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The Challenger Products Playbook
Let’s say you have a product concept. You are an outsider. How can you win? Incumbents ape Apple: launch big, perfect, simple, closed, expensive. Challengers rarely can. Today, this is their rule book: Embrace hackers. Open source or bold dev
The Challenger Products Playbook
Let’s say you have a product concept. You are an outsider. How can you win? Incumbents ape Apple: launch big, perfect, simple, closed, expensive. Challengers rarely can. Today, this is their rule book: Embrace hackers. Open source or bold dev
4g Tmobile is a fraud
Tmobile 4g is so awful. It is 4mb down when you get it. I spend most of the day on Edge. I am told tmobile actually rate limits you if you are a top tier usage customer. Hmm. Be slow
4g Tmobile is a fraud
Tmobile 4g is so awful. It is 4mb down when you get it. I spend most of the day on Edge. I am told tmobile actually rate limits you if you are a top tier usage customer. Hmm. Be slow
Gates or Jobs
@anildash gets the credit for the title The content though is one part in the air and one part thanks to Jason from Obvious (i.e. Twitter, Blogger, Google, Branch, etc) Bill Gates used to listen to customers and design strategies
Gates or Jobs
@anildash gets the credit for the title The content though is one part in the air and one part thanks to Jason from Obvious (i.e. Twitter, Blogger, Google, Branch, etc) Bill Gates used to listen to customers and design strategies
The strategist
People talk themselves into starting companies usually. It’s kind of fun to daydream about and a thing that some very technical, smart people do is sit in their corporate jobs and get enamoured with a strategic or theoretical insight. This
The strategist
People talk themselves into starting companies usually. It’s kind of fun to daydream about and a thing that some very technical, smart people do is sit in their corporate jobs and get enamoured with a strategic or theoretical insight. This
The nephew
Picking up on my all the weak founders “fit familiar patterns” theme, today I offer another one. 2. The nephew. This kid is smart and can do stuff. Good grades, got a good job, polished, talks. Not a programmer. The
The nephew
Picking up on my all the weak founders “fit familiar patterns” theme, today I offer another one. 2. The nephew. This kid is smart and can do stuff. Good grades, got a good job, polished, talks. Not a programmer. The
What do you learn from novice founders?
Science is about patterns, the key to knowledge. And observing founders reveals many patterns too. The problem is that starting and building companies takes time, and for great successes also rare luck, so the patterns that make the winner are
What do you learn from novice founders?
Science is about patterns, the key to knowledge. And observing founders reveals many patterns too. The problem is that starting and building companies takes time, and for great successes also rare luck, so the patterns that make the winner are
The wannabe Fred Wilson Playbook
Sometime say 10ish years ago a venture capitalist started a blog where he talked about stuff he liked in great detail. He called himself “A VC”. His URL was like Avc.blogger.com or some such. He seemed kind of with it
The wannabe Fred Wilson Playbook
Sometime say 10ish years ago a venture capitalist started a blog where he talked about stuff he liked in great detail. He called himself “A VC”. His URL was like Avc.blogger.com or some such. He seemed kind of with it
Moving moving from Dreamhost to Amazon (all by myself)
Oh boy I am feeling very pleased with myself. I have an AWS micro instance which is free. I setup apache on it so it’s a web server. I got mysql set up with a user and remote access. I
Moving moving from Dreamhost to Amazon (all by myself)
Oh boy I am feeling very pleased with myself. I have an AWS micro instance which is free. I setup apache on it so it’s a web server. I got mysql set up with a user and remote access. I
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