TechEmpower
JULY 31, 2023
When talking to startup founders or other innovators, we always ask questions to better understand their business as a core. Start by building just enough of your product to get early CAC and CLV signals (they won’t be perfect). What does the business do? How does it meet customers’ needs? Don’t worry about scaling just yet.
SoCal CTO
JANUARY 5, 2011
Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?
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SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 8, 2009
A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs. Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure. We need to make sure we have these numbers. Great stuff.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. But let’s be honest – they’re mostly the same old shit as Web 1.0, The Present Era.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Our interview this morning is with David Sacks, CEO of Geni.com, an online family tree and social networking site, as well as Yammer, the instant messaging startup spun out of Geni.com at TechCrunch50. We sat down with David to catch up on what Geni and Yammer are doing, plus got his insights into entrepreneurship and the Paypal mystique.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 9, 2011
I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs. Yesterday was a Monday. And not a pleasant one.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 19, 2011
The money slide is the graphic below. Things got so bad on one project that we ended up doing split shifts with teams of people programming from 8pm-6am and the next team arriving at 8am. Then the unintended consequences started cropping up. The chart shows three scarce resources and their improvements over time.
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