“One interesting thing about starting a company today versus a few years ago: Lots of cool web apps are now available that you can more or less run you company on. Among the apps we’re currently using, or trying out, at Odeo are…”

“The Gillette Company came to market in 2004 with a new razor, the M3 Power… the product blew away the competition just as effectively. Weeks after its May 2004 introduction, the M3 Power was the top-selling razor in the United States, and helped Gillette, one of the consumer products industry’s consistently great innovators, to a whopping 26 percent rise in second-quarter profits. Gillette told investors in late July that sales of razor blades, oral care products, and batteries were up, too. It seemed like good times were rolling. But the stock market responded by shaving Gillette’s stock price by more than 5 percent. Why?”