would you mind sharing one valuable insight that came from the "master" class, that you will be applying to your current/next project, please.

Sounds like your mind is already made up. I'm not here to convince you or anyone else to go. Just sharing that I had a more positive take on the day.

My question was sincere. Please share.

Thank you for this comment, it connected with some of my feelings that have precolated up since my initial question.

I agree, I need to establish a vision, and launch it fast.

Thanks for those book recommondations. Thats always been my problem: marketing

ok, but would you agree that the quality of the Digg clones has generally been poor? I migrated from Digg to Reddit a couple of years ago. Then from Reddit to hackerNews. Reddit appears to be succumbing to the same fate as Digg, (too many lol-cats, and cheap comments).

This site would keep the focus on tech news and try to keep the community relatively small.

What kind of tech news? XBox games? OSS? VC funding announcements?

Right now, what would the top 5 headlines be on your ideal news site?

I disagree with linkfrek that the ship has sailed. Online communities will always exist and evolve. Digg, Reddit, and HN won't be the last tech communities ever built.

Oops, I meant that I disagree with marcamillion about the ship sailing thing...

quick byte: -(37signals before DH) During a job interview in which JF wasnt very serious about landing the job, he randomly met an acquaintance. This person agreed to work for 37signals as a designer. This person brought a former client with him to 37signals. This client spent atleast 200,000 in services from 37signals.

Who knows how 37signals would have turned out without that 200k during its early years. This was 37signals big break, not saying it "made" 37signals, just saying that 200k obviously helps and luck was a factor. Source: a mixergy interview with JF.

how did Harj's time at liveCurrent go? Im very interested as I remember all the press that Harj/Auctomatic recieved when it was purchased. What was accomplished at liveCurrent?

it was probably a good example in how not to manage an acquisition. within a week of joining our team was split up, our product shut down and a lot of the resources we'd been promised weren't available. from other people I've spoken to who have been acquired, this isn't an atypical scenario.

still, I ended up working on cricket.com and enjoyed it, took it from a site of spam links to a community for cricket fans with 1m monthly uniques and $30k revenue a month. I left after just over a year there.

Why do you think they bought you guys then? I'm assuming the product has been shut down, and the team has since moved on - what did they get out of the acquisition?

Wouldn't be surprised if cricinfo made a big offer for that domain at some point. Where do you pull the scorecard data from?

That would be silly of cricinfo IMO. They have a well established decade old brand(in fact, one of the first websites on the Internet, I believe).

we pulled it from a data feed provided by cricket archive, presumably they're still doing that now.