Ben Hatten
I'm in charge of the school network for EverFi and a die hard Notre Dame fan.
You hear people in the Valley always say ‘I want my entrepreneurs to be hungry.” I agree with that, but think there’s a difference between being panicked and being hungry. And I think too often founders find themselves with negative net worth, credit card bills, etc and they get freaked out.
–Video: Chris Sacca Helps Founders Cash Out Shares Early
Love that Sacca.
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the funniest world cup sign i’ve seen thus far was shown during N. Korea’s match last week
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It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.
- Scott Belsky
Innovation is almost insane by definition: most people view any truly innovative idea as stupid, because if it was a good idea, somebody would have already done it.
– Why We Prefer Founding CEOs // ben’s blogTwo-Sided Markets: Which Side First?
I found myself speaking to an entrepreneur recently about how to develop a two-sided market. I thought I would relay some of our thoughts on the topic.
Note that there is a decent bit…
bijan sabet: Freemium backlash?
It’s easy to kick someone when they are having trouble I guess. Ning announced a significant layoff and the critics pounced.
I guess I wasn’t surprised at this point. But the thing that surprised me was the negativity about freemium.
Just because some companies struggle with freemium doesn’t…
Apple is setting the stage to become one of the biggest winners in the storied history of vertically integrated companies.
Great analysis by Steve Cheney on why Apple is trying to kill Flash on the iphone and the ipad.
Couple keep take aways :
By telling developers to move to XCode tools, Apple is setting the stage to potentially switch architectures.
If this is indeed the case, then iPhone OS 4.0 would bring incredible speed improvements to the iPad
Apple is sowing the groundwork to make architecture changes seamless—developers will only need to flip a switch to give their apps blazing, native performance.
bijan sabet: Ask first before rushing to judgement
Last night was like any other night.
After a day at the office I got into my car and drove home. I got on the the Mass Pike near Copley Square and 100 yards later a SUV from the left lane came across two lanes hit me on the left side and drove me into the wall of the underpass.
The driver of…
Interesting Read - and very impressed by Bijan’s response. That might be the best sales pitch ever to try and get Bijan on your board as entrepreneur (I hear he has an okay track record as well).
Building a platform for developers is much like running a casino. Some people may make money along the way, through luck or by accident. But the house always wins
Venture Beat had a great article today about Twitter - and the recent noise they’ve made in a couple of their acquisitions. Any developers who were surprised by the move had to be a little naive in my opinion. Twitter raised a massive round, including from the likes of T.Rowe and they didn’t raise that round just to sit around. Twitter is going to find a way to monetize on their amazing traffic, or they are going to go down trying. They are perfectly positioned to continue to cherry pick the best start ups who leverage their API. Its an amazing opportunity for developers as well - create something cool and you have a very good chance of being tapped on the shoulder a la tweetie.
