My Dots for Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Seattle Bubble: Seattle is Different. We’re Totally Immune.

a challenge to the prevailing wisdom that seattle is somehow ‘different’ from other cities when it comes to job growth and hence housing demand.

granted, this is only point but interesting nonetheless.

[tags: seattle, real estate]

Seth’s Blog: The billion-dollar question–Joe Schmo wins

good point.

Quoted: In order to make this work, the big ad networks need to tell you where the traffic is coming from and they need to make it easy for you to choose where to run the ads next time so you can repeat and scale the process.

[tags: seth, advertising]

iLike Growing Quickly, Still Massively Trailing Last.fm

Quoted: Later today music social network iLike will report that they’ve reached half a million registered users in the first four months since launching. What won’t be disclosed, but I’m hearing from insiders, is that around 20,000 new users are joining daily.

[tags: ilike]

ABC News: Al Gore Will Not Only Run, but He Can and Will Win in ‘08

Quoted: So wait, he’s hip, he’s brilliant, he’s highly experienced. Is America ready for a real leader after two terms of a guy who makes Jim Carrey’s “Dumb and Dumber” character seem downright cerebral? You bet your asinine Bush-isms it is.

[tags: news, politics, al gore]

What’s The Optimal Number Of Co-Founders For A Startup? 2.09!

Quoted: At a minimum, you need one technology co-founder and one sales, distribution “find the customer” co-founder. The rest (marketing, finance, ops and other stuff) can be divided up based on who likes to do what.

[tags: startups, Entrepreneurship, founders]

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