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Simultaneous Discovery and its impact on stealth mode

We’ve talked a lot about the anti-stealth movement here and on the nextNY list, and the topic has resurfaced again recently thanks to Brad Burnham’s post about the advantages of being open . I noticed that, at least anecdotally, there was a correlation between how open entrepreneurs were...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 06-08-2008
Innovation, Disruption and The Economics of Free

Hank Williams managed to stir up quite the controversy with his recent post lamenting the rise of free and blaming the VCs . His assertion is that the venture capitalists have made free, ad-supported businesses the norm and effectively "ruined it for everyone else" (my words). I believe it...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-08-2008
Getting the first penny

Josh Kopelman says the first penny is the hardest . The truth is, scaling from $5 to $50 million is not the toughest part of a new venture - it’s getting your users to pay you anything at all . The biggest gap in any venture is that between a service that is free and one that costs a penny. (emphasis...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-05-2007

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