September 13, 2008 – 3:47 pm
Seth Godin’s blog doesn’t seem to allow comments, so here we are.
I really like the theme of his most recent post, “Breakage“: you have to be careful with your customers. You might go years upping prices bit by bit, then all of a sudden lose half your customers before you know it. Massive swings like [...]
August 16, 2008 – 12:52 am
Innovation and entrepreneurship are two of my favorite foods for thought, so naturally their intersection grabs my attention. Pushing entrepreneurship forward–whether by getting more people excited enough to try it, lowering the barriers to reasonable success, bringing more investor money to bear on funding great people with good ideas, or attacking the challenge from any [...]
August 15, 2008 – 2:31 pm
People justifiably have strong opinions on the “everything’s free” model that google, facebook, linkedin (mostly), and most of the biggest up-and-comers in the new web espouse. The conversation reached mass proportions a while ago when it made the cover of Wired, but I found a couple more interesting perspectives this week, and they tie in [...]
If you have been following my friendfeed, you may have noticed I decided sharing my delicious links there was overkill, so I stopped. Instead, I’m going to try summing up a few interesting blog posts I’ve read and websites I’ve seen this past week. I may stick to this, I may do it more often, [...]
Whenever Umair Haque, whom I’ve blogged about here before, saves up some thoughts and posts them and titles them a manifesto, people take notice these. There’s Fred Wilson’s post from a couple days ago promising to really digest the suggestions; there’s Michael Lewkowitz, whom I didn’t know until today, and who sounds like a sharp [...]
Geoffrey Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm, one of the most famous startup marketing books ever, spoke at Texchange Austin (AustinStartup blogged about it pre-event here) last night about selling to your first business customers as a startup with a new technology product.
His talk was great in my opinion, and was really insightful for me [...]
I started following blog.pmarca.com a few months back after it kept getting referenced by venturehacks. I knew of Marc Andreessen–he designed mosaic, the first mass web browser, which sort of turned into netscape when he cofounded that company in his early 20s. Since then, he sold netscape to aol, started opsware in 99 [...]
Being good as a company is something I think about a lot. And since I just read these two interesting perspectives, I thought it was time to pull thoughts together.
Disclaimer: I want to make the point that I don’t agree with every single argument the authors make. I think it’s understood in the blogging [...]
There’s an incredibly educational discussion in the comments of a blog post a couple of weeks ago over at Fred Wilson’s avc. I’m a little late to the party, I know, but that’s because it took some thinking and reading on it for the idea to sink in and resonate with me, which is [...]
Dave McClure is behind this. He knows what he’s talking about, it’s clear from how much he’s able to say with such a short and digestible presentation. Sure it’s simplifies a few things and takes some shortcuts, but you have to when you’re trying to organize something as big and fuzzy as the [...]
