2009
- What’s strategic for Google?
- What’s the right amount of seed money to raise?
- Are people more willing to pay for digital goods on mobile devices?
- Why the web economy will continue growing rapidly
- Google should open source what actually matters: their search ranking algorithm
- Anatomy of a bad search result
- Google’s feature creep
- Search and the social graph
- Why did Skype succeed and Joost fail?
- Does a VC’s brand matter?
- Some thoughts on SEO
- The importance of institutional redundancy
- Pitch yourself, not your idea
- Presenting Founder Collective
- How to select your angel investors
- The most important question to ask before taking seed money
- Embrace the medium
- Twelve months notice
- The ideal startup career path
- The challenge of creating a new category
- If Verizon’s Droid is good, that’s bad for the wireless ecosystem
- Dow 10,000 and economic reflexivity
- What’s the relationship between cost and price?
- What carries you up will also bring you down
- Understanding your market
- Man and superman
- The importance of asking people questions
- The problem with online “local” businesses
- Why does it matter that Twitter is supplanting RSS?
- Why content sites are getting ripped off
- Twitter killed RSS (and that’s a bad thing)
- What if online business model innovation is slowing down?
- The new economy
- Online advertising is all about purchasing intent
- Yahoo should invest in products, not advertising
- Software patents should be abolished
- Climbing the wrong hill
- Thanks…
- The inevitable showdown between Twitter and Twitter apps
- Entrepreneurs need to learn some law
- Google and newspapers: the false choice of opting out
- Non-linearity of technology adoption
- Getting a job in venture capital
- Is now a good time to start a company?
- The only college major that matters
- Incubators
- Dividing free and paid features in “freemium” products
- Question from a reader
- Don’t shop your term sheet
- Information is the (other) currency of venture capital
- VC’s care about the upside case, not the mean
- New York City is poised for a tech revival
- To make smarter systems, it’s all about the data
- Thales the Milesian
- function my_exit_payout(…)
- The one number you should know about your equity grant
- Pitching the VC partnership
- Six strategies for overcoming “chicken and egg” problems
- Dividing equity between founders
- Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret
- Machine learning is really good at partially solving just about any problem
- Options on early stage companies
- Ideal first round funding terms
- The problem with tranched VC investments
- Why seed investors don’t like convertible notes
- The myth of the Eureka moment
- Joining a startup is far less risky than most people think
- Founder vesting
- Naming your startup