What Other Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Dogster
Pets.com may have been one of the most wasteful and frivolous of dot com companies, but Dogster is one of the most disciplined of the Web 2.0 generation. It's interesting since Pets.com had a clearer business model, and satisfied a more obvious need. Just goes to show execution wins, in a downturn or no. While a lot of Dogster's smart moves were made in the company's early days, there are plenty of tips in my TechTicker interview with Dogster CEO Ted Rheingold for cash-strapped entrepreneurs worried about 2009.
Clip one:
Clip two (featuring moxie!):
Comments
You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.
The comments to this entry are closed.
New Book
An unforgettable portrait of the emerging world's entrepreneurial dynamos Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky is the story about that top 1% of people who do more to change their worlds through greed and ambition than politicians, NGOs and nonprofits ever can. This new breed of self-starter is taking local turmoil and turning it into opportunities, making millions, creating thousands of jobs and changing the face of modern entrepreneurship at the same time. To tell this story, Lacy spent forty weeks traveling through Asia, South America and Africa hunting down the most impressive up-and-comers the developed world has never heard of....yet.
Buy it from these sellers
Sarah Lacy is an award-winning reporter who has covered high-growth entrepreneurship for fifteen years. Based in Silicon Valley where she's a senior editor at TechCrunch, Lacy travels the world looking for great entrepreneurs.
Updates
Sarah's Latest on TechCrunch
On the Blog
- Africa
- Argentina
- Blogkeeping
- Books
- Brazil
- Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky
- China
- Food and Drink
- India
- Indonesia
- International Travel Tips
- Israel
- Media
- Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good
- Silicon Valley
- Singapore
- TechCrunch
- the always controversial sarah lacy
- Travel
- venture capital
you do realize pets.com and dogster.com really have nothing in common right?
Posted by: Allen | November 28, 2008 at 10:51 AM
allen:
yes other than both companies using the web to go after the same $47b pet enthusiast industry, nothing at all. also, that was kinda my point in drawing distinctions in business model, etc.
s
Posted by: sarah lacy | November 28, 2008 at 11:11 AM
Hmm. I didn't realize that email newsletters were still effective. neat.
Posted by: Glenn Gutierrez | November 29, 2008 at 11:58 AM