As many of you already know, I am no longer associated with Burrp!. But I do want to mention that today is the 1 year anniversary of the launch of the site. I have a lot of mixed feelings regarding how things went down earlier this year with my departure. In the [...]
As I indicated to everyone in an earlier post, we launched Burrp! this past Tuesday, August 15th. What I didn’t tell you guys is that we went with a “Soft Launch”. This basically means we launched a scaled down version of our site for the first iteration with much fanfare. What we [...]
After months of long hours, sleepless nights, and countless iterations, Burrp! has finally launched. Though this is still what we consider a public alpha, we plan on keeping a very aggressive release cycle with continuous updates and features. So far we have seen a lot of activity on the site with new registrations [...]
I just came across a post by Evan Williams (founder of Blogger & Odeo) titled Ten Rules for Web Startups. Considering Evan’s past success, his list is definitely worth reading. Much of what he has to say certainly resonates in today’s environment. I especially look at #5, #6, and #9 on the [...]
Today I was thinking about ways to tighten the Burrp.com launch schedule. There is so much we have to get accomplished before we push out an alpha to our set of early release users. I was extremely happy with our progress of content boot strapping. I thought we were extremely well organized, [...]
This is probably the most I’ve ever been involved with marketing a product. Though I have worked with Google Ad Words, done online demos, etc., none of it compares to what I’m doing at Burrp!. This is new territory to me, but I find the topic to be very exciting and interesting. [...]
One of the major issues we are facing with Burrp.com is the challenge of generating enough capitol to expand our content offerings. We are also trying to get things out the door as fast as possible. And that requires surge resources. Fours years ago I read a great book by Jim Clark called Netscape Time. [...]
After three and a half years, I have finally decided to start blogging again. The last time I was at this stuff barely anyone knew what blogging was. Hell, I even wrote my own blog tool using ASP 3.0 and Access. How times have changed!! Though I have set up blogs for several friends and [...]
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