> Internet users > > 1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009). > 18% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year. > 738,257,230 – Internet users in Asia. > 418,029,796 – Inter...
> We can back first-time entrepreneurs and have mentors and role models for them and we have those role models in their second, third, and fourth startups and that’s the magic–that creates a sustainab...
Terms of Service Generator Privacy Policy Generator This is a new service that someone is putting together to help startups with generating the TOS and Privacy Policy that you need on a site. Of cours...
> Zynga is a social gaming giant. Farmville,their largest game, has more than 69 million monthly active users, making it larger than Twitter. Unlike many companies, Zynga also monetizes these users ef...
> By brantcooper, January 13, 2010 2:32 pm > > Based on input from Steve Blank and others, I updated the Customer Development image I created a few weeks ago. Steve suggested I attempt to structure th...
> In Four Steps to the Epiphany, Steve Blank covers (pp. 59-60) strategies for making first customer contacts, the process for engaging early potential customers about your idea. I have been sending a...
via steveblank.com This post from Steve Blank is a good summary about the growth of a startup to a more established company and how it doesn’t just happen over night. It looks like this will be a seri...
> April 15, 2004 > > > > December 9, 2004 > > > > February 27, 2009 > > via blog.adsdevshop.com This post has a full range of the iterations of the pricing layout chart and also the pricing that Basec...
via go-test.it This looks like a cool service for those that are into continuous integration testing. Instead of having to setup the test servers to run your front end tests, they have it all ready to...
> Startup Equity For Employees > > The re-heating of the venture funded tech market has pushed a heat up of the hiring market, and I’m getting more calls from friends asking for help understanding sta...
> [](http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/istock000006711564xsmall.jpg)Enroll in an academic program, make friends with some of the other really smart students, drop out of school with them to cr...
> > > Every so often, venture capitalist Larry Cheng puts out a list of the top VC blogs. Previously, he ranked the blogs by how many subscribers they have on Google Reader. But now he’s changed his m...
via competitious.com This looks like an excellent tool for knowing your enemy or at least the guys that are playing in a similar space to your endeavor. I’ll be trying it out and post up feedback late...
> During this economic downturn, many of us have faced similar circumstances. In trudging through a gloom-and-doom atmosphere, there have been things we wanted to get done, businesses we wanted to exp...
> By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets. > > By 2012, India-centric IT services companies will represent 20 percent of the leading cloud aggregators in the market (through cloud serv...
> 1. UserVoice > > 2. Silverback > > 3. Feedback Army > > 4. UserTesting > > 5 & 6. IdeaScale and Crowdsound > > 7.GetSatisfaction > > 8. UTest via readwriteweb.com This is an excellent list of the va...
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> By brantcooper, January 9, 2010 1:59 pm > > One of the more intriguing dynamics in startups and business in general, is customer communication. Customer Development is, of course, all about talking ...