The Life Sciences in New York State

My Squidoo page

I set up a page on Squidoo. I'm not sure how this will overlap with the blog, but I like to experiment.

Business Planning and Consulting for Pharmaceuticals and Biotech on Squidoo

Can bloggers make money?

I agree with Paul that the debate is indeed silly. Of course bloggers can make money! There are three ways a blog can make money.

Subscription - Someone pays to read your blog

Ads and Affiliates - Sharing in the revenue from having ads and links to affiliated products

Marketing - Blogs serving as ways to promote a product or service.

I fall into the third bucket. My blog has paid for itself because it has helped me start conversations with prospective clients. Can I make a living exclusively by marketing my practice via a blog? I doubt it.

Business is a contact sport. It requires contact via email, telephone, and face to face. Blogging is just another dimension for conducting conversations with friends, colleagues, and clients.

OK, back to work...

Can Bloggers Make Money?

Debt versus Equity for a start up?

Excellent post on the differences and preferences from an early stage VC perspective. Brad Feld also chimes in on the subject.

Widgets

TypePad has made available some widgets to add to blogs. I'll experiment with them for awhile. Please provide comments!

Search is primitive

Fred's correct. Search is definitely primitive. One feature I would like to see is better handling of results sorted by date. Many sites have today's date and time on them, but the content may be from 2002. Sorting results chronologically brings those pages to the top, which is useless. The latest information should be on the top of the list.

One thing I don't do is try different engines for different types of searches. I default to Google purely out of habit. Perhaps I should revisit that habit.

A VC: In Search of a Better Algorithm

Because as great an experience as searching the Internet is on Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, or Ask, Internet search is still a very primitive technology. Rarely is the first result of a search the best result for my needs, regardless of what engine I use.

Resume? What resume?

I've blogged about this before, that is, setting up web sites with rich content instead of a boring resume. Resumes re-imagined! I quote, with a hat tip to Seth Godin:

This is my not-so-subtle attempt to get the best advertising gig out there. You probably get thousands of boring resumes and cover letters every year... but it takes passion + know-how (and a free weekend) to do a website.

I graduate college in May 2006 with a Marketing degree, sixteen awards for my work + three years of real-world experience, including managing my own regional marketing plan. I'm ready to something remarkable with you. Read the testimonials from people I've worked with (and even lived with) over to the right. Then take a look at my accomplishments. While you're at it, how about a sneak peak at the resume?

Blogging lessons from a pro

Tips from a professional blogger.

18 Lessons I’ve Learnt about Blogging: Blog Tips at ProBlogger

He Hates PowerPoint

There's nothing wrong with PowerPoint. The bullet point-based templates are awful, the stock graphics are terrible, and the entire thing is really for managing text, not for creating graphical presentations. Other than that, it's fine...

Feld Thoughts

What does my del.icio.us tell you?

Brad Feld makes an excellent point regarding del.icio.us:

It dawned on me that my del.icio.us tag is akin to the first derivative of what I’m thinking about.  For a while, I struggled with tagging stuff as I didn’t get the benefit.  Now, I tag everything I read on line that I find interesting and am finding myself referencing my del.icio.us tags regularly to find stuff that I’d tagged a few days earlier (rather than going to Google and doing a new search – hmmm.) 

My del.icio.us feed is here.

Series on Top Mistakes by Entrepreneurs

Well, there you have it. I've posted a series of entries where I discuss what I think are SOME of the mistakes entrepreneurs make when seeking capital. Thanks to all of you who requested a PDF of the full article! I enjoyed writing and distributing this, so look for additional articles and snippets soon.