When writing about the hyper-niche strategy, I thought back to all my own side projects. In this post, I offer a brief post-mortem for each one, so you can learn from my mistakes and don’t repeat them. (There were even more projects, but these were the main ones.) Webmaster forum (2003-2015)While this started as a…
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PayPal Early Days
I have finished reading the PayPal founding story. I love reading stories about the products I use. Learnings: PayPal (Confinity-side) assembled a wonderful team and created a very entrepreneurial culture. David Sacks and Peter Thiel played important roles. It was actually David Sacks who was responsible for the last-minute deal with eBay. He played a…
Jajah, LinkedIn und Co. an Startup Success 2006
Interessante Podiumsdiskussion mit Gründern von Jajah, LinkedIn, Photobucket, JotSpot und PNN moderiert von Guy Kawasaki: Highlights: Geschichte wie Jajah von Sequoia Capital finanziert wurde Beispiel eines Premium-Service von Jajah Interessante CNN-Studie: 19% der Amerikaner glauben sie seien unter den Top 1% Verdienern (und weitere 20% glauben, sie würden irgendwann unter den Top 1% Verdienern sein)…