Window into the mind of Yonas Beshawred. http://leanstack.io/
Seems like “ stop working hard ” is the new mantra . Lots of (rich) people talking about it, and preaching it to the world. Yes, I’m overgeneralizing their posts, and that is not what they’re technically saying. But that is the overarching theme. The problem is, I have yet to hear this advice from someone who started from the bottom and did not overwork themselves. Meaning,…
Some quick stats on my post from a couple of weeks ago on B2Ds: 17,883 unique visitors in 24 hours (72% of which came directly from HackerNews) 117 HN upvotes and 74 comments 232 tweets (and counting) 150 signups on my company’s landing page (including two founders from two large tech companies) 2 introductions to angel investors The story : I saw Fred Wilson’s post , and felt…
The response to my last post has been overwhelming, I had no idea so many people were interested in this topic. Some clarification: Most of the people who disagree with me rightly assume B2D means selling to developers (Business 2 Developer), and unfortunately that’s not accurate. The term itself is inaccurate because these companies are selling a service that is intended to be used by…
There’s been a lot of talk recently about Enterprise and how it is becoming a more attractive space for startups. Suhail at Mixpanel kicked off the discussion most recently, then a GP at Andreessen Horowitz wrote about it , and today Fred Wilson had a great post on it. (It’s also worth mentioning there was a great TC piece on it last month). It seems like people are starting to wake up…
Newsflash: The Twitter appocalypse is upon us. Actually, the app economy as a whole has gone to shit . Making apps is clearly no longer a viable business plan. [Tweetbot, you’re in our prayers ] Steve Blank says: a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model It seems like a lot of people are missing the repeatable/scalable part of the equation…
TL;DR: We shouldn’t lose faith in the independent developer paid app model, we just need to be smarter about how we apply it. I don’t know the team’s reason for taking the deal, but I’m willing to bet that if Sparrow had a subscription model in place (and thus, recurring revenue from all their current paid users) it would have been much harder to accept that offer from…
I’ve been meaning to start this blog for a while. Just a place to vent about tech-related stuff. Every once in a while I feel the need to voice my opinion on an issue or piece of news, it usually goes in the HackerNews comments section. But sometimes I want to write more and I have nowhere to write it, so here we are. Enjoy. “I once read that Mother Teresa said, ‘God…