Mobile Distribution’s Second Wave
At Etsy, 20% of visits are mobile. This trend isn’t only happening at Etsy – it’s increasingly common across our web companies to find 20 to 40% of traffic coming [...]
How am I going to enable greatness today?
There are many who believe Steve Jobs was a creative genius. I think it would be more accurate to say he was a genius who loved creativity. Ken Segall in [...]
The Drivers of the Experience Economy
Chris Dixon wrote in his Experience Economy post: The trend toward experiences is important for technology startups. The era of competing over technical specifications is over. Users want better experiences [...]
Burn rate benchmarks
How does a VC think about your burn rate? First, it’s important to note that every company is different. Second, geography is an important factor. Third, pure consumer companies’ finances will [...]
Being Svbtle
I’m lucky to have joined a great collection of bloggers as part of the Svbtle network run by Dustin Curtis. I’ll be posting more regularly on svbtle.com (also accessed via [...]
Weekly Tech News for May 27, 2012
Market Analysis & Industry News The EU passed legislation in 2009 that requires websites to ask user permission before storing any user data on cookies or other client side storage [...]
Your Startup’s Pricing Strategy
Every SaaS business must to decide how to charge for the service. Pricing plans are some of the most difficult decisions to make. Equally important to the price is determining [...]
Your Startup’s 10 Most Important Metrics.
One of my favorite CEOs likes to tell me a metric is only useful if it answers an important question. Earlier in the week we reviewed how to build a [...]
Whiskey, your startup and hiring
“Tell me the brand of Whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.” – Abraham Lincoln, in response to news about [...]
Maximizing your conversion funnels
A funnel is the basic building block of a startup. Every product feature is a funnel. Every marketing campaign is a funnel. Every upsell is a funnel. You should analyze [...]
