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by robfitz 16y ago
Announcing that you've been backed by YC (or any investors) can be enough of a news story to generate some good press, which is most useful if you can control the timing to coincide with other interesting things that you've done (like big f
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by robfitz 16y ago
This article makes no claims, offers no evidence, and says nothing. I humbly suggest you spend your holiday time elsewhere.
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by robfitz 16y ago
I'm okay with this. Their last downtime was 3 years ago. I still get robotic 'network busy' announcements from my mobile phone network, and I pay an awful lot more for that (under an infinitely more draconian contract) than I do for Skype.
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by robfitz 16y ago
Twitter is a different situation. Their previous biz was regular blogging. They thought higher-engagement audio blogging was the next step. They tried it and discovered it was not. Why? Because it took too much energy to create content. So
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by robfitz 16y ago
Which leads to the even more useful page of: https://www.drumbeat.org/node/1544/about It's a peer-to-peer online university, where students teach courses about the areas they're experts in, while others can gain course credit for taking a
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by robfitz 16y ago
Same deal with folks who introduce themselves as professional startup advisors. Be wary! The best ones seem to have tons of interesting stuff going in their lives already and just enjoy helping out young companies when they're in a position
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by robfitz 16y ago
Your math is just backwards. You have left them with what's taken away, rather than what they keep. A 1M on 2M pre deal would leave the founders with 66%, not 33%.
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Just realized 4 years @ 50 hrs/wk on startups is 10k hours practice. There yet?
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by robfitz 16y ago
And the muffled gasp of ten thousand analytics startups dying is heard across the valley.
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by robfitz 16y ago
I appreciate the simplification of a lot of lingo from lean/custdev down to something closer to "you make fewer mistakes when you talk to customers." Much less intimidating and great to see some tangible results already. Will be interested
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by robfitz 16y ago
The biz model blocks from the slide deck are explained in great details (about 60 pages), and the rest is case studies and various ways of visualizing and brainstorming parts of a business. It's well worth the read and has become my primary
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by robfitz 16y ago
Yet another example of mistaking a new startup's state with its vision, from the sort of authors who implore people to "launch early" and then critique them for doing so. Bleh.
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by robfitz 16y ago
I disagree with many replies thus far. Take advantage of stuff that already exists outside your building. Don't try to make the office "fun" prematurely, there are lots of places your team can walk to in 5 minutes. Similarly, fancy conferen
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by robfitz 16y ago
Welcome to Atlanta! ;)
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by robfitz 16y ago
I've opted out twice and it really hasn't been a big deal. It's slightly slower, but the security guys treated me fine. It was no more invasive than being patted down before entering a nightclub to make sure you aren't carrying anything poi
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by robfitz 16y ago
I use http://e.ggtimer.com/30%20minutes Or http://e.ggtimer.com/pomodoro for a full 25/5 cycle
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by robfitz 16y ago
I'm guessing you aren't currently a part of the east london startup community. I'm excited. When we moved the company here, one of my co-founders was deported (back to America). Not helpful. The investors here are very good (Index, Atlas, A
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by robfitz 16y ago
Beautiful. The end-user-facing charts would have saved me lots of hours...
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by robfitz 16y ago
Garmz was my fav company at Seedcamp this year. Looks & sounds like it's moving forward well -- congrats.
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by robfitz 16y ago
It previously used randomized urls with no registration required and the #1 request by a huge margin was that people wanted to feel more secure before beginning to type in their biz model and that registering would achieve that. We live in
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by robfitz 16y ago
Hard to read in the video -- the buttons are: Zealot | Dragoon | Observer | Reaver | Carrier Attack | Defend | Expand The expand button is my favorite...
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by robfitz 16y ago
This code refutes a claim the author didn't make. He was saying that it is in your personal best interest to convince people more sexually conservative than you to start having more sex, which reduces your individual risk. I don't remember
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by robfitz 16y ago
Ya. Can always switch the platform later while keeping the domain credibility.
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Booze and board games (Dominion or Settlers mostly) with buddies.
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by robfitz 16y ago
I've heard a lot of the poker clients are all the same software, licensed out and re-branded with different celebrities. Same deal with many dating sites. "Dating for busy professionals" is often the same site as "Dating for catholics" with
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by robfitz 16y ago
You have to burn a lot of bridges to do it and it leaves a mercenary mark on you and the company. I think it's more likely to destroy morale by making you bitter about each other's ownership than to actually get you to fire each other as an
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by robfitz 16y ago
Depends on the people, but him wanting 100 is a good warning sign that you should quickly get un-involved. 50/50 is what I would expect in your situation, where neither person is obviously going to be carrying the company. If you give a fou
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The permanent pivot (and other pivot problems)(thestartuptoolkit.com)
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The first question comes down to perspective. I totally agree that from the player/portal's perspective it's a full, polished game. But from his perspective, and given his ongoing business intent, it's acting as more of an internal prototyp
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by robfitz 16y ago
Just that it's a comparable situation -- so more literal than an analogy. The particular phrasing is from Komisar & Mullins' book Getting to Plan B.

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