Thoughts from Mucker

-The main competitor used to have the word “telegraph” in its name -The incumbents in the industry were funded in 1910, 1934, and 1976 -The industry is an oligopoly -Customer...

  We’ve all seen or even put together a presentation that included some version of the following slide:   (FYI, I found these slides on slideshare, I’m not commenting at...

Creating a liquid and vibrant marketplace is already hard enough; fine tuning a business model, and eventually getting paid for the value that has been created by the marketplace is...

Erik happened to be on vaca so they ended up having to interview the looser canon on the team. I hope I didn’t say anything stupid 🙂 More on Inside...

At some point in the life cycle of any successful company, it will have to abandon what made it successful in the first place. In the search for growth, the...

1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company” (Internet) 1996 – “It’s impossible to get...

A little more than one year ago, Marc Andreessen wrote a seminal piece which has defined venture investing and entrepreneurship since. The global trend for software powered innovations to permanently...

This is a guest post from my partner, erik rannala thats originally published on Techcrunch. Much has been written about the Series A crunch that is facing entrepreneurs and their...

A better edited version was posted by Michael Carney (thanks Michael!) @ pando daily. Go read that one instead! ************ In the past 30 days I’ve had sad and unfortunate...

I love the lean startup ethos and methodology. It is by far the best thing that has happened to the startup community since the onset of the internet-fuel renaissance in...