Monthly Archives: September 2011

Chris Sacca’s Inspiring Story

By Jonni | Published: 2011/09/29
If you’re into startups this is a must see video, where Chris Sacca casually recounts his amazing ups and downs to Kevin Rose: http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/07/06/chris-sacca-has-an-inspiring-story-to-tell/
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Bowling Pin Strategy

By Jonni | Published: 2011/09/29
How would you start something like eBay? Would you first convince a bunch of sellers to come to a site that has no buyers? Or the other way around? What about a social site? No readers, no writers (or sharers). No writers, no readers. The answer is the “bowling pin strategy”, beautifully described by Chris [...]
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Ten Tips from Atlassian Co-Founder

By Jonni | Published: 2011/09/23
Mind you some of the tips are only practical once you’re out of the garage mode i.e once you have spare time and cash to burn. Other than that it’s a pretty nice set of ideas. http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2011/09/from-0-100million-with-no-sales-people-the-atlassian-10-commandments-for-startups.html
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What is Premature Scaling? Why is It Bad for Startups?

By Jonni | Published: 2011/09/04
A very nice write up on premature scaling from the Startup Genome project.  The article also provides example startups that fail a particular dimension, it even cites Groupon as failing in the Business Model dimension. A bit premature to be using Groupon as an example? (Pardon the pun)
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