Best of DMC / Master of 500 Hats: "Greatest Hats"

Here is a collection of my favorite blog posts over the past few years:

Big Think
Web 3.0 = Hailstorm 2.0 & How MSFT-YHOO could beat GOOG
Memo to GOOG/YHOO/MSFT/AOL: How to turn 500M email logins into Facebook Platform & a Crapload of Revenue
Channeling Crowds: social networking + prediction markets = new startups (Release 2.0, O'Reilly Media, 04/07)

Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital
How to Pitch a VC (aka Startup Viagra: How to Give a VC a Hard-On)
Fear is the Mind Killer of the Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
Great Entrepreneurs are PASSIONATE (about Customers & Products, not Great Entrepreneurship)
VCs & Tech Lawyers: INNOVATE, AUTOMATE, SIMPLIFY.
1000 Startup Flowers in Continuous Bloom = The Destruction of Venture Capital
Top 5 reasons PR doesn't work (for Geeks)

Startup Metrics
Startup Metrics for Pirates (FOWA/Miami, Feb 2009)
Numbers not Napkins: Simple Startup Metrics (Palo Alto Jan 2009)
Silicon Valley 2.0: The Startup Metrics Revolution (Tokyo Dec 2008)
Startup Metrics for Pirates: AARRR! (Startonomics SF 2008)
Startup Metrics: The 1-Page Business Model
Startup Metrics: Sample User Conversion Dashboard
Startup Metrics: Example Marketing Channels
Startonomics.com (SF 2008)
User Engagement: Depth, not a Breadth, metric

Facebook-aholic
Facebook isn't AOL; it's Visual Basic
The Zen of Poke: A Facebook Story
Facebook's #1 Problem isn't Privacy, It's Monetization
Facebook Big Pimpin': Using Social Networks & Platforms to Drive Distribution
Facebook Newsfeed Optimization is the New SEO & Renaissance 2.0 Has Arrived
7 Steps to Your Facebook Strategy (TechCrunch)
Creating Engaging & Viral Facebook Apps (Stanford / BayCHI video, Dec 07)
Facebook Ads Suck? Nope, CPM Sucks.
Fanboy to Facebook: I Don't Know How to Quit You

Search & Social Networks, Platforms & Apps
Successful Developer Platforms Have 3 Things: Features, Users, Money.
The Other World-Dominating Platform: Google Analytics
Other People's Platforms: You Down Wit OPP? Yeah, U Know Me (O'reilly Radar)
Designing for the "3rd & 4th browsers" (Search & Social Media)
Google Open Social vs. Facebook Platform (aka: Open Standards are for Losers... er, Underdogs)
Business Models for Social Networks: Monetizing Social Capital & The Long Tail of Cool

Blogging & Web Publishing
Resumes are for Sh*t. The 4 Things You Really Need (LinkedIn, a Blog, Keywords, Social Media)
Publishing 2.0: it's not what you think.
Publishing 2.0, Part Deux!

Securitization, Microfinance, & Social Entrepreneurship
Securitizing Happiness: Making Trillion-Dollar Markets for Individuals, Small Business, & Natural Resources
MicroEquity = MicroVC? (Using Real Estate as a Synthetic Liquidity Hack for Small Business Equity)
Securitization Examples for Social Entrepreneurship
Unitus: Helping Small Entrepreneurs Grow Tall (Microfinance)
Google.org: Accelerating Growth of SMEs / Small Business Finance
Beth Kanter: Give it up, Bitches... NOW.

Personal & Philosophical Reflections
Inspiration for Old Men comes in a Small Package
Forty & Fortunate
Changes, Oh
Outing Passive vs Active Heroism
Blog Tag + 5 things u didn't know about Dave
Requiem for an Entrepreneur (Jad Duwaik, 1970-2006)
My Last Day at PayPal

Misc Geekery
Middle America vs Silicon Valley, OpenID, & Single Sign-on
Top 10 Reasons why Web 2.0 is like Disco (Simply Hired blog)
StarF*#ked. (or, how not to handle forgotten password recovery flow)
Hard Out Here for a [Web 2.0] PIMP

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Startup Metrics for Pirates (FOWA/Miami, Feb 2009)

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How to Pitch a VC (aka Startup Viagra: How to Give a VC a Hard-On)

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Creating Successful Developer Programs

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