2012
- Plans are nothing, but planning is indispensable
- The product lens
- Some problems are so hard they need to be solved piece by piece
- a16z
- Agency problems
- The economic logic behind tech and talent acquisitions
- Regulatory hacks
- The rise of enterprise marketing
- Vanity milestones
- Notes on the acquisition process
- The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed
- E-commerce startups
- Ten million users is the new one million users
- Shoehorning startups into the VC model
- Capabilities and sensibilities
- How bundling benefits sellers and buyers
- Pricing to the demand curve
- The real strategy behind tiered data plans
- Why the integrated approach to mobile devices is winning
- Firing
- Critics and practitioners
- Equity value
- Different types of risk
- Some thoughts on when to raise money, and the current financing environment
- The experience economy
- When should you give up on an idea?
- Four types of mobile apps
- The default state of a startup is failure
- Blogging to learn
- Is it a tech bubble?
- Incumbents die due to irrelevance or ineptitude
- The risks of being a small investor in a private company
- Outsource things you don’t care about
- Offline first, mobile enabled
- “Meaningful” startups
- There are two ways to make large datasets useful
- Increasing velocity
- Facebook’s response to Yahoo’s patent lawsuit
- Revisited: big VCs investing in seed rounds
- Give away the diagnostic, sell the remedy
- The myth of the overnight success
- Some tips for interacting with the press
- The internet is reshaping our economy from one of huge corporations with lots of jobs to huge platforms with lots of income streams
- Once you take money, the clock starts ticking
- Big timing
- “It is the human friction that makes the sparks”
- Platform distribution risks
- eBay vs Amazon: decentralized vs centralized e-commerce
- Between failure and Facebook
- Some thoughts on the iPhone contact list controversy and app security
- And then, suddenly, it works
- Bedrock programming
- Who should learn to program?
- What’s not evil: ranking content fairly *and* letting public content get indexed
- Chris Sacca on the implied user contract
- Revenue vs margin
- Maximizing capacity utilization as a startup premise
- Building products from improvised user behaviors