Blog Traffic
December 22, 2008
As the end of year approaches, I wanted top thank those who read this blog on a regular basis. Â Traffic has been growing 400% month over month. Â The pace of postings will be light over the next week through the holidays. Â The new year will bring a couple of new projects and lots of interesting profiles and news.
If you know of a start-up that would be an interesting profile or have information of interest to entrepreneurs in Kentucky, Please pass it along.
Kentucky Startups #52
December 15, 2008
At the Open business blog, Marc Dangear uses a filter based on social influence and not traffic to track the top blogs in entrepreneurship/ Social Entrepreneurship / High Tech/ Venture Capital. Â Using thisÂ
methodolgy, the Kentucky Startup Blog was ranked number 52. Â In fact most of the Springstage network blogs come out in the top 150 (texas, colorado, North Carolina, New Hampshire). Â The top blogs were all the usual suspects (kawasaki, techcrunch, etc) Â One noticeable absence was Brad Feld though Ask the VC did make the list. Â After reviewing the list, itseems those that post non-tech/entrepreneurial posts often don’t rank high using this criteria. It was also a creative way to ensure others linked to your blog.
Geeks Night Out
September 8, 2008
Commerce Lexington has put together the InteLex meetup called Geeks night out. Â It is scheduled for September 18th from 5:30-8:00pm at the Victorian Square Atrium & Shops. Â For $10 you get two free drinks and hopefully the opportunity to meet some smart folks in Lexington
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Ideafestival 2008
September 2, 2008
The annual Idea Festival is coming again to Louisville, September 25th-27th. The Idea Festival has a series of speakers and events covering a broad range, technology, art, science etc, basically bringing together a group of the smartest thinkers in a variety of disciplines. Past speakers have included Steve Wozniak and Sir George Martin (of Beatles Fame). The speakers I am looking forward to this year are Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, and guru of high impact rare events and Diandra Leslie-Peleckyon the physics of Nascar. Tickets and agenda are available here.
Social Media Club Meetup
July 21, 2008
The Social media club of Louisville is having a happy hour tomorrow evening at Proof. THe SMC is a group of entrepreneurs, writers, marketers etc looking to share best practices, establish ethics and standards, and promote media literacy.
Summer Reading
July 3, 2008
Since it is the height of vacation season and coming up on a holiday weekend I thought I would share the five books that every entrepreneur or anyone interested in entrepreneurship should read:
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It
The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t
Happy Reading
A little PR
May 19, 2008
Like any new venture, we at kentuckystartups look for opportunities to gain some exposure.� Thanks to those at Business Lexingtonfor�the love.� Promoting startups in Kentucky
Welcome to the Kentucky Startup blog
May 5, 2008
This is the first post for the KY startup blog. What I hope to accomplish is to be the place to go for information about the startup environment and startup companies within the bluegrass state. I plan to highlight news and events relevant to KY startups, profiles of interesting startups from around the state and articles and ideas of interest to those with an entrepreneurial passion. I invite you to check back often or subscribe to my feed and to please comment and share your point of view.
