Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 12, 2014
'Yesterday I wrote a post about “ growth hacking ” and why I thought it was wrong that people were hating on the term unnecessarily. It’s worth a quick read. My argument is pretty simple. If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group.
Gust
JANUARY 12, 2014
'Image via CEOAfterLife.com. Too many entrepreneurs confuse actions with momentum and results. We all know someone who repeatedly tells us how “busy” they are, when it’s hard to see what they get done. Momentum is moving things forward (mass x velocity). Founders or employees in constant motion, but with no momentum, will never get off the ground. It is true that motion in any direction is often better than no motion at all.
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This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 13, 2014
'Someone dropped the phrase "Rollover App" to me the other day--referring to the first app you open up when you wake up. It was funny and true.and kind of sad. I realized the other day that the very first thing in the morning that I do is check various things on the internet--and it''s because my phone is my alarm. That alarm clock is the trojan horse that the internet uses to sneak into my day.
Derek Sivers
JANUARY 15, 2014
I had just moved to Singapore when I met the brilliant Benjamin Joffe. He’s a startup consultant and investor from France, who has spent the last 13 years living around Asia — a few years each in Korea , China , and Japan. I asked him if he could tell me the most important thing he learned from living in these different countries. He said, “ Even though we are all using English as a common language, the same word can mean very different things in different places.”.
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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 14, 2014
'If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. TL;DR. Tech news keeps proclaiming “phone calls are dead,” which is useful except that the data suggests the exact opposite. Calls are changing but not dying. All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey).
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This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 14, 2014
'Yesterday, as a joke, I sent Josh Kopelman the kind of text that would probably make him cringe if I had sent it by e-mail. (No, it wasn''t a pic of any kind--just a joke.). Knowing Josh, he still probably cringed, but he cringed a little bit less because we were both using Confide --a sort of Snapchat for professionals. There''s no lasting record of me ever having sent that note and he only got to look at it once before it disappeared.
Derek Sivers
JANUARY 11, 2014
If you know you’ll never go to Asia, you can skip this. If you’re looking for a travel guide, you can skip this. But if you might do business in Asia, have thought about moving to Asia, or just want to understand the cultures of Asia, you will love this. 16 books about moving to and doing business in 16 countries in Asia: Cambodia , China , Hong Kong , India , Indonesia , Japan , Korea , Malaysia , Mongolia , Myanmar , Philippines , Singapore , Sri Lanka , Taiwan , Thailand , and Vietnam.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 11, 2014
'There’s an article making the rounds in tech circles titled “ Growth Hacking is Bull ” written by Muhammad Saleem. I’d like to make the case that the article is wrong. I’d strongly encourage you to read it. I actually really enjoyed many of the points Muhammad made about marketing in general and I found myself nodding through the entirety of the article except for it’s core premise.
Gust
JANUARY 11, 2014
'The page rank algorithm for Gust is a deeply held secret so that people won’t game the system (they even won’t tell ME how it works! , but I do know that it is intended to surface both “investable” companies and companies that are willing make available to serious investors all the information they need to make at least a first-pass decision.
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Tomasz Tunguz
JANUARY 14, 2014
Churn is one of the most important metrics for businesses. Churn dictates customer lifetime, lifetime value (CLV), customer acquisition spend and customer success spending. In short, churn is pivotal number to evaluate a startup’s business, both for founders/management teams and investors. Unfortunately, accurately measuring churn rates/lifetime value is more complex than I initially thought.
Berkonomics
JANUARY 16, 2014
'By JJ Richa. Dave’s note: Our guest insight this week is from JJ Richa. JJ is a successful entrepreneur and technologist giving back to the entrepreneurial. community in many ways, including his weekly Internet TV program on entrepreneurism, and participation in several mentoring programs. . Business partnerships have their advantages and disadvantages.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 16, 2014
'I’m a cynic by nature. And I think it pays to be so. I sometimes wish I were an unbridled, happy-go-lucky, assume-the-best-in-everybody sort of chappy. Sadly, I’m not. You know the old Groucho Marx saying, “I would never join a club that would accept me as a member.” I always loved that line. So whenever I get a deal sent my way that is from out of town and seems amazing but seems almost too good to be true, my first thought is always, “Why am I so lucky?
Gust
JANUARY 15, 2014
'Boy, do I wish there was a magical Gmail extension to let me manage my startup deals! Unfortunately, there isn’t (and since Google hasn’t fixed Gmail yet, if you’re actually a paying customer for Google Apps, instead of a free customer, you have strictly limited Gmail mail storage, and are not allowed to purchase more, at any price!
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Tomasz Tunguz
JANUARY 13, 2014
In “Why Winning Streaks End” , Rosabeth Kantar, a professor at HBS, explains the key to maintaining momentum in any company is maintaining the discipline of every day processes. Similarly, Atul Gawande’s book Better echoes this idea. For surgeons, the best way to keep patients safe and healthy is ticking through a checklist before each surgery.
Gust
JANUARY 12, 2014
'Image via CEOAfterLife.com. Too many entrepreneurs confuse actions with momentum and results. We all know someone who repeatedly tells us how “busy” they are, when it’s hard to see what they get done. Momentum is moving things forward (mass x velocity). Founders or employees in constant motion, but with no momentum, will never get off the ground. It is true that motion in any direction is often better than no motion at all.
Gust
JANUARY 11, 2014
'The page rank algorithm for Gust is a deeply held secret so that people won’t game the system (they even won’t tell ME how it works! , but I do know that it is intended to surface both “investable” companies and companies that are willing make available to serious investors all the information they need to make at least a first-pass decision.
Gust
JANUARY 13, 2014
'If you could pick the top five countries with the most newly created startups, which countries would you choose? The United States? What about India, or Brazil? With thousands of new entrepreneurs creating startup profiles on Gust each month, we’re excited to share with you some of the major findings that are happening in the startup world. To capture the global reach of startup growth, we’ve put together the Gust quarterly startup map.
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Gust
JANUARY 13, 2014
'If you could pick the top five countries with the most newly created startups, which countries would you choose? The United States? What about India, or Brazil? With thousands of new entrepreneurs creating startup profiles on Gust each month, we’re excited to share with you some of the major findings that are happening in the startup world. To capture the global reach of startup growth, we’ve put together the Gust quarterly startup map.
Tomasz Tunguz
JANUARY 15, 2014
On the heels of last week’s post about the Health of the Public Technology Market , Felix Salmon asked the thought-provoking question above. Despite the 68x growth in the value of technology market caps since 1980, are newer average technology companies worth less? Surprisingly, yes. The average public tech company value has falled by more than 2/3rds from $4.3B in the early 80s to $1.4B today, as measured in 2014 dollars.
Tomasz Tunguz
JANUARY 12, 2014
I’ll never forget the first time I was assigned a sales quota. I was six months into a sales role at Google in which I on-boarded and managed the accounts of social networks running AdSense ads. Our key metric was customer satisfaction and retention. After a few months, I was starting to get into a groove. And then, our team was assigned a new manager who put the team on a quota, sending me into a tailspin.
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