The Crate & Barrel Story

vaibhav — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:35:50 +0000

I revisited a 2001 story about Crate & Barrel CEO Gordon Segal’s speech at the ICSC Spring Convention and found it a lot more inspiring and useful to read it all over again now. In 2001 I was in the early stages of my first startup that I had started with a few senior cofounder and now I am running my second startup which I am driving almost single handedly. There are lots of words of wisdom for entrepreneurs in this story and I’d recommend you read the whole thing. Here is one of Gordon’s quotes which is very valuable

Top Twitter Tips For Startup Founders

vaibhav — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:10:22 +0000

I got tired of remembering all the different things one must do to build followers on twitter, tweet interesting stuff that spreads with RTs to build your twitter account into a solid distribution channel for correctly marketing your startup’s updates. More importantly, I like to share everything I know with the startups that we incubate at BetterLabs and realized that I just needed 1 place to point them to. I realized that there were a lot of how-to posts but a lot of them were repetitive and new spins on the same suggestions, so I decided to build a good reference list for myself, our startups as well as for everyone who may be interested. You will see a list of all suggestions from a range of blogs that I have come across that I have aggregated. Please note that I have referenced the blog posts with the via link as the source of the suggestion. I will continue to add new things along the way so check back every once in a while for an update. If you have more suggestions, please post a comment and I will add it if I think its truly a good tip. And of course, you can follow me on twitter @betterlabs and RT this post : -) I hope this is helpful.

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The Crate & Barrel Story

Top Twitter Tips For Startup Founders