.Net Customer Press Writing 
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 6, 2016
I have experienced many first-time entrepreneurs with too much hubris if fund-raising came easily and press was fawning and employees joined in droves and customer adoption has been rapid. In London when founders failed they were ostracized in the press and culturally I believe it became harder to raise capital.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. Selling at smaller retailers will net you fewer customers and higher margins.
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. She focused on her customer. I blog on entrepreneurship & VC precisely because entrepreneurs and other VCs are my customers.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 17, 2017
I want to understand how many units the company is selling, whether this is increasing over time and how well they’re doing at retaining the customers that they do acquire. Do 20% of the customers make 80% of the revenue or do the top 3 customers represent 80% of the revenue. My first priority is to understand “growth drivers.”
InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. Along the way many things came together: being able to find the right people, getting great customers, having lots of luck, being in the right place at the right time. From day one we focused on customers.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 19, 2011
That said, there are times where you need to cast a wider net. I doubt they’d be willing to press harder in questioning and/or be more attuned to negative signals that the reference might be implying but not actually saying. Very customer focused. As an entrepreneur I have one company to sell. And possibly just one time.
InfoChachkie
JULY 14, 2009
A Writer Is Someone Who Writes. A writer is someone who writes, not someone who goes about telling their friends that they are “a writer”. If your character cracks under the heat of a startup, your stakeholders will feel cheated, just like the ceramic customers in ancient Greece. Hint: He was an entrepreneur.
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