10 reasons not to become an entrepreneur

As I'm speaking today at the Institute for Entrepreneurship at the Economic University of Vienna, I thought it would be good to give a few reasons not to become an entrepreneur. :)

Geeky

Funny SVN commit messages from our repositories:

• "Witu tututututuuuuuuuuu"
• "Theme - MY BEST IE6 HACK EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET'S CELEBRATE!!!!! YAHOOOOOOOOOO BEEEEEEER AND GIRLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ YAHOOOOOOOOO"
• "It's not my house"
• "Kendarm - Throbber, throb!
• "done"
  

And of course the favourite:

• "Fix for the P1 on live."
  

Beta Testers Wanted

We are developing a set of SEO tools and are looking for a few beta testers.

Right now, all it does is

• track your domain's occurence in Google SERPs for definable keywords
• track backlinks
• track indexed pags

It is quite simplistic and does not compete with advanced stuff like SeoMoz's backlink database, but it could be useful for those who are not ready for the big tools yet.

The tools were born our of our own need to track many websites, many keywords, many local Googles.

If you are interested in participating, let me know.

TechCrunch on new TLDs

Hilarious quote on the introduction of .eco by Michael Arrington:

ICANN, the quasi-governmental, quasi-mafia organization that oversees this mess gets their cut as well. The more domain names that get registered, the more money ICANN makes, which lets them hire more staff to stick their noses into more things. Meanwhile, they’re making a mess of the Internet.

Kippenberger

My favourite piece of art of 2008 is the frog.

http://nymag.com/arts/art/reviews/54940/?imw=Y&f=most-emailed-24h5

I love how there is not even a mention of it.