RWW Live: Running a Startup in a Down Economy

In the first RWW Live of 2009, we tackle an issue that is of vital importance to all startups right now - how to navigate through the choppy waters of the current economy.

Joining the ReadWriteWeb authors, our special guests on our live podcast show are entrepreneurs from BrightKite and Zoho, two startups that were recognized by ReadWriteWeb in our annual end of the year awards: Zoho won ‘Best Little Co’ and BrightKite won ‘Most Promising Little Co’.

 

In the podcast, we discuss the lessons our guests have learned over the last year and how they plan to continue growing in 2009.

Here are the details of our guests in this show:

  • Sridhar Vembu, CEO, Zoho
  • Raju Vegesna, Evangelist, Zoho
  • Martin May, co-founder, BrightKite
  • Brady Becker, co-founder, BrightKite

Hope you enjoy this episode of ReadWriteWeb Live!

 

 
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RWW Live Special: 2008 Year in Review

For the final RWW Live show of the year, the ReadWriteWeb writers get together to review the year in Web technology. We discussed

  • the highlights of 2008: the top Web companies, the biggest technology trends — including an especially good conversation on open versus closed system,
  • and finally what to expect on the Web in 2009.

Beyond the RWW experts: Marshall Kirkpatrick, Sarah Perez and Richard MacManus we were joined by Allen Stern of Center Networks and Kevin Marks of Google.  A special thanks to both of them for jumping in at the last minute.

 
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RWW Live: Shopping 2.0

In this episode of RWW Live, ReadWriteWeb talks to a group of leaders in the online shopping market.  We have executives from Retrevo, ModCloth, Baynote, ThisNext and Cartfly on the call to discuss what’s next in online shopping in this timely holiday podcast.

 Joining the regulars from RWW Live were:

  • Jack Jia, founder and CEO, Baynote, a collective intelligence platform for online shopping, featuring recommendations and social search.
  • Eric Koger, CEO, ModCloth, an online retailer of vintage, indie, retro and mod clothing.
  • Andrew Eisner, Director of Community and Content, Retrevo, a “matchmaking service for people and electronics”.
  • Kurt Collins, VP of Business Development, Cartfly, a social commerce store network that enables online merchants to turn their storefronts into portable widgets and distribute them across major social networks.

RWW Live is hosted as always by Sean Ammirati and ReadWriteWeb editor Richard MacManus.

 
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Semantic Web Gang: Discuss the launch of Glue

Last week, we sat down with part of the team from Adaptive Blue and talked about (among other things) their new product Glue.

The team has definitely been on the ‘podcast circuit’ as today the next edition of The Semantic Web Gang was published (we syndicate SWG) and also discusses Glue.   [Note: Alex Iskold, Adaptive Blue’s CEO, is a regular participant on the Semantic Web Gang, so this isn’t really surprising.]

Beyond discussing Glue, Gang members discuss their perspectives on the events, trends and companies that excelled in 2008… and those with work still to do.

 
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Adaptive Blue: Glue

On this episode of ReadWriteTalk, we sit down with some of the team from Adaptive Blue and discuss their new product Glue.   Specifically, joining us on this episode are:

On the episode, we talk about:

  • Adaptive Blue’s vision and what drew each guest to the company.
  • Glue: the new product recently launched
  • Adaptive Blue’s technology and architecture
  • Lessons learned from their experience running a company built on the browser platform

Links from the Show:

 
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RWW Live: Health 2.0

ReadWriteWeb has been tracking the so-called ‘health 2.0′ trend for some time now. We’ve covered the top health web apps, the trends to watch in health 2.0, and the latest industry stats.  And this morning we published a Health 2.0 update.

In this week’s episode of RWW Live, the ReadWriteWeb authors get together with a number of industry experts to discuss how the Web is changing health care.  The industry experts include:

 
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RWW Live: Online Tools for Career Discovery & Job Searching

We recently launched a new product, Jobwire, to track who has been hired for new jobs in tech and new media. In this week’s episode of RWW Live, we  discuss the state of online tools for career discovery and job searching.  Joining the regulars from RWW Live were:

  • Charlie O’Donnell, co-founder and CEO of Path 101, a “Community Powered Career Discovery” service.
  • Paul Forster, co-founder and CEO of Indeed, a search engine for jobs.
  • Dion Lim, President & Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Simply Hired, also a job search engine.

 
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This edition of RWW Live is sponsored by our main Jobwire sponsor VisualCV:

Semantic Web Gang: Discuss the launch of Twine

In October’s edition of the Semantic Web Gang, a full complement of regulars is joined by Radar Networks‘ CEO Nova Spivack and Chief Architect Jim Wissner in a discussion of Twine.

Unveiled at the Web 2.0 Summit in November 2007 and released in beta earlier this year, version 1.0 of Twine was opened to the world toward the end of October, and widely reported (See RWW coverage of Twine.)

In this discussion we touch upon the purpose of Twine, review the first few days of live operation, and then focus upon the team’s plans for the future.

When originally announced, Twine was closely associated with the Semantic Web, although the company’s current marketing is less quick to make that link. In conversation we discover more about priorities for the 1.0 release and dig into some of the ways in which semantic technologies will play an increasingly important role moving forward.

 
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RWW Live: Online Personal Finance

You can’t turn on the TV, visit Yahoo Finance or pick up the Wall Street Journal without hearing about the economic crisis we’re in. It’s caused most of us to step back and look at our own financial situation.

In this episode of RWW Live, we look at how you can use Web tools to improve your personal finances. We have executives from Mint, Wesabe and Tip’d joining us. Join the regulars from RWW Live, plus:

  • Aaron Patzer, Founder and CEO of Mint, a popular online money management service.
  • Gabe Griego, Vice President of Marketing at Wesabe, a “part money management tool, part community” service.
  • Mu Saleem, Community Director of Tip’d, a new online community “for financial news, ideas, and tips”.
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RWW Live: Mobile App Development

On this episode of RWW Live we chat about Mobile Web Development and have guests from Microsoft, Pandora and DevelopmentNow join us.   A lively conversation ensued about building apps for mobile devices.  It was particularly interesting to have everyone (including Loke from Microsoft) talk about how revolutionary the iPhone has been.   Specifically the guests for the call were:

 
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Note: We also had Dan Morrill Developer Advocate for Google Android confirmed, but he was unable to join last minute.

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