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As you probably saw Amazon acquired shoe e-tailer Zappos last week in a mostly stock deal worth around $900m. It was a very interesting deal for a number of reasons – the big ticket price, the cash to founders and employees, Zappos’ unique culture, and Amazon’s stated intention to keep the [...] Image via CrunchBase At DFJ Esprit some of our biggest successes have come from cash out deals where the founders have taken some money off the table at the same time as we have invested to fund growth. It worked very well for us at BuyAt and more recently [...] On the way in this morning I was thinking about Apple’s rejection of the Google Voice iPhone application, whether they will approve Spotify’s app (I really hope so), what it all means for the ecosystem and whether I should write a blog post on the topic. Then I saw the following on [...] This chart was posted on O’Reilly last week. Also of interest is that only 22% of all apps in the US iTunes store are free. I suspect this percentage will rise. I haven’t written much about Enterprise 2.0 recently, perhaps because the slow rate of adoption has stemmed the flow of interesting startups in this area, but I remain convinced that it’s time will come. That conviction was strengthened this morning when reading the chapter on the economics of abundance in Anderson’s Free. Early in [...]
Having an attractive free offering and building a large non-paying user base as first steps to building a large paying user base is a theme that has been running through a number of Fred Wilson’s posts recently – and so it was again at the weekend when he wrote Monetize The [...] Published a new post: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-19 http://cli.gs/zXb5V # great FT post on re-inventing strategy for the current climate http://bit.ly/SvENA # great FT article from @tim on the how to use Twitter for marketing purposes http://bit.ly/Xnvn3 # Published a new post: Does operational experience help a VC? http://cli.gs/Uv52y # Published a [...]
Reading Chris Anderson’s Free today I came across the following quote from social scientist Herbert Simon: In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its [...] Yesterday Brad Feld quoted Jeffrey Kalmikoff of Threadless saying the following on Techstars: give me your pitch, but give it to me as if you are giving it to your best friend and I liked it so much I had to repeat it here. I like it both because that’s how I like to [...] I am a big believer that in the long run open always wins out over closed, and that is an argument which at the theoretical level that rarely gets much pushback these days. At the practical level it is often different though, and Mike Masnick has a good post up on Techdirt that goes [...] |
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