Forrst: Where Designers Who Code meet Developers Who Design | Carsonified
Our very own Kyle has a cool new community for hackers and designers who actually build stuff. If you’re someone like that, ask him for an invite (or ask me and I’ll pass it along).
Come join an already awesome group of developers and designers. If you’d like an invite, just ask!
Ted Roden: Introducing Hairball -
I frequently want to make web posts of a very nerdy variety (yes, nerdier than the stuff I post already). However, I know that most of my tumblr friends are probably not that interested in that type of thing. So I’ve decided to put it off in its own silo at ted-is-a-nerd.tumblr.com. It will auto…
Nice work Ted!
How do I make this stuff stay hidden for good?
psql:
Oh here is an Acorn. It’s for Forrst.
Live train location map at the Bedford Ave L stop. I love this so much!
Yes, when it’s actually turned on!
A couple of days ago, I had a phone call with a partner of an early stage VC firm whose portfolio is filled with successful startups you’ve heard of. Halfway through our conversation, they told me: “We only invest in companies that believe they can be worth $1 billion dollars. If you think you’d be happy with $50-100 million, you’re not the right company for us. The companies we invest in generate $100,000 per month in revenue within 6-12 months of launch, and $1 million per month in revenue by 1 year after that. How do you plan to do that?”
What?
I was shocked. I can’t think of a single non-ecommerce startup that can boast $100k in monthly revenues within 6-12 months of launch AND were creating a new market. Not Google. Not Facebook. Not Twitter. Not Yahoo. Maybe Apple? Microsoft?
As Steve Blank so eloquently says, when you are creating a new market, you have no idea how long the flat part of the hockey stick really is. That’s because you are creating a new product that people don’t even know they want, because they’ve never seen anything like it before. And you are creating something based on a mountain of assumptions, because you don’t know what people will want once they know they want something.
This is all to say, choose your investors wisely.
(NB — This partner, by the way, has never started their own company or worked at a startup.)
Another excellent read by Dave. Always interesting when you’re dealing with people in your industry who have never really been “in the trenches”.
Into The Forrst: The Forrst app contest! -
If you’re already on Forrst, a couple of your fellow Forrst members have organized an unofficial official Forrst App Contest; starting tomorrow (2/24), and running through next Wednesday (3/3), your job is to build the neatest app possible in a week’s time. At the end of the contest, the…
This is neat. You should sign up and make yourself an app.
Listen to him. It starts today.
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The neatest new Tumblr blog of all time
Dreamweaver: Hey Dreamweaver team, in case you were wondering why you had become completely irrelevant
Thanks Dan
