March 2010
10 posts
Four VC Firms Battle For Foursquare, Valuation... →
rafer:
caterpillarcowboy:
jryu:
rafer:
Rafer sez: @denniscrowley Get the winner to give up their presumed pro rata rights, board seat, and preferences entirely, and cut them a break on valuation. You won’t regret it.
Totally totally agree with Rafer. The marginal benefit of an increase in $ valuation diminishes faster if you hold everything else constant. You’re better off negotiating...
Startup To Enterprise: Test Case 2: Lightening... →
Sherri and I went to Test Case II last night at Microsoft Nerd Center. Josh Porter @bokardo, author of Designing for the Social Web, and a Performable co-founder moderated last night’s audience as they provided feedback for Lightning Landing Page Evaluations. EventBrite, Doink, and
Get the Best Free Traffic for your Landing Pages →
performableblog:
Landing pages fall into two categories, the first type are temporal landing pages for advertising campaigns, the second are permanent pages that serve as entry points for their products and services.
Brian Cray has a great post, SEO for bloggers: Crafting high-ranking post titles, that explains a few simple things you can do to help increase the ranking of your landing pages in...
“In the real world, most business plans don’t survive the first few months...”
– Don’t write a business plan
Rex Sez: Yes - Chaos can be fun, startups are full of driven and passionate people that like to work to make success. And they always remember that it is fun, and walk away when it’s no longer fun, because when it’s no longer fun, it becomes just that once... 