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@letmydatago
This is a grim fairy tale about a mythical company and its mythical founder. While I concocted this story, I did so by drawing upon my sixteen years of experience as a venture capitalist, plus the fourteen years I spent before that as an entrepreneur. I’m going to use some pretty simple math and...
The cautionary tale about startup founders and those who come calling with money...
RIP Dr. Dobb’s (38 of unprofitability) Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia was one of the first magazines I bought as a teenager.
If we hosted a local campaign finance awards show...
If we hosted a local campaign finance awards show…
I volunteered this last campaign season with OpenOakland‘s OpenDisclosure project, sharing data and making sense of politics and money in Oakland, California. In honor of our NorCal OpenDisclosure Summit last Saturday, what would it be like to host an OpenDisclosure awards show?
On the fundraising side…
Sweepstakes: Most Money Overall
Efficiency: Most Money From Fewest Contributors
Everyman: Most…
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Overv.io's artful data portability pledge
Overv.io’s artful data portability pledge
From Overv.io‘s home page:
No strings attached
We store all critical information on GitHub
These are your projects. You get to keep your data and we can’t lose it even if our servers get mauled by a grizzly bear.
No commitment required
You are free to only move a part of your team to overv.io. People who hate progress can just keep using GitHub directly. Everyone else gets to keep using their…
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Why Kevin Didn't Open Source His Failed Startup
Why Kevin Didn’t Open Source His Failed Startup
Kevin Menard wound down his Mogotest service after five years. He wrote a thoughtful explanation of why he did’t release his code into the wild under an open source license. It came down to a few things.
IP. Untangling third-party code to clear licenses was a big job.
Privacy promises. Some customer data had been hard-coded and would need to be discovered and removed.
Cost. Nobody was willing…
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OpenCalifornia's OpenDisclosure Summit on Saturday in Oakland #oakmtg
OpenCalifornia’s OpenDisclosure Summit on Saturday in Oakland #oakmtg
I’m working this Saturday at Oakland City Hall with friends from San Jose, Sacramento, San Francisco and Oakland. It’s our first time together. We’re figuring out what we want campaign finance apps like OpenDisclosure to evolve into. How can we make boring accounting data meaningful, entertaining, and active? How can we reach more of California’s voters? Can we turn contribution envelopes and…
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RIP Resolver Systems
“Remember us.” Tombstone pages stay behind after your product or company is gone. Here’s a simple, effective one from the gang at Resolver Systems Ltd..
Resolver’s tombstone does a few things well:
Clear headline
Logo to confirm you’re in the right place
Dates
What happened and why
What you can do if you want to contact someone or get support
Tombstones are briefer and less biographical than…
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Reworking the #ProdMgmt Manifesto
Reworking the #ProdMgmt Manifesto
Brian Lawley, CEO & Founder, 280 Group LLC, wrote the awesome Product Management Manifesto in November 2014: This is a page to critique it, line by line….
I am a Product Management professional.
“I am” vs. “We are”. Isolated from the start.
More of a “pledge” than a “manifesto”. A manifesto is a list of harsh truths, an agenda, a call for action. This is more an HR a-day-in-the-life job…
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Reworking the #ProdMgmt Manifesto
Reworking the #ProdMgmt Manifesto
Brian Lawley, CEO & Founder, 280 Group LLC, wrote the awesome Product Management Manifesto in November 2014: This is a page to critique it, line by line….
I am a Product Management professional.
“I am” vs. “We are”. Isolated from the start.
More of a “pledge” than a “manifesto”. A manifesto is a list of harsh truths, an agenda, a call for action. This is more an HR a-day-in-the-life job…
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RIP Netflix Public API #PlatformImmaturityAntipattern
Well, they said they would two years’ ago and now they’ve done it. Netflix Kills Off Its Public API, Takes A Few Applications Down With It (TechCrunch). This is the Platform Immaturity Anti-pattern:
Startups launch public APIs, promising an open platform, hoping for industry endorsement, offering partners the chance for shared success.
The company and their business ecosystem grows and…
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I want you to imagine someone for me. Her name is Jessica and she is 17 years old. She lives in a two bedroom apartment with her mother and uses an old laptop she got from one of her mom’s ex boyfriends. With it, she browses the portals that serve as her connection to the community constructed...
Love Taylor Swift on Security's call for designing software security for the least technical, least educated, least adult, least security-aware of us.
RIP LinkedIn InMaps: LinkedIn Is Quietly Retiring Network Visualization Tool InMaps | TechCrunch. Too quietly. LinkedIn won't say what went wrong with InMaps.
Metrics for Over The Top Telcos: From Nodes to Flows
Metrics for Over The Top Telcos: From Nodes to Flows
Monthly active users is a good proxy for census. Tencent’s been doing something like that quarterly for years, the number of people who signed in to QQ in the last n weeks of the quarter (I think six, if I recall).
So this tells you the number of nodes that might light up.
You also want to know how much those nodes are available for conversation. For instance, early Skype didn’t have any way to…
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Aereo: a Graceful Pause (While The Fight Continues)
Aereo: a Graceful Pause (While The Fight Continues)
Staying legal is a strong reason to change course. Aereo, smarting from a painful SCOTUS ruling, chose one path short of shutting: the graceful pause.
Here’s Aereo CEO and founder Chet Canoja in a blog post from the day the Supreme Court ruling came down. Listen for his tone, the crisp actionable information, and discussion of the path forward.
A Letter to Our Consumers: Standing Together for…
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76 Startup Failure Post-Mortems
76 Startup Failure Post-Mortems
76 Startup Failure Post-Mortems compiles anguish, human frailty, strategic weakness, miscalculation, unfortunate timing, gambling, loyalty and betrayal, despair, and relief. These founders pick through their failures for meaning. I’ll probe for action items to include in our Graceful Exit handbook.
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RIP Qplay: One Week Notice; Refunds for the Quick;
RIP Qplay: One Week Notice; Refunds for the Quick;
Qplay shut down.
The good:
Wide notice on the web site.
Clear language for setting expectations.
Refunds offered.
Bonus: tool to help you find a place to recycle your electronics
Bonus: “sad” logo
The bad:
No download or export of your viewing history, account history, sharing activity, etc.
No explanation for why the business is shutting down.
No personal notes from staff or founders.…
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Product management wins hackathons
Product management wins hackathons
Product managed a StartupWeekend team in Oakland. We won Best Business Model and were second overall for CourtDate, an app that reminds young people of upcoming court appointments. “Keep kids out of jail one text at a time.” It looks like our project will continue, perhaps incubating out of OpenOakland.
We are building on the Baltimore Effect where a phone call three days before a court date…
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