Jeffrey Funk and Adam Acar wrote an article for Nikkei Asia titled Ride-hailing insanity shows Japan is right to shun startups.
Continue reading “of 133 publicly traded unicorns in the U.S., 89 had cumulative losses greater than their annual revenues”Mix of founders shapes the identification of market opportunities in tech startups
Marc Gruber, Ian C. MacMillan, James D. Thompson wrote a paper titled From Minds to Markets: How Human Capital Endowments Shape Market Opportunity Identification of Technology Start-Ups.
Continue reading “Mix of founders shapes the identification of market opportunities in tech startups”Plan to Quit Your Startup After Five Years
Arianne Cohen wrote an article for Bloomberg BusinessWeek titled Forget a Lifetime Commitment. Plan to Quit Your Startup After Five Years (November 8, 2021).
Continue reading “Plan to Quit Your Startup After Five Years”Acquiring the First Thousand Customers
Michael Blanding wrote an article for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge titled How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers (13 July 2016). The article is about Harvard Business School’s Thales Teixeira’s research about how platform companies attract their first customers.
Continue reading “Acquiring the First Thousand Customers”It’s possible for start ups to have too much capital
Annanth Aravinthan wrote a Twitter thread about starting UBER Eats. “Reflecting at my time at UBER, I do think it’s possible for start ups to have “too much capital”. I personally fell into two traps in retrospect…”
Continue reading “It’s possible for start ups to have too much capital”Replace Minimum Viable Product with SLC
Jason Cohen wrote a blog post titled I hate MVPs. So do your customers. Make it SLC instead. Continue reading “Replace Minimum Viable Product with SLC”
Humans Don’t Hyperscale
Dr. Augustine Fou wrote a blog post titled Humans Don’t Hyperscale. Sorry, Silicon Valley. Continue reading “Humans Don’t Hyperscale”
Doug Garnett on tech startup pricing
Doug Garnett wrote a blog post titled Pricing and Complexity (Part 3): The Tech Obsession with Cheap. This post is about the proliferation of VC-backed startups offering “a premium product or service at a discount price,” including Amazon, Uber, Lyft, MoviePass, Dollar Shave, WeWork, Casper, Blue Apron, Spotify, Netflix, and StitchFix. “Yet Not a Stich of Profit to be Found.”
Stratechery analysis of the WeWork IPO
Ben Thompson of Stratechery wrote an analysis of the WeWork IPO.
« WeWork’s offering transforms real estate into a variable cost for all kinds of companies, with benefits that roughly mirror public clouds. » Continue reading “Stratechery analysis of the WeWork IPO”
WeWork – 2 commentaries
A couple of insightful, unflattering articles about WeWork… Continue reading “WeWork – 2 commentaries”
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