via blog.yo.lk That’s the money shot there. Awesome write-up from a company that is in a similar situation to my startup. If you are considering not doing a freemium offering, check this out....
> Yes, Top 10 lists are clichéd, but I think they’re ubiquitous for a reason. Ten items is a long enough list to be useful, but more than that causes busy people (or those with short attention spans) ...
via businessmodelalchemist.com This is an interesting Creative Commons template for putting together a business model. The linked page has references to the template and also a post about how to use i...
> Mar 03, 2010 – > > As a marketing tool Twitter gets much more interesting and useful when you can filter out 99% of the junk that doesn’t apply to your objectives and focus on the stuff that matters...
> Recent Questions > > Can you choose how you want to be taxed when owning a LLC? > > Tips to an effective marketing? > > Top Resources For Entrepreneurs? via startups.com OK, I’m not sure how many of...
> > > Last night, I attended the DC Lean Startup Circle in Arlington, Virginia, hosted by Kevin Dewalt and Ken Yarmosh, featuring a couple of industry heavy weights, Dave McClure and Eric Ries, talkin...
> Hong Kong has been as busy as usually. It has been a pleasure to meet a lot of entrepreneurs and people who are helping startups. Our main bank HSBC also has now their head office functions, includi...
via nytimes.com...
> In my first post, A brief history of your investors (and their investors), I wrote about the history of venture capital. I described how the economy and stock market drives investments into venture ...
via steveblank.com Another excellent post on understanding the role of a minimum viable product in the life cycle of a startup....
> No more hassle > > Cloudkick takes the pain out of running servers by putting a host of world-class tools at your fingertips. > > Custom alert thresholds only notify you when it’s a real emergency, ...
> 10 Tips for a Strong Start > > Make sure you have a clear vision and plan–and that you stick to them. > > As someone who has been called a serial entrepreneur, I’ve had more than my fair share of ex...
> posterous, “the dead simple place to post everything.” Posterous was part of Y Combinator in the summer of 2008, and immediately got traction after being launched on Techcrunch. > > In this intervie...
> I have spent the last three days in Singapore. They have really hot season at the moment, almost 100 Fahrenheit every day. Someone said that it is hotter than for 100 years. And in Singapore it mean...
> Running a small business isn’t easy! It’s hard to keep up with general administration tasks, stay on top of your finances, and even measure your marketing efforts. And lets face it, that’s just star...
> What is onboarding, and why is it important? > > Most companies think that getting people to sign up is the ultimate challenge, but what about getting them oriented to your site and actually using i...
> Event Highlights: What to Expect From echelon 2010? > > > > Asia’s leading web technology event: echelon2010 aims to be at the frontier of the web technology landscape, where the main focus will be ...
> 2) Virality — So many people misunderstand virality. Virality is not “word of mouth”. And having a product go viral is not easy — nor is it something you can just “sprinkle on a product” after creat...
Before I say anything else, let me start with that I am still friends with my co-founder of Sampi, but friends and business don’t always mix well. When we first started working on our startup, everyth...
Last week I’ve done a sharing in CUHK for web startup for Engineering Student, besides the sharing for school life and why a startup — I did spent quite some time talk about the biggest mistakes in ou...
