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Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

But the investor is already being compensated for that risk in the low price of the stock, so it is unfair to delay. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Even VCs do it.

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Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Startup Lessons Learned

If all the engineers work on the same thing at the same time, and all the marketers do the same, and QA, and ops, all the way down the line, then each department develops its own team-based private reality. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. If those teams are functionally organized, the problem is amplified.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

They take common stock, not preferred, a fact that the entrepreneurs mentioned to me many times. Inspiring ideas: real-time biz metrics; safe continuous deployment; A/B split testing. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Articulate, inspirational. jdegoes : Great talk from @ericries last night.

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What is a startup?

Startup Lessons Learned

Contrast this with other high-risk situations, like buying a high-risk stock. Although the specific payoff of a specific risky stock is not known, investing in many such stocks can be modeled accurately. Thus a decent financial advisor can give you a reasonably accurate long-term expected return for a set of risky stocks.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

The US was once known as a free market democracy that could make the trains run on time. Sarbanes Oxley has made it impossible to go public reducing financial capital for start-ups and the FASB rules on stock options have made it harder to attract human capital to start-ups. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds

Startup Lessons Learned

Similar mechanisms are at work in the stock market, Google PageRank , and guessing an oxs weight at the state fair. Remove any of these essential ingredients, and you can find examples of groups gone bad: the Bay of Pigs invasion fiasco , market bubbles, and pretty much every one of Dilbert s team meetings. Anyway, back to fit.

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Three decisions to make on virtual goods

Startup Lessons Learned

Livelys launch was marred by zillions of sex chat rooms, with people spending hours and hours trying to figure out how to use Livelys stock animations to make their avatars do things that looked kinky. In other words, a marketing department. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.