Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 2, 2008
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.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 23, 2009
Sure I can build a stock chart, like this one , that shows that eBays stock price went into a four-year decline immediately after "eBay Inc Acquires Dutch Company Marktplaats.nl." Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Youve just experienced vanity metrics hell. Youve just experienced vanity metrics hell.
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Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 26, 2009
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.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 21, 2010
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.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
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. Our patent laws have been weakened reducing the value of intellectual capital.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 30, 2008
Similar mechanisms are at work in the stock market, Google PageRank , and guessing an oxs weight at the state fair. ► 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.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 11, 2008
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. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Guess what they wanted to talk about. Subscription or a la carte payments?
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