If you’re interested in social media and aren’t already a subscriber to Andrew Chen’s blog, you should be. Today’s post is just one example of why: a companion post to his earlier analysis of user cohort segmentation, Andrew lays out a mathematical model for viral user adoption and attrition over time that makes it painfully continue…
One of my earliest (and most viewed) posts was this one on Google / Blackberry integration. At the time, I said that the only missing piece was integration with Google contacts. Well, according to this article on Read/Write Web, contacts integration is on the way. Per the Contacts API site, Google hasn’t yet shipped the continue…
As most readers of this blog know, I’m a big fan of Warren Buffet’s partner Charlie Munger, but as a startup investor I follow Fred Wilson just as closely. I just read this Fred Wilson post and I swear Fred was channeling Charlie when he wrote it. If you don’t want to click through and continue…
A while back I posted about some counterintuitive trends in digital media. My example then was Colligent’s success at selling tools and analytics to support a new model of marketing for the digital music industry. Today’s example is even more surprising: despite growing inventories, increasingly transparent (and competitive) markets and frictionless online purchasing, prices in continue…
Q: What do you think of the following comment (last paragraph of #12)?http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/26/yelp-raises-15-million-fourth-round-valuation-200-million/#comment-2007944 Posted by Ben R A: Hey Ben, thanks for the question (and for those who don’t have the patience to click through, here’s the paragraph in question): “Local interest websites are always non-viral, because they operate in the disjoint “internets” of each continue…
Q: When I signed up for Askablogr I elected not to have the Q&A post to my blog. Now I think I might want it to. How do I change that? Posted by kr8tr A: Hi Rob, you’re not the first person who’s wanted to make this switch (I hope it means you’re enjoying the continue…
Q: Are you planning on implementing feeds (RSS, Atom) for the questions and answers Askablogr site? Posted by aafromaa A: Hi Anne, and ouch, you hit a sore spot there. Craig and I have had RSS feeds on the Askablogr feature list since our earliest release, but it keeps getting pushed down the list. With continue…
This article in Wednesday’s New York Times caught my eye. The theme is ‘coworking’: “where someone sets up an office and rents out desks, creating a community of people who have different jobs but who want to share ideas.” We didn’t know we were in on a national trend, but this is what Andy and continue…
Q: Howdy – maybee you can help me:my Name is pierro and im from germany.Whats wrong – i can login me in my gmail account with all browsers,but FLOCK dont works.. Posted by Pierro Marie A: Hi Pierro, thanks for the question and welcome to Askablogr! If I understand your question, you can access your continue…
Q: Chris, as an entrepreneur, how do you balance the need for a general state of dissatisfaction and the need to celebrate victories as they come? Posted by rpathak A: Hi Rahul, thanks for the great question (and apologies for the delay in responding – just operator error, as far as I can tell). My continue…