The Loudcrowd private alpha, and a startup meetup

In case you haven't already read on the internet, some intrepid bloggers have been having fun in our private alpha and decided to write a bit about it. There's more over at the Conduit blog, including the coverage in this weekend's Boston Globe.

And I'll be speaking at the YCombinator Cambridge/Boston Startup Meetup on Monday night along with some area founders and likely a bunch of YCombinator companies. Paul Graham will be answering questions, Kevin Merritt will be telling his story, and they asked me to say something. Since so many people give dire post mortems of how they screwed up their startups, I thought I'd talk about how you know if your startup is actually working.

See you there, or at Loudcrowd.