Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Competes with McAfee , Thawte. Apple TOS update restricts non-independent ad networks from serving ads to iPhone or iPad. -DST invested $180mm last fall. Total raised: $22.0mm.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Worse of all, the plaintext codes we were used to sending were considered non-authoritative, since they could be pulled off a third-party network. There's lots of information about performance and metrics out there, as well as a peer expectation that being concerned about those things is an important part of being a competent engineer.

Software Review 87

Software Review Design Software San Francisco 87

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. This is why companies often get out-competed by former employees (Palm vs Handspring to name just one), even though the upstart lacks all of the familiar resources, tools, processes, and support they used to have. They are closing orders. They are gaining valuable customer data.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

An American with a lot of academic credentials who was in Japan at the time. That identity stems from the identity of the founders usually: the core culture, the core competency. The world of business planning over decades has been full of the non-measurable, hypothetical, useless milestone. Let’s start with lean.

Lean 60

Lean Business Plan Forecast Software Review 60

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 13, 2012

It’s no secret that visitor data measured by Alexa, Compete and others is flat our wrong – [link]. 40 Effectively Designed Non-Profit and Charity Web Sites – [link]. Of the 50 cities in the world with fastest Internet service, 38 are in Japan; only 3 in the US – [link].

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Many of the startups I talk to - and their boards - seem to equate ability to "hit the schedule" with competence and productivity. Even worse, and unlike their established counterparts, startups often experience a non-quantifiable cost of delay. Does this sound familiar? Take a look and let me know what you think.

Product Development 153

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 153

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

I was living in Silicon Valley at the time of the panel, but I had been living abroad for 11 years before returning having lived in England, France, Italy, Spain and Japan as well as establishing physical offices in India. She encouraged people to get out and travel, see the world, see how other people live and operate.

India 334

India New Jersey Silicon Valley France 334

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 7, 2019

The industry if flooded with so many agents and brokerages who waste ample time competing with each other to snag clients while draining productivity. The vast majority of agents and brokerages are peddling essentially the same services at the same non-competitive commissions. It hasn’t kept pace with global competition.

Guatemala 64

Guatemala Non-Compete Entrepreneur Turkey 64

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage.

Software Review 167

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 167

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I'm a bit late, and this one might be controversial to some, but long-duration non-competes hurt the development of startups by adding friction to the entrepreneurial economy. Truth be told, we've got defense contractors here just like California does too. It would be good to spread understanding on this issue.

DC 90

DC Washington San Francisco SBIR 90

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

The solution for app developers caught in this vicious cycle is to develop competency in positioning. I would bet (although I don't have the data) that for normal (non-hyper-addict) Facebook users, the time between logins is strongly correlated with the number of high-quality notifications they receive. So, in summary: 1.

Metrics 88

Metrics San Francisco Lean Viral 88

www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Ruby on Rails lacks a CMS with the mindshare of, say, WordPress, which is good, because every unpatched Ruby on Rails CMS delivered to a non-technical company to serve as their website or backend to their mobile application will be compromised. I was up at 3 AM Japan time applying these patches, twice.

Security 101

Security Software Review Ruby Startup 101

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

If you have a non-trivial amount of goods for people to buy, they are going to have to find ways to sort through them to find the ones they want. Or the alternate model of letting third party currency resellers handle that (but then having to deal with competing in selling credits with those sites)? Appreciate your insights.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 68

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Just make sure to not violate any non-competes, etc, in the process! SVASE or Founder Dating in Silicon Valley, First Tuesday in London and Hackers and Founders in New York all come to mind. Team with co-workers at your current job or that internship you did last summer. Of course, do not use any of your employer’s resources.

Cofounder 66

Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder 66

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy?

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Usually there are different segments that are loyal for different, even competing, reasons. One quibble, I think we have to be careful not to think about the community as a homogeneous group. I saw the post by the Second Life resident about this post and would have to say that Linden Lab is in a no-win situation.

Community 158

Community Management Lean Software Review 158