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What reddit taught me about startups: "because it's your damn job"
WARNING: I've learned everything I know from 16 months at a startup and HBO miniseries. Trust nothing. Why do I look back so fondly on st...
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How to create a startup in 10.5 hours
I just launched FEEDJIT . It took me about 10.5 hours (4pm until 2:30am) from the first time my hand touched the keyboard until I fixed the last bug and went live. I got a question on the Seattle Tech Startup list about how I spent my 10.5 hours. So here’s a brief summary:
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Startup founder evolution (or, the biz guy *is* valuable, just not at first)
In the past two months I’ve been on two different panels with other entrepreneurs. The first was at WTIA in Bellevue, WA (“ Cashing in on Web Services “)– the other panelists were very clearly what I’d call “business entrepreneurs”. All of them had relatively successful funded startups, but not a one of them had…
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Are You An Entrepreneur or a Wantrepreneur?
Compare the best sports betting sites Singapore bettors use on odds, bonuses, banking and payout speed, with the wagering terms and limitations explained.
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Rules for startups
My buddy Jason had a GREAT post about rules for startups. Read it, love it learn it.
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Ask 37signals: How did you come up with pricing for your products?
Mattijs asks: I am developing an internet product and I am rapidly approaching the point at which I will need to set a pricing scheme for this product. Problem: I have no idea what to shoot for! I have done some research which shows a wide range of similar products with varying pricing schemes. …
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The Value of the Y Combinator Experience
I'm often asked about my Y Combinator experience so I thought I would take the time to blog about it.
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What is the minimum viable product?
Eric Ries and I recently sat down to talk about minimum viable products: the product with just the necessary features to get money and feedback from early adopters. The minimum viable product (MVP)…
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Trust customers over VCs
Venture capitalists are glorified gamblers in the Ace-from-Casino sense of the word. They try their best to collect intel on the players, but ultimately still just place bets. Bets that usually fail more often than they succeed. It’s the 1-in-10 blowout payoff that makes sure the piano keeps …
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YC's summer update
We’re less than 2 weeks away from Demo Day and I feel like this funding cycle has whizzed by faster than any other. We have 22 startups this summer, bringing the total number we’ve funded to...
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VentureHacks: How to Pick a Co-founder
Update: Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. It’s more important than your product, market, and investors. The ideal founding …
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Why not to do a startup
Marc Andreessen is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to
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Bootstrappers Beware
A lot of people are damn religious about bootrapping businesses. Especially nowadays when it’s so easy to start a software business– you just need a few hackers, Ruby on Rails, a cheap virtual server and you’re ready to roll, right?
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How My Startup Failed
Share a story that could only come from you. A spiritual experience, unexplained mystery, or an unlikely series of coincidences.