Archive for March, 2007
Startup School - Greg McAdoo, Mark Zuckerberg, Joel Lehrer (Part 4/4)
Friday, March 30th, 2007Greg McAdoo
Elements of a sustainable company
Clarity of purpose
How concise are you? Know your business. Define Problem and solution. Know the problem Get out early and interate. Don’t expect a perfect product with initial release. Get feedback. Know your competition. Exploit a hole in your competition. Do something they they’re afraid to […]
Startup School - Hadi and Ali Partovi, Rahoul Seth, Mitch Kapor (Part 3)
Thursday, March 29th, 2007Hadi and Ali Partovi
Is my Idea a Winner?
Can you explain customer need in 1 or 2 sentences?
Does the idea/business scale?
Are you creating added value? What would’ve people lost without you?
If you’re dependent on 1 supplier or customer, they have you by the balls.
Will users recruit other users?
Viral marketing.
Will value increase when customer’s increase?
Social networking
Are […]
Startup School - Chris Anderson, Paul Graham, Michael Mandel, Max Levchin (Part 2)
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007Chris Anderson
As more content/choices come out, the demand is distributed among the population.
Most of your market will be in the middle of a bell curve. Niche markets on the other hand are away from the middle and thus smaller.
In our current market, 20% of the products account for 80% of the sales.
Caused by networks […]
Startup School - Mark Macenka and Paul Buchheit (Part 1)
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007On Saturday, March 24, 20007, I had the pleasure of attending Startup School at Stanford University. Here I saw many presenters including Paul Buchheit (Creator of Gmail), Paul Graham (Founder of YCombinator), Mitch Kapor (Founder of Lotus and Co-Founder of the EFF), and many more.
It was inspiring to say the least. It opened […]
RSS - Inside (Part 2)
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007In the previous article I demonstrated a practical application of RSS with Google Reader.
Now that we have a working example of RSS in action, let’s dig a bit deeper and see what’s inside an RSS feed. For this article, we’re going to use RSS 2.0 as our primary example.
An RSS feed is made up of […]
RSS - Introduction (Part 1)
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007Adam Darowski recently asked to pick my brain about writing a PHP script to create an RSS feed from a database. As one of my favorite “Web 2.0” technologies, I figured I would write a 3-part introductory series on RSS and PHP.
In this series I want to cover a couple topics:
What is RSS?
Digging […]
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