Web 2.0 Startup Advice from Squidoo

Seth Godin, prolific business writer, author of Purple Cow, and founder of Squidoo blogged today a series of tips that will be useful for HitTail <-- Squidoo lens, or anyone starting a Web 2.0 startup. It's interesting advice, especially the one about Business Development. I guess the role that partnerships may play varies depending on the nature of the product. I see many opportunities for HitTail licensing agreements, and for it to be built into other products--especially in products like MySpace and Squidoo, where the developers shut their users out of the third-party analytics game by choosing directory-based homepages (squidoo.com/hittail) , instead of the more friendly subdomain-based homepages (hittail.squidoo.com). But with a partnership, HitTail could offer its services to Squidoo, MySpace and others, making licensing and partnerships an important area for us to investigate.