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It’s over a year old, but this video of the MyBlogLog founders speaking at TechStars 07 is just fantastic. There’s a huge amount of proven advice packed-in, and as such the video hits over an hour in length. But if you’re doing a startup, and your still open to taking advice from experienced entrepreneurs in your valuable time away from frantic coding, this is one hour of you life that you won’t mind sacrificing (I’m pretty sure they covering everything you need to know - it’s fascinating):

If you’ve been planning a new Web app or business and you haven’t launched yet, you’ll want to check out the latest blog post from Evan Williams, founder of Twitter, Blogger & Odeo. Will it fly? proposes a quick, straightforward approach to analysing your latest idea(s);

A single blog post is unlikely to change a budding founder’s aspirations, but Evan William’s post may make you view your idea from the viewpoint of a successful Web entrepreneur, and that’s got to be worth a few minutes of your time.

Although I don’t use it much due to the fact that I can see it becoming hugely time consuming, I think Evan Willam’s latest business, Twitter, is great product. It’s relatively simple in functionality, proposes some great new opportunities for social interaction (micro-blogging, followers etc), and I’ve been consistently returning to it for inspiration. I’m fascinated with the idea of taking a unique concept straight to the Web with the minimum of cash injection and proving it’s usefulness (if not profitability) right from the offset. Twitter is a great example of this approach (despite the necessary SMS integration it required).