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Top Hat Posts
- Google Open Social vs. Facebook Platform (aka: Open Standards are for Losers... er, Underdogs)
- Facebook Big Pimpin': Using Social Networks & Platforms to Drive Distribution
- Startup Metrics for Pirates: AARRR! (Startonomics SF 2008)
- Startup Metrics: Sample User Conversion Dashboard
- Startup Metrics: Example Marketing Channels
- Startup Metrics: The 1-Page Business Model
- Successful Developer Platforms Have 3 Things: Features, Users, Money.
- Memo to GOOG/YHOO/MSFT/AOL: How to Turn 500M email logins into Facebook Platform & Crapload of Revenue
- Resumes are for Sh*t. The 4 Things You Really Need.
- Fear is the Mind Killer of the Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
- Web 3.0 = Hailstorm 2.0 & How MSFT-YHOO could beat GOOG
- Business Models for Social Networks
- Facebook's #1 Problem
- Publishing 2.0, Part II!
- Publishing 2.0 -- it's not what you think.
- Middle America vs Silicon Valley, OpenID, & Single Sign-on
- Top 5 reasons PR doesn't work (for Geeks)
- VCs & Tech Lawyers: INNOVATE, AUTOMATE, SIMPLIFY.
- 1000 Startup Flowers in Continuous Bloom = Destruction of VC
- The Zen of Poke: A Facebook Story
- Creating Engaging & Viral Facebook Apps (Stanford / BayCHI video, 12/07)
- 7 Steps to Your Facebook Strategy (TechCrunch)
- The Other World-Dominating Platform: Google Analytics
- User Engagement: Depth, not a Breadth, metric
- Facebook isn't AOL; it's Visual Basic.
- Facebook Ads Suck? Nope, CPM Sucks.
- Designing for the "3rd & 4th browsers" (Search & Social Media)
Recent Posts
- The Fail Factory
- Blogging Hiatus
- Thoughts on Angel List, "Social Proof", "Spray & Pray", & The Network Effects of Large Scale Investing
- Startups to Customers: "I Wanna FIGHT Your Father." (Father = Incumbent Solution)
- Global IP Address Growth by Country
- This ain't Technology... it's MAGIC. (Word Lens by QuestVisual)
- Hey, You... *Watch* This Shit. NOW.
- How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. (aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network)
- life lessons, by jack handey... er, Dorsey.
- GeeksOnaPlane East Asia 2010: Startups Are Global. You Should Be Too.
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December 2011
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Where I'm At:
Microfinance
- 500 Hats: Securitizing Happiness (slides)
- 500 Hats: Microfinance & Social Entrepreneurship (Index)
- 500 Hats: MicroEquity = Micro Venture Capital?
- 500 Hats: Securitization Examples for Social Entrepreneurship
- Securitizing Happiness: Making Trillion-Dollar Markets for Individuals, Small Business, & Natural Resources
- NextBillion.Net
- Microfinance - The MIX Market
- Unitus. Innovative Financial Solutions to Global Poverty
- The Silicon Valley Microfinance Network (SVMN.net)
- Kiva.org - Loans that change lives
