Remove 2010 Remove Cofounder Remove Dilution Remove Metrics
article thumbnail

Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders | @altgate

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← No one wants to tell you your baby is ugly More on Liquidation Preferences → Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders Posted on December 15, 2010 by admin Here’s a chart of the day worth sharing.

article thumbnail

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read. Brant and Patrick undertook a difficult challenge: to provide a generally accessible introduction to Customer Development, without diluting its impact or dumbing-down its principles.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. And as everyone’s attention starts to focus on those same indicators, their value is being diluted. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. Is that a lot?

article thumbnail

A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

They had their own private forum, and a company founder (aka me) personally ran the group in its early days. Every time you listen to customers, you fear diluting your vision. They had their own private forum, and a company founder (aka me) personally ran the group in its early days. Here’s what it looks like.

article thumbnail

Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

In fighting to have developers checking in code dictate production releases, you risk looking unreasonable and diluting a powerful message that everyone should agree on: "small batches of changes that are automatically and continuously tested" June 15, 2009 7:55 PM Matthew D Edwards said. January 29, 2010 11:18 AM Eric said. >

article thumbnail

90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

betashop.com

On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “ 57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.”. When we pivoted from fabulis to Fab, we pivoted towards building a business around the unique tastemaker talents of one of our founders, Bradford Shellhammer. Founders need to personally own something big themselves.

article thumbnail

People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us. So you met me in 2010.