startups
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Table of Contents
- November 2009
- Information security – are we experiencing a Pax Romana?
- Presenting Founder Collective
- Pitch yourself, not your idea
- The importance of institutional redundancy
- Most popular posts
- December 2009
- Some thoughts on SEO
- New Hunch interface
- Does a VC’s brand matter?
- Welcoming Jimmy Wales to Hunch
- Why did Skype succeed and Joost fail?
- 20×200: democratizing art
- Search and the social graph
- Google’s feature creep
- Anatomy of a bad search result
- Google should open source what actually matters: their search ranking algorithm
- Why the web economy will continue growing rapidly
- Are people more willing to pay for digital goods on mobile devices?
- What’s the right amount of seed money to raise?
- What’s strategic for Google?
- January 2010
- The next big thing will start out looking like a toy
- Speculation on Apple’s purchase of Quattro Wireless
- Shutting down
- Security through diversity
- Collective knowledge systems
- Will people pay for the New York Times online?
- Techies and normals
- How to disrupt Wall Street
- Incumbents
- Should Apple be more open?
- Being friendly has become a competitive advantage in VC
- Institutional failure
- Why you should put the new Hunch badge on your website
- February 2010
- The NYC tech scene is exploding
- Howard Lindzon interview
- Backing out of a term sheet
- Selling to enterprises
- Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies
- Some thoughts on the “geo stack”
- Don’t be creative about the wrong things
- A massive misallocation of online advertising dollars
- It’s not East Coast vs West Coast, it’s about making more places like the Valley
- March 2010
- News is a lousy business for Google too
- The importance of investor signaling in venture pricing
- Developing new startup ideas
- Stickiness is bad for business
- Capitalism just like Adam Smith pictured it
- April 2010
- Size markets using narratives, not numbers
- Underhyping your startup
- Twitter and third-party Twitter developers
- The tradeoff between open and closed
- May 2010
- Old VC firms: get ready to be disrupted
- Facebook, Zynga, and buyer-supplier hold up
- Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads
- While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core
- June 2010
- Money managers should pay the same tax rates as everyone else
- There are three New York Cities
- Steve Jobs single-handedly restructured the mobile industry
- Inside versus outside financings: the nightclub effect
- Designing products for single and multiplayer modes
- Pivoting
- Builders and extractors
- Competition is overrated
- July 2010
- It’s not that seed investors are smarter – it’s that entrepreneurs are
- Graphs
- August 2010
- The bowling pin strategy
- Good bizdev cannibalizes itself
- Converts versus equity deals
- September 2010
- Howard Lindzon’s “Web is Dead” series
- Web services should be both federated and extensible
- If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough
- The segmentation of the venture industry
- October 2010
- The “ladies’ night” strategy
- Online privacy: what’s at stake
- You need to use social services to understand them
- Instrumenting the offline world
- November 2010
- Timing your startup
- The interoperability of social networks
- December 2010
- The “thin edge of the wedge” strategy
- January 2011
- Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet dramatically transformed, it will.
- February 2011
- Selling pickaxes during a gold rush
- The importance of predictability for platform developers
- March 2011
- Graphs presentation
- SEO is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups
- Founder Stories
- A few points about the “tech bubble” debate
- April 2011
- App store shenanigans
- A weird thing that happened and a note to the future
- Some thoughts on incumbents
- Google’s social strategy
- Showing up
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