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Lessons Learned: Three freemium strategies

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, January 27, 2009 Three freemium strategies Im excited to see so much attention being paid to freemium businesses lately. These are companies that generate revenue by offering a free product with an upsell or premium version. Their economics blends elements of the free, advertising-supported, "eyeballs" business with more traditional e-commerce and subscription businesses.

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Bandwidth Throttling? Find out with Measurement Lab

Eric Friedman

Google today announced a new product , called Measurement Lab , to help you determine if your ISP is throttling bandwidth and perhaps interfering with your downloads. The product is described as follows: Measurement Lab (M-Lab) is an open, distributed server platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools. The goal of M-Lab is to advance network research and empower the public with useful information about their broadband connections.

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Wanted: Simple Skype

Andrew Payne

I love video chat, but I’m currently stuck with my dad where we can see his video but he can’t see ours (using Skype). We know it works on our end. My dad can’t figure out why it doesn’t work any more, and (debugging remotely) I can’t figure it out either. I loved Skype when it first came out: it was simple, punched through firewalls reliably, and had great audio quality.

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What is the World's Largest Fraud?

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Randy Komisar on Failure Serial Inventor Woody Norris Talks Innovation at TED → What is the World’s Largest Fraud? Posted on January 28, 2009 by fnazeeri Hint: it’s not Bernie Madoff. I saw a press release today from ClickForensics proclaiming their most recent statistic that 17.1% of all pay-per-click advertising is click fraud.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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hiring as a core competency

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My wishlist for the future of the Blackberry

Eric Friedman

I am thinking about upgrading my Blackberry in a few weeks and have been bouncing around some ideas for what I wantneed in a mobile phone device. image from a great review of the Blackberry 8900. I recently mentioned that I wanted my phone to be a wallet, keys, and a universal ID system. While I think this is years away, this like this are certainly possible right now – just not in the United States.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Randy Komisar on Failure

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@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← How to Fail Successfully What is the World’s Largest Fraud? → Randy Komisar on Failure Posted on January 27, 2009 by fnazeeri Failure seems to be the topic of today. Came across this gem of an interview with KPCB partner Randy Komisar.

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Sarajevo, Lehman Brothers, and the Panic of 2008

Pascal's View

The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at. Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, is commonly cited as the “proximate trigger” which. ushered in World War I.   The. resolution of this first Great War led not only to. 13.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">the collapse and fragmentation of the. 13.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#122EB3;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none">Austro-Hungarian. 13.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"> Empire, the. 13.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:H

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Always Logged In

Eric Friedman

As I have been talking about recently the best social networks are the ones that arise to challenges when you need them to and are nowhere to be found when you do not need them as is the emerging case with Gmail as a social network. I have been thinking about this further with the recent addition of YouTube videos being available within Gmail as a quicker way to see videos shared from friends.

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hiring as a core competency | Seth Levine

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Serial Inventor Woody Norris Talks Innovation at TED

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@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← What is the World’s Largest Fraud? Atlas Ventures Crash And Burns → Serial Inventor Woody Norris Talks Innovation at TED Posted on January 29, 2009 by fnazeeri I hadn’t heard of this guy before seeing this talk, but he seems quite the entrepreneur.

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Sway and Irrational VCs

Seeing Both Sides

I recently read Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, Outliers, with great interest and delight. Gladwell is a fantastic author: always thought-provoking on human behavior and a quick, entertaining read. But I confess this book did not resonate with me or strike me as relevant for the VC-entrepreneur dance in the same way his previous book, Blink, did (see: VCs Blink ).

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Data Longevity

Eric Friedman

I have been thinking about the concept of data longevity and data rot lately after my sister asked me a very poignant question about her blog; “will my blog be around in 20 years?” I never really doubted that her blog would be around in 20 years but it got me thinking. I certainly put more faith in a blogging platform and website vs. a standard paper and pen approach simply because the bits saved in my hosting account are far more likely to be around in 20 years than a notebook or jo

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Openness | Seth Levine

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How to Fail Successfully

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds Randy Komisar on Failure → How to Fail Successfully Posted on January 27, 2009 by fnazeeri Roger Ehrenberg just posted his keynote presentation at SIIA on " Learning from Failure.

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Positioning and pitch decks for startups

BeyondVC

A friend of mine is putting together his first deck for potential investors.  In typical startup fashion, they launched a product, got a number of users, and then iterated several times to improve the service.  With the product in the hands of tens of thousands of users, they started getting inbound requests from larger organizations who were willing to pay for customized and private group related services.  While Version 2.0 will be released to the greater world in the next 6-

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, January 30, 2009 Achieving a failure We spend a lot of time planning. We even make contingency plans for what to do if the main plan goes wrong. But what if the plan goes right, and we still fail? This is the my most dreaded kind of failure, because it tricks you into thinking that youre in control and that youre succeeding.

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Lessons Learned: Refactoring yourself out of business

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, January 28, 2009 Refactoring yourself out of business Let me start out by saying I am a big fan of refactoring , the ongoing process of changing code so that it performs the same behaviors but has more elegant structure. Its an essential discipline of good software development, especially in startups. Nonetheless, I want to talk about a dysfunction Ive seen in several startups: they are literally refactoring themselves to death.