What is FuzzyBlog.com
25-year old startup entrepreneur Scott Hildebrand, CEO of Tubes, published a post here at Sacramento Executive on February 6. Gillian and I have published about 150 posts since our inception two months ago. We use software from www.sitemeter.com to provide us with valuable information about our readers such as what pages they read, how long they stay on our site, and how they find our site.
Yesterday afternoon I launched the software to review the traffic details for the day. Much to my amazement, over half of yesterday’s visitors entered Scott’s post on www.sacramentoexecutive.com via www.fuzzyblog.com.
I was taken by curiosity and began to investigate why we were getting so much traffic from FuzzyBlog. I had never heard of FuzzyBlog. Surprisingly, FuzzyBlog’s creator Scott Johnson had a link on his blog to Scott’s posting on our site. I was puzzled. Why would a Scott Johnson from FuzzyBlog be linking to a post on our site?
Well, my investigation revealed that Scott Johnson is the founder of Feedster, a very successful start-up company in the RSS space (syndication software). In fact, Feedster is the pioneer of RSS. It turns out that the two Scotts are friends and Scott H. had told Scott J. about the posting on our site. Apparently Scott H. had been in relative stealth mode about his company Tubes. Gillian and I suggested Scott should write a post about Tubes on our site because we were very impressed with the concept of a social network centered around free music from the independents. So Scott’s posting was a bit of a coming out party and his friends were anxious to see what he had to say.
I poked around on FuzzyBlog.com and quickly found the site to have tons of great podcasts on being an entrepreneur. This site is a must read for start-up entrepreneurs. Scott J. provides a tremendous amount of information on his lessons learned as a founder of Feedster. He has 42 podcasts and the list is growing. Podcast 42 is titled “Startup Husband, Startup Dad”. I think you will enjoy it.
I now subscribe to FuzzyBlog through an RSS feed to MyYahoo webpage. Scott Johnson is in stealth mode on a new company called Ookles. In sixteen days (Feb 28) Ookles will be introduced. I suspect Ookles will be a software solution that will capture the attention of the blogosphere in a big way.
Oh, by the way, Scott’s post is the number one entry page to SacramentoExecutive.com (even more than our homepage). Scott you taught us a valuable lesson on blogging. Well done!
Pierre Cutler
The Sacramento Executive
Comments
Wow. You just made my day. Thank you so much. *big smile*
Posted by: Anonymous | February 12, 2006 7:06 PM
Pierre:
Do your homework before you start posting praises about Scott Johnson. There is a reason why he is an EX founder, and why his code was completely rewritten.
Posted by: ginny | February 12, 2006 7:44 PM
Ginny,
I appreciate your point of view, however, I feel compelled to share my experiences regarding founders in a more generic way, rather than attack an idividual by name in a veiled manner here on our blog.
My wife and I have been actively involved in a number of high tech start-ups and almost without exception, we have found that the founder usually does not stay in control as the CEO through the growth and maturation process of a company. Typically, entrepreneurs have traits that become critical character flaws, forcing the shareholders to bring in new management to help the company grow and prosper. Successful entrepreneurs come up with great ideas, raise the capital to implement the ideas, and transition the company to new leadership. Then they move on to try it again and again.
I think this model is a wonderful model. Hey, I really stink at progamming, but I am good at building strategic plans. So just maybe Scott J. is good at launching a company and maybe not so good at running a company over a long period of time. That's OK. We need the Scott Johnsons of the world for the contributions that they do make.
Pierre Cutler
The Sacramento Executive
Posted by: Pierre Cutler | February 15, 2006 9:35 AM