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Dylan Tweney: Why Instagram is worth $1 billion, and your startup isn’t (VentureBeat)
Dylan Tweney: Why Instagram is worth $1 billion, and your startup isn’t (VentureBeat)
Instagram succeeded for many good reasons, including its design, its viral qualities, its simplicity, and the fact that its engineers focused so obsessively on making sure that it works all the time. Part of its success, no doubt, is the fact that it was just in the right place, at the right time, with the right, crowd-pleasing mix of features.
·venturebeat.com·
Dylan Tweney: Why Instagram is worth $1 billion, and your startup isn’t (VentureBeat)
Anil Dash: Funding a Startup Without VC
Anil Dash: Funding a Startup Without VC
“I love entrepreneurship, and I love tech startups, but sometimes I'm struck by the lack of perspective that many tech entrepreneurs have about creating a startup. One of the most common things that entrepreneurs in the tech sector lose sight of is that most companies never get venture capital funding, especially outside of the technology world. That's not to say that VC hasn't played an important rule in the growth of many of the biggest and best companies, sites and apps. It's just not the only option.”
·dashes.com·
Anil Dash: Funding a Startup Without VC
Andre Torrez: an empathetic plan
Andre Torrez: an empathetic plan
“Complain about the way other people make software by making software.” … “Worse is when the people doing the complaining also make software or web sites or iPhone applications themselves. As visible leaders of the web, I think there are a lot of folks who could do a favor to younger, less experienced people by setting an example of critiquing to raise up rather than critiquing to tear down.”
·notes.torrez.org·
Andre Torrez: an empathetic plan
Blogging Persai
Blogging Persai
Persai is the Web 2.0 app of the guys who write Uncov. They've been pre-blogging the app for months now. I'm not sure how many people are reading this because I've seen zero mention of it anywhere, but it's a nice model to follow anyway.
·blog.persai.com·
Blogging Persai