Thu 12 Apr 2007
Community Building and An Unsolicited Webhosting Endorsement
Posted by jtmcarthur under Communities, Networking, Startups
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I can not stress enough the importance for startups of having a good web-hosting service and good web presence. One mistake that I made in launching Walden Technology Partners, Inc., was in not first hiring a website designer (in our case, my niece), finding a good webhosting provider (in our case, HostMySite) and getting the site up and running from day one, when I changed my LinkedIn profile.
Evolving a blog from one that is a single orator addressing an audience of none into an interactive and supportive community of like-minded entrepreneurs requires some real work. And I am getting a great deal of advice on the topic. Here’s a sampling from my expert-in-residence, my brother, Ken. I received the following advice from him today: