August 2009
17 posts
Competition in a new market
Mark Suster, one of my new favorite bloggers had the below 8 points in his post Startups are all Naked in the Mirror. If you have time I suggest you read the whole article and if you are not already follow his blog, Both Sides of the Table, do that too.
1. Be careful about believe everybody else’s good press and drawing any judgment on your own internal performance. Judge yourself against your...
“Based on the premise that start-ups tend to fail through lack of customers...”
– Nigel Eccles via TC
Skype is the killer, not Google Voice
I continue to see a ton of press and activity around Google Voice. If you want my full thoughts on Google Voice, click here.
But it seems that everyone is forgetting about Skype, except for the market. Over the past year Skype has continued to become more valuable for my day to day communication, in fact it is probably one of the most important business tools that I have.
Ebay, the owner of...
Twitter to the Rescue
Erin, my wife, called me yesterday morning a few minutes after she left for work and told me that she could not even get out of our neighborhood onto the main road. She asked me to look and see what was going on.
On Google I saw this:
Google accurately showed a back up on PCH but did nto tell me anything else about it, how long it would last, etc.
So I went to twitter, typed in PCH and got...
“He continued to invest in financial markets, sometimes borrowing money to...”
– Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Sobering Wall, By DAVID LEONHARDT in NYT
The whole article is worth a read. This quote is about how John McAfee, founder of McAfee antivirus, went from a liquid net worth of over $100 million to lees then $4 million. The most interesting part (which I believe is...
Know your Contracts
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A CEO/Founder/Entrepreneur should know and memorize key contracts. I HATE reading contracts but force myself to understand the important ones.
A few weeks ago was one of those times where contract knowledge came in handy (for clarity this had nothing to do with PhoneTag/SimulScribe).
I was in a meeting and a “situation” came up that would not have been great for...
WatchSometimes customer can be a little too dedicated to the brand…
“1. pre money valuation should value the company as it exists today. if investors...”
– a comment from my friend Mark Pincus on doing business with VCs. there is some really good advice in here.
The Ideal First Round Term Sheet
(via fred-wilson)
