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Scalable Startup
AUGUST 26, 2014
the original products can’t generate revenue, so when these OS projects occassionally blow up into phenomenons like Drupal and WordPress have over the past few years, it’s gratifying but also quite frustrating to watch others derive so much value from your baby while you toil away to lead its growth with no financial return.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 25, 2010
This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. Everyone was in the flow; the team was hyper-productive.
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Agile VC
AUGUST 1, 2012
The best example of this was Facebook’s disclosure during their IPO process back in May that “mobile” usage was increasing significantly but FB’s monetization of mobile users lagged considerably. productivity – Evernote). Gameloft, Rovio) and a couple $1B+ revenue companies in Asia (GREE, DeNA).
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 4, 2009
Every product ultimately is satisfying a need in the customers who buy it or use it. Products that dont solve satisfy any need for any customers tend to die out quickly. The more painful curse for startups is the product that satisfies a need or solves a problem - but that problem is not very important. Thats an early adopter.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 16, 2009
Joe Ludwig goes through his current release process and determines that the current time to make and deploy a release is about seven and half hours, which is why his product is released about once a month. We often send down complete instructions for rendering a whole page (or even a series of pages) in response to every single click.
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