Learnings

Why did Blink fail?

Posted on November 5, 2008. Filed under: Learnings, Social Networking |

Blink.com started in 1999 was one of the earliest social bookmarking site founded, they were 5 years earlier than de.licio.us. They had bookmarking under folders like this:

Blink had started way ahead, had great staff, had USD 13M in funding. But failed to make the impact that delicious did much later, delicious was acquired by Yahoo [...]

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The first 100k users are always the hardest

Posted on November 3, 2008. Filed under: Learnings |

From Matt Mullenweg, WordPress in this podcast:
(1) Be a most passionate user
(2) Be detail oriented – analyze and discuss every thing
(3) Get off the computer: Use pencil, paper and a nice place to solve problems
(4) Be your own support: Instead of AJAX feedback form a contact us page with a support form works better. Try [...]

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Web 2.0 Applications – Do we need User Adaptablity?

Posted on March 20, 2007. Filed under: Case Studies, Learnings, Social Networking |

Obviously, the answer is yes. But are the products coming out really user adaptable. I will take that topic for another blog. But today I want to touch upon why we need user adaptability.
A friend of mine gave this interesting analogy. Few years ago, a software was delivered to flight control attendants to use in [...]

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Can a free Web 2.0 survive on ads?

Posted on March 3, 2007. Filed under: Business, India Internet, Learnings |

Scrivs has a interesting post on “Why there is no Ad-Supported Fast Food“
“If McDonalds were to go the Web 2.0 route everything on the menu would either be free or under a dollar with a huge ad slapped on the packaging. Or maybe they fill your bag with more junk than your mailbox just to push some [...]

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Learnings from Salesforce

Posted on March 3, 2007. Filed under: Learnings |

Tien Tzuo, Chief Strategy Officer, Salesforce.com gives some lessons to budding entrepreneurs
Listen to him here
Salesforce.com is trying to morph the world of complex enterprise software into the simplicity of Internet,
they started about 8 years back, have 5 Lakh plus users with 800$ Average revenue per user
Seven lessons:
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Learnings from Zazzle and Trilogy

Posted on March 3, 2007. Filed under: Learnings |

Stanford Entrepreneurship Educational Resources site has several videos and podcasts from successful entrepreneurs
Here are the learnings from Zazzle and Trilogy
Bobby and Jeff Beaver on Zazzle: listen here

Small team can accomplish a lot, you don’t need 50 people and 100m dollars to create world class products anymore
Have confidence in yourself, your intuition, and your [...]

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