Daily Reading from January 31, 2010

31 Jan 2010

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• Google on the desktop Google picks up Picasa, giving them an important foothold on people's PCs.
• Customer reference questions. Sample questions to ask customer references when choosing a software vendor.
• Lock-in is bad T-Mobile thinks they'll get new Hotspot customers with exclusive content and locked-in devices.
• Movie marketing on a budget Mark Cuban's looking for more cost effective ways to market movies.
• The importance of being good Starbucks is pulling CD burning stations from their stores. That says something interesting about their brand.
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• Rocket Watcher Product Marketing for Startups (www.rocketwatcher.com)
• Implementing Startup Metrics for Pirates – Part 2: Conversion Funnel « Boxed Ice Blog
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• We need an independent invention defense to minimize the damage of aggressive patent trolls - Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing
• Building Products for Mass Adoption
• 9 Startup Steps, Learned over 22 Years « Lance Walley
• Subscriptions are the New BLACK. (+ why Facebook, Google, & Apple will own your wallet by 2015) - Master of 500 Hats
• The Simplicity Test: A Simple Policy Guide for Job Growth (blog maverick)
• Empowering Your Team (A VC : Venture Capital and Technology)
• The Reality of Freemium in SaaS | Sixteen Ventures (sixteenventures.com)
• Being friendly has become a competitive advantage in VC cdixon.org – chris dixon's blog (cdixon.org)
• Admit It, Microsoft: You Suck at the Web – GigaOM (gigaom.com)
• Dear MBAs who want to work at startups | from This is going to be BIG! - Comments on New York Tech Community, Startups, Venture Capital and Career Education (www.thisisgoingtobebig.com)
• High Scalability - High Scalability - Have We Reached the End of Scaling?
• Startup therapy: More questions to force you to face reality (VentureBeat)
• Startup therapy: Six questions to ask yourself regularly (VentureBeat)
• Is the Tipping Point Toast?
• The Silver Thief
• WHY aren't there more consumer internet VCs w/ graphic design skills?
• Technology Review: Rethinking Voice as an App

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