Yep, the algorithm change (which angers users) means it’s tougher to get the $5,000-only-pay-when-you-hit-the-front-page deal that I’ve heard whispers about.

Yes, $5,000. Insanely too much for a non-followed link unless you actually have a great story, in which case you may have been dugg for free.

Boo-f’in-hoo.

Galen Ward is the co-founder of Estately.com, a never-dugg Seattle area real estate search website

From Hottosplitanatom.com:

 The biggest hurdle that growing startups run into has nothing to do with technology. It has nothing to do with Marketing. It’s not monetization or venture funding. No. What will sink even the best company faster than you can say “employee option package” is the lack of team work. No matter how smart the members of your team are, if they spend most of their time bickering over control of the project, nothing will ever get done.

HubSpot has some interesting lessons about marketing from the Presidential campaign trial.