Archive for March, 2010

How much traffic do you get from being on the front page of Hacker News?

21, Mar 2010

Last week’s post “Sell Ice Cream, Not Cream and Ice” received 30X the traffic that I my blog posts normally receive.
Normally I get about 50 to 100 visits per post, but this time my post was voted onto the front page of Hacker News and ended up getting 2,530 visits over a three day period.

Here’s [...]

Sell Ice Cream, Not Cream and Ice

13, Mar 2010

Doing a startup?  Think carefully about the differences between technology, product and business.
The startup world is full of incredibly smart people who design new applications that “change the world” but lack a clear business model (product, but no business).  It’s also common to see highly educated people create beautiful code that few users actually care [...]

5 Tips for Conducting Successful Board Meetings

8, Mar 2010

I’m heading up to Vancouver tomorrow for the inaugural board meeting of a startup I recently invested in. It will be the entrepreneur’s first ever board meeting.   It made me think about what I’ve learned about conducting good board meetings.
1) Bring an informed point of view
Startups can be thought of as [...]


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