects I postponed to write about was Intellectual Property (IP). But I ran across this news that Microsoft is granted the patent for the page up and page down function buttons on your keyboard. The patent is granted August the 19th, this year. This triggered me to write about it today.
So what [...]

22 Aug, 2008

Start-ups vs. The Titans: Hyping

Posted by: Bob Jansen In: Internet

Recently Michiel and I founded Tweetburner, a web service for Twitter that allows users to shorten, post and track links on Twitter. At the moment it’s being developed with a focus more on statistics.
About a minute ago I was browsing my feeds and I stopped at Techcrunch. As always a lot of startup and technews [...]