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Why Isn't Paypal More Successful?
I just bought a replacement part at an online store I've never shopped in before. I was dreading the checkout process since I have not committed my various credit cards to memory. But thankfully this store offered checkout with Paypal. I clicked on it, entered my paypal credentials, and was out of the store in […]
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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves
For the next few months I’ll be posting a series of posts on family, startup culture and careers. These vignettes are about how I’ve lived my life trying to make my dent in the universe and trying …
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Release Late, Release Rarely (2006)
When you look at something you’re working on, no matter what it is, you can’t help but see past the actual thing to the ideas that inspired it, your plans for extending it, the emotions you’ve tied to it. But when others look at it, all they see is a piece of junk.
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You Aren't Average
Do you ever think that SEO is "obvious"? "Common knowledge"? "Pretty easy, really"?
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What’s in a name – Tips for naming your startup
Essays by Thomas Petersen
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Hardest delegating lesson to learn: Trust but verify.
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Who Do You Believe, Randall Stross or Your Own Lying Eyes?
Regarding Randall Stross’s piece in The New York Times claiming the problem isn’t AT&T’s network, but rather the iPhone’s hardware.
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Steve Blank: Selling with Sports Scores
When I was a young marketer I learned how to listen to customers by making a fool of myself. Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field …
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Just do it
Tinkerer, designer, and angel investor. Building software products and backing early-stage startups.
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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition
In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit. Failure to get product/market fit right is very likely the number…
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Strategies to Take on an Established Competitor
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Flight Control (#1 paid app) iPhone Game Sales Numbers
When we launched Flight Control on 6 March 2009, we made a committment to share our sales numbers with the game development community. At th...
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The Internet Is Alive And Well (As An Investment)
James Altucher penned a column in today's WSJ titled The Internet Is Dead (As An Investment). James is a fund manager and well read columnist on investing and he is entitled to his opinion. He puts his money where his mouth is. But so do I and since we continue to invest heavily in the […]
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Fred Wilson on investing in Geocities
Yesterday, TechCrunch reported the news that Yahoo! is planning to shut down Geocities. That is sad news on many levels. Geocities was the web's first community and it was my first "mega deal" when it was sold to Yahoo! in 1999 for $3.5bn (including the value of the options Yahoo! assumed). I learned a lot […]
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Daring Fireball's take on Apple's FCC response
A few choice bits.
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Nathan Myhrvold’s Evil Genius
Last year I wrote that Intellectual Ventures is a kind of reductio ad absurdum of our flawed patent system. It’s a firm that literally does nothing useful, its only business is the acquisition and licensing of patents. Not only does it have no intention of commercializing the technologies it “invents,” its business…
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