MetaFilter, started in the late ’90s as one of the original group blogs, grew into a small but active community site. When AdSense came out in…
For an industry that doesn’t do it for the money, we sure talk about money an awful lot in the world of startups.
A few posts were written this past week diving deeper into the numbers that drive VC returns which, in turn, drive behavior in startups…
There I was, minding my own business on Sunday afternoon, when someone decides to rope Indie.vc (and by default, me), into the…
A little over a year ago, we invested in eight companies under the Indie.vc banner. At the time, we recognized that this might be a one time thing. We wanted to create a different funding instrument and a broader definition of what success could look like for a VC-style investment…
4 years ago we kicked off an experiment to define and shape a path of funding distinctly different from the one size fits all venture model of…
I heard from a friend this week that their company was shutting down and, frankly, I was shocked. I…
Since becoming the High Priest of Profit, the Reverend of Revenue, the Bishop of being in the black, I’ve opened myself up…
Seth Godin has a recent post titled “What if scale wasn’t the goal?”.
I’ve posted the entirety of it below:
From restaurants to direct mail, there’s pressure to be scalable, to be efficient, to create something…
About 5yrs ago the team at Basecamp (fka 37Signals) stopped editorial work on a section of their site they…
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