Subscribe
About Simeon Simeonov
Events
Get invited to events I am organizing or speaking at.
Top Rated
-
Latest Content
- Apache Spark native functions
- Unicorn pressures and startup failures
- Advertising marketplace design
- Angel investing strategies
- JSON and JSONlines from the command line
- My most favorite math proof ever
- Monitoring Redis with MONITOR and WireShark
- Google and the ecosystem test
- Anatomy of an online ad
- Startup anti-pattern: platform risk
@simeons on Twitter
- The NSA's perspective on the future of war and privacy: nytimes.com/2019/09/10/opi… … #cyberwar #privacy 1 month ago
- RT @glennsolomon: Per @stewart - ‘96 was the year everyone had a computer and it took 5 years for email to become ubiquitous; @SlackHQ allo… 3 months ago
- The Role of Anonymity in Privacy bit.ly/2NFLzDq https://t.co/wz6kgzsEma 3 months ago
- RT @d3r1v3d: @simeons Just wanted to thank you for making spark-records open-source. Your team's work has truly been an inspiration for min… 3 months ago
- . @Bill_Gross and I just calculated that the IRR is about 303%. Pretty good. :) twitter.com/Bill_Gross/sta… 4 months ago
- ack09
- Adobe
- Advertising
- AJAX
- amazon web services
- angel investing
- Apple
- Automattic
- AWS
- B2C
- Better Advertising
- Blogging
- bootstrapping
- Broadband
- Bubble 2.0
- business
- cloud computing
- customer development
- Digital Media
- e-commerce
- entrepreneurship
- FastIgnite
- Flex
- founder agreements
- FutureOfWebApps-SF06
- Geotagging
- IE7
- Industry News
- iPhone
- lean startup
- Life
- Long Tail
- Macromedia Flash
- marketing
- Metcalfe's Law
- Microsoft
- Microsoft Office 2007
- MIT 100K
- Mobile
- MySpace
- Nantucket Conference
- network effect
- Office 2007
- OpenOffice
- opensource
- Plinky
- Polaris Venture Partners
- privacy
- Ruby
- Ruby/Rails
- SaaS
- Security
- Shopximity
- Social Advertising
- Social Commerce
- Social computing
- social media
- social networking
- startup anti-patterns
- startups
- Swoop
- technology
- TechStars
- The Long Tail
- Thing Labs
- VC
- Venture Capital
- virtual worlds
- Web 2.0
- Weblogs
- Web Services
- Windows Vista
- WordPress
Tag Archives: customer development
Eric Ries interview about lean startups
Lean startup meme inventor Eric Ries is in town. He will be at the Lean Startup Circle event on Thursday night. If you are lucky-enough to have gotten a ticket for this, either hold it tight or sell it on … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged CSN Stores, customer development, Eric Ries, event, lean startup
1 Comment
The Startup Holy Trinity
My last post was about agile ideologies, the practice of suspending disbelief and trying something without too much thinking or tweaking for long-enough to collect quality data but not long-enough to go native and lose perspective. A great starting point … Continue reading
Agile ideology in startups
I am not a fan of ideologies. Inflexibility of thinking or the ability to take reality into account rarely leads to great outcomes. Just look at history. Methodologies, on the other hand, I like. The difference between the two is in … Continue reading
Posted in Life, startups
Tagged agile, agile ideology, Bob Dorf, customer development, FutureM, General Catalyst, lean startup, Life, startups
9 Comments
Finding the best startup customers
Phil Libin (@plibin, CEO of Evernote), Alexei Erchak (CEO of Luminous Devices) and I did a session with the Boston chapter of the Founder Institute last night. Towards the end of the program we listened to several startup pitches. Every … Continue reading
Picking the ideal market size for a startup
There may be some argument about this but I’ve read in a number of places that the fastest high-tech company to reach $1B in revenue was BEA Systems. How did they do it? They got big backers: a private equity … Continue reading
Posted in startups
Tagged customer development, entrepreneurship, lean startup, marketing, startups
1 Comment
