Lately there’s been a large buzz around the coolness of “Failure”. As cliché as as it may be, there is truth to finding success from failure. Recently, hundreds of people attended a full conference dedicated to the subject. FAILcon (http://). The conference’s focus was on the ability to quick learn from failure, recover, and iterate. [...]
Today at Y Combinator’s Startup School, (http://startupschool NULL.org/) Chris Anderson from Wired gave a fascinating presentation on leveraging Business Models (a great Techcrunch summary is available here (http://www NULL.techcrunch NULL.com/2009/10/24/startup-school-wired-editor-chris-anderson-on-freemium-business-models/)). With economic times being as challenging as they are, the allure of leveraging “a free service” to build users makes sense. “Freemium” gets people using [...]
When entrepreneurs come up with an idea- revenue plans are rarely the first thing that come to mind. After all, asking “how do we solve this incredibly painful business issue” can be a lot more exciting then “how are we going to monetize this”. Since the first dot-com-boom, several models for revenue have come, some [...]