2011
- Recruiting programmers to your startup
- What jobs are users hiring your product to perform?
- Trusting platforms
- An internet of people
- Forces that affect whether a large company will buy your product (according to Marc Andreessen)
- Later-stage rounds and “setting the bar too high”
- Three types of acquisitions
- Technology and job creation
- Growth curves of startups
- Always have 18 months of cash in the bank
- Making industries “garage ready” for startups
- Why is enterprise tech so far behind consumer tech? Because it can be.
- The enterprise: buyers versus users
- “Otherwise do something else”
- Business development: the Goldilocks principle
- Some lessons learned
- Owning equity in your company should be as common as owning equity in your home
- Do you want to sell sugar water or do you want to change the world?
- What the NYC startup world needs (and doesn’t need)
- Pivoting into a new corporate structure
- The downside of accelerated investment decisions
- The tragedy of the anticommons
- Thomas Jefferson on Patents
- Founder/market fit
- Allocation investing and the social premium
- Notes on raising seed financing
- Accurate contrarian theories
- Options
- Best practices for raising a VC round
- There are two kinds of people in the world
- Inferring intent on mobile devices
- Financing risk
- Apple and the TV industry
- Showing up
- Google’s social strategy
- App store shenanigans
- A few points about the “tech bubble” debate
- Founder Stories
- SEO is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups
- The importance of predictability for platform developers
- Selling pickaxes during a gold rush
- Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet dramatically transformed, it will.