Great video highlighting the immigration challenges faced by foreign entrepreneurs in the US and making a strong case for the Startup Visa (featuring interviews with Ben Way, Brian Wong and Augusto Marietti).
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This video has been around for a while now but, after seeing Grasshopper’s CEO David Hauser speak (and show the video) at this weekend’s SuperConf2011 conference, I couldn’t resist posting it again.
Also check out the great content and words of wisdom on David’s tumblog here.
From Mark Suster’s brilliant guest post on Techcrunch about whether you should be a startup entrepreneur.
Continuations: Don't Compete - Change the Game
I know that “don’t compete - change the game” can easily be seen as kind of a trite slogan. But I still find myself in many meetings with startups where the strategy can be summed up by: our plan is to do this better than our competitors. While out-executing others is possible and companies…
Reality is, at the seed stage, most rocketships look more like the cardboard variety you’d make as a kid than something NASA developed. Pour rocketfuel into your cardboard creation and you’re more likely to see it go up in flames than into orbit.
— from Bryce T. Roberts’ post about this being a great time to be unfundable.
One of the commenters also provides a related quote from David Morgan:
Right now you are still in the driveway - stepping on the gas will make you go right through the garage.
Well shucks, guys–it seems to be just a bunch of words and topics I’ve mentioned in Tweets over the last few years, connected by lines. Doesn’t really convince me that you understand that much about me and what I want to read.
—from Liz Gannes’ article about Gravity’s plans to personalize any content site.
Liz’s reaction to Gravity’s interest graph for her was similar to my own experience when using Gravity’s Twinterest application. It is definitely possible to infer someone’s interests from their Twitter account by analyzing their posts and who they follow. However the way Gravity is doing it—-seemingly ignoring sentiment and frequency, and without a ‘whitelist’ of interests—-is not leading to good results so far.
I doubt I’ll ever go back to corporate work. Once you see the light, there is no turning back.
- Magnus Jepson
markitechture: The Best Freemium Data Visualization Ever
Cohort Conversion Rate Over Time
I want this graph in an analytics product so badly it makes me dizzy.
Look closely until you are sure you understand the power of this visualization.
This is not the Evernote conversion rate to premium over the years they have been in business. This is the cumulative conversion rate for a group of users, as they live with the product for several years.
Read the full post at markitechture.tumblr.com
(Source: markitecht)
But I’ve seen too many people confuse detailed data with truth. You don’t know if a market opportunity exists until a real customer thinks enough of your idea to part with their scarce money or time to get it. And you don’t really know until that customer finds your idea valuable enough that they keep using it, recommend it to their friends, and purchase it again.
from Scott Anthony’s recent HBR blog post on how Innovators should use data.
—Great XtraNormal by Terry Kawaja of Luma Partners.
I love “We launched the business as the 437th ad network six months ago but have pivoted the model twice since then.”
However, iPhone4 vs HTC Evo is still my favorite XtraNormal of all time.
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