It might not be completely newsworthy but the fact that Fleck is now podcastworthy made it blogworthy for me. Yes, Fleck was mentioned in the VentureWeek Podcast. I don’t know how many people think that podcast is iPodworthy but we were still happy and surprised that we made that podcast. You can listen to it here directly of visit their site:

Website VentureWeek:
http://www.ventureweek.com/

Podcast:
http://www.ventureweek.com/VentureWeek_7.mp3

I hope you will find it commentworthy and tellityourfriendsworthy.

As you can imagine there are more people in the world who knew about the word ‘Fleck‘ before we started using it. And quite a few decided it would be a good name for their business. Some people even have ‘Fleck‘ as their last name!

Designing a logo is hard. I love it when it is over but the process is painfull and takes a long time. Every time I have to design a logo I feel useless, unskilled and without talent. Then the logo is finished and I think ‘Wow, that was simple’ and kind of forget how I felt during designing.

Today I decided to do a search for Fleck logos on the web to see what other people came up with. I found quite a few Fleck logos. Here they are in no particular order:

I’m still getting great feedback from readers all over the world on my blog titled ‘10 tips for a perfect pitch‘. I was just reading my RSS feeds and noticed David Cowan (of Bessemer Venture Partners) updated two of his blogs. I scrolled to the end of those blogposts to see what information he added. Well, it looks like he agrees with me. Getting mentioned by David Cowan is not as good as getting funded by David Cowan but it sure made my day week month!

Go check em out:

http://whohastimeforthis.blogspot.com/2006/01/practicing-art-of-pitchcraft.html
http://whohastimeforthis.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-not-write-business-plan.html

A few people emailed with with the same message that the banner I posted yesterday was a bit, well, normal…

I’m not offended, I like feedback. I took some time today to design another Fleck Badge so here it is. This is the code for the banner.

<!– Start Fleck.com Badge of honour –>
<a href=”http://www.fleck.com/” target=”_new”><img src=”http://www.fleck.com/images/fleckbutton.gif” alt=”Fleck.com” border=”0″ height=”137″ width=”98″ /></a>
<!– End Fleck.com Badge of honour –>

Feel free to change the code as you please but do let me know (by email) when you add it to your page!

So today is Patrick’s birthday. I bought him an Airport Express to go with his iPod and iBook and a laserpointer and flashlight that connects to his iPod. If you read this and have a spare minute do me a favor and send him a message on patrick@fleck.com to congratulate him. I’m sure he would love the attention. He didn’t take a day off (and why would he, we have work to do!) so a few extra messages would make his day! It’s his 27th birthday…

Finding a good name for our start-up was hard. But we figured Fleck would be good and descriptive name for our technology and we hoped a short domainname which was registered first long ago would do good in Google. Imagine our surprise when we couldn’t find Fleck.com in Google, at all…

No, the whole site wasn’t available in Google no matter how hard we searched. We clicked through all 6.500.000 results looking for it and it just wasn’t there. The whole domain disappeared into the GoogleIgnoreDataBase. This was a huge disappointment!
But then we started this blog and some blogs started linking to us and something changed. Today I decided to give it another try and lo and behold, we are suddenly there, and on the second page! We are now search result numer 18 for ‘Fleck’.

I hope we can even improve on this by getting a few more links to our page. So if you have a blog or homepage I am going to bribe you with this scheme: If you want to make sure you are the very first person to get your hands on our beta product you can now earn that right. Display the FleckBadge on your blog and send me the URL where I can find it and you will get a premium placement in our BetaUserDataBase.

Here is the code you need to correctly display the Badge:

<!– Start Fleck.com Badge of honour –>
<a href=”http://www.fleck.com/” target=”_new”><img src=”http://www.fleck.com/images/fleckbadge.gif” alt=”Fleck.com” border=”0″ height=”30″ width=”88″ /></a>
<!– End Fleck.com Badge of honour –>

I hope you like it! Any other ideas for getting a good rank in Google are welcome…

UPDATE: we are now search result number 10 which means we are on the first page! Only 9 spots to go…

UPDATE 2: we are now search result number 8! It’s getting better every day…