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MBA Mondays: Optimal headcount at various stages

by Fred Wilson, June 4, 2012 | Comments

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Time and again, the entrepreneur who hires quickly fails, the the one who is a bit slow succeeds

(Fred Wilson is a VC at Union Square Ventures, based in NY. In this opinion piece, he writes about the value of being resource constrained in the early stages of building a company.) This is the third post in the MBA Mondays series on People. The number of people you have in your company at any time is a very ...

Six myths about tech entrepreneurship

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 31, 2012 | Comments

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From what it means to be an overnight success to why business people don't start companies

My good friend Drew Curtis, founder of Fark, invited me to speak at the Haas Business School the other day. Since I've been covering entrepeneurship for years, and have become one in the last several years, he thought I should talk about entrepreneur myths. In other words, what I've learned from entrepreneurs and from being one that aren't so obvious ...

Never take your eyes off this hacker metric

by Nir Eyal, May 28, 2012 | Comments

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The Tao of DAU and MAU

If you’re like me, you’ve had enough of the Facebook IPO story. For tech entrepreneurs struggling to build stuff, the cacophony of recent press is just more noise. That’s why when my friend Andrew Chen posted an insightful analysis of Facebook user data, I was happy to get back to learning from what the company did right instead of debating what its bankers did wrong. ...

Why Facebook is killing Silicon Valley

by Steve Blank, May 23, 2012 | Comments

	The Facebook IPO has reinforced the new calculus for investors We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one ...
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I could build Instagram in a week

by Don Dodge, May 21, 2012 | Comments

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Success looks easy from a distance. Technology seems simple if the design is great.

I could build Instagram in a week. How many times have you heard someone say "I could build [insert hot startup name here] in a week"? I hear it all the time. But, I have yet to see one of these delusional wizards actually do it. They are obviously too busy inventing the next big thing. They fail to realize that building ...

The Darwinian evolution of start-up hubs

by Fred Wilson, May 21, 2012 | Comments

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The first tree in Silicon Valley was Fairchild Semiconductor, founded in 1957

(Fred Wilson is a VC at Union Square Ventures, based in NY. In this opinion piece, he writes about how Silicon Valley became the innovation center of the world and how NYC is emerging as another hotbed for start-ups.) This past weekend finds NYC in between Internet Week (which I largely missed because of my London trip) and Disrupt NYC (which I will ...

Spotting the next Facebook

by Nir Eyal, May 18, 2012 | Comments

	Why emotions are big business Facebook will sell shares Friday in one of the biggest tech IPOs in history. New investors will gobble up the stock to get a piece of the global phenomenon famously started in Mark Zuckerberg’s dorm room in 2004. But while owning the stock will have quantifiable value when it trades on the open market, few buyers will be able to say truthfully ...
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Cloud-based solutions that work for small businesses

by Eric Remer, May 15, 2012 | Comments

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Eliminate overhead costs and get back to your passion

Approximately two-thirds of small business owners started their business to pursue a personal passion, according to Intuit. In the beginning, many small business owners think getting their doors open for business is the most challenging aspect. Often times it isn’t until after they start getting clients through the door that they realize all of the time-consuming, administrative work it takes ...

Five days to change the world

by Steve Blank, May 14, 2012 | Comments

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The Columbia Lean LaunchPad Class

We’ve taught our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and the National Science Foundation in 8 week, 10 week and 12 week versions. We decided to find out what was the Minimum Viable Product for our Lean LaunchPad class. Could students get value out of a 5-day version of the class? The SetupAt the invitation of Murray Low at the Entrepreneurship Center in the Columbia ...

Why innovation dies

by Steve Blank, May 7, 2012 | Comments

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The road for innovation does not go through committee

Faced with disruptive innovation, you can be sure any possibility for innovation dies when a company forms a committee for an “overarching strategy.” —– I was reminded how innovation dies when the email below arrived in my inbox. It was well written, thoughtful and had a clearly articulated sense of purpose. You may have seen one like it in your ...

Strange sex habits of Silicon Valley

by Nir Eyal, May 6, 2012 | Comments

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Fully a third of Americans would rather give up sex than lose their cell phones

My wife put our daughter to bed, brushed her teeth, and freshened up before bed. Slipping under the covers, we exchanged glances and knew it was time to do what comes naturally for a couple on a warm night in Silicon Valley. We began to lovingly caress--but not each other, of course. She began to fondle her cell phone, while ...

Gamification is the exact opposite of what you think

by Steve Patrizi, May 1, 2012 | Comments

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Applying notions of progress, status, rewards to increase productivity in a way that motivates

I It's an understandable perception: you hear the word gamification, and when pronounced correctly [gay-muh-fi-kay-shuhn], the word “game” slaps you right in the face. It must be about making games and playing and having fun, right? Wrong. In fact, it’s the exact opposite. To understand why, let’s start by turning back the clock a bit. [Editor's note: Rajat Paharia, founder ...

Billion-dollar mind trick; How Instagram hooked users

by Nir Eyal, April 23, 2012 | Comments

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The photo-sharing site is conversant in psychology as much as technology

Yin asked not to be identified by her real name. A young addict in her mid-twenties, she lives in Palo Alto, and despite her addiction, attends Stanford University. She has all the composure and polish you’d expect of a student at a prestigious school, yet she succombs to her habit throughout the day. She can’t help it; she’s compulsively hooked. ...

How to build a billion-dollar start-up

by Steve Blank, April 20, 2012 | Comments

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Value propositions solve a problem or fulfill a human social need

The quickest way to create a billion-dollar company is to take basic human social needs and figure out how to mediate them online. (Look at the first wave of the Web/mobile/cloud start-ups that have done just that: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Match.com, Pandora, Zynga, WordPress, LinkedIn.) It’s your turn. Hard-wired This week I’m in New York teaching a 5-day version of my Lean LaunchPad class at Columbia ...

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