startup hustle

GSW sent 17 strategist, designers, developers and project managers to South by Southwest (SxSW) 2011. For many of use it was our first time at SxSW, (including mine) and we had a blast. The trip was inspirational to be completely honest as we worked out ways to bring the newest technologies to our healthcare clients. We documented our trip on WhatsYourDigitalIQ.com, GSW’s innovation lab site.

Here is a list of the blogs that were published during our trip:

• SXSW daily summary report for Saturday
• SXSW daily summary report for Sunday
• SXSW daily summary report for Monday
• SXSW daily summary report for Tuesday
• SXSW daily summary report for Wednesday

• Sausagefest: Getting more women into media and tech
• Learning the playground rules
• The currency of courtesy

Startup Hustle has been added to the Alltop Startup section. There are a ton of great resources in the Alltop Startup area including Hacker News (ycombinator), techCrunch, Startup Weekend and Valleywag (ha). I have added a link to Alltop on the sidebar so you will be able to check out all the startup blogs after you read Startup Hustle .

One of our writers (Tyler Ransburgh) was fortunate enough to be quoted in the LA Times for an article about Yahoo. He was asked his opinion on how well the Panama PPC engine works. What he didn’t know, the article was really about Yahoo not meeting their 1^st quarter numbers. Thereafter the stock slipped 11%. A few of the people he works with that own Yahoo stock wanted to shot him for not giving them the heads up….nice.

Startup Hustle was started to help startups and small businesses with the ever changing marketing landscape on the internet. The problem is trends can change so quickly that many businesses are still stuck a few months or even years in the past on what use to work and are not sure why traffic or conversions continue to fall. We are going to look at internal and external areas to focus on with the occasional (or continual) smartass remarks.