starting up

startups links

Guy Kawasaki MCs an informative and entertaining panel discussion (video) on community focused startups involving the founders of hi5.com, slide.com, suicidegirls.com, hotornot.com, fark.com and plentyofish.com.
Loads of great stories, from their experiences, on building out an idea starting with bugger all.

…at the same time I was debating whether or not to do an online curry recipe database, cause I don’t know if you guys know but there are no really good curry databases on the internet…so its an open niche I’m telling you… - Drew Curtis of fark.com

Startupping is a new resource aimed at helping online entrepreneurs. As well as their own blog they have aggregated their best blog picks on the subjects of Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors.

..and in NZ I see that Trade and Enterprise have a number of events which may be useful for local startups with an eye on exporting or just straight up networking.