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What Entrepreneurs Should Learn From WhatsApp

What Entrepreneurs Should Learn From WhatsApp

By Chris Yeh on February 21, 2014

Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp for $19 billion has dominated all news in Silicon Valley for the past 48 hours.  Yesterday, I was at a urinal, and a group of people asked me what I thought.  Most of the discussion seems to be around whether Mark Zuckerberg was crazy to pay so much for a relatively […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Strategy | Tagged businessmodel, facebook, google, m&a, valuation, whatsapp | 2 Responses

The Troll Economy

The Troll Economy

By Chris Yeh on August 30, 2013

Q: What do you get when journalists get paid by the number of pageviews their stories generate? A: The Troll economy. Not to sound like a grumpy old man (though I am) but what passes for journalism has sunk to a new low.  As far as I can tell, headlines are now chosen based on […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged businessinsider, businessmodel, Elon Musk, outrage, Quora, SocialMedia, steve jobs, Troll

It's Cheaper In The Long Run To Pay For A Professional

It’s Cheaper In The Long Run To Pay For A Professional

By Chris Yeh on August 20, 2013

I firmly believe in the truth of the old saying, “It’s cheaper in the long run to pay for a professional.”  It’s an axiom that applies in nearly any situation, from decide whether or not to attempt to fix your own plumbing problems, to dealing with groupies if you’re a young All-Star. Yet while most […]

Posted in Business | Tagged businessmodel, feedly, free, freemium, google, google reader, news aggregator, pricing, rss

The Mobile Gold Rush Has Just Begun

The Mobile Gold Rush Has Just Begun

By Chris Yeh on June 21, 2013

Mary Meeker is one of the few folks who was a leading figure during the first dot com boom who is still playing a similar role.  (Contrast her with Mark Andreesen, who back then was the wunderkind behind Netscape, and today is an elder statesman and VC) That’s actually a good thing, because she continues […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged businessmodel, future, Internet, Mary Meeker

Why "Enterprise SaaS" may soon be a misnomer

Why "Enterprise SaaS" may soon be a misnomer

By Chris Yeh on June 13, 2013

One of the most exciting developments to hit the enterprise software world in decades was the rise of SaaS.  Companies like Salesforce.com blazed a trail that built enormous amounts of wealth and improved the lives of end-users. Prior to SaaS, most enterprise software was sold based on perpetual licenses, to CIOs and IT departments, with […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged box, businessmodel, dropbox, hybrid cloud, saas, salesforce.com, software as a service | 1 Response

If Tumblr is worth $1.1 Billion, is Pinterest worth $19 Billion

If Tumblr is worth $1.1 Billion, is Pinterest worth $19 Billion

By Chris Yeh on May 31, 2013

My friend Adam Rifkin, who runs the awesome PandaWhale (where I get a ton of my news), recently wrote about the Tumblr acquisition for AllThingsD.  It’s a smart and well-reasoned essay, which is well worth reading. His basic argument is that Tumble is valuable because it is a massive interest graph: “Tumblr is one of […]

Posted in Business | Tagged businessmodel, Pinterest, tumblr, valuation, yahoo

The one number (45) that explains Constant Contact's success

The one number (45) that explains Constant Contact’s success

By Chris Yeh on March 6, 2013

The Business of Software Conference sounds like a phenomenal event.  I haven’t attended it, but I did recently run across one of the sessions from their 2012 conference, a talk by Gail Goodman, the CEO of Constant Contact: For those who don’t know, Constant Contact is a publicly traded online marketing company with over 500,000 […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged businessmodel, Constant Contact, saas

The Only Kind of Product That Can Pull Off Freemium

The Only Kind of Product That Can Pull Off Freemium

By Chris Yeh on August 24, 2012

The Wall Street Journal finally picks up on the freemium trend (it’s only been 2-3 years, right?) The problem is, anyone reading the article is probably under the impression that what succeeds and what doesn’t i…

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged businessmodel, dropbox, evernote, freemium, Lead generation | 1 Response

Bought vs. Sold (Why Jive is a dinosaur & Dropbox is the future)

Bought vs. Sold (Why Jive is a dinosaur & Dropbox is the future)

By Chris Yeh on September 21, 2011

Both Dropbox and Jive are successful companies that are much in the news recently. Jive just filed its S1 for its IPO, while Dropbox raised its first major round of funding at a $4 billion valuation. What’s most interesting to me is that they represent polar opposites in terms of business models. They illustrate the […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged businessmodel, dropbox, IBM, ipo, jive, microsoft, sales | 2 Responses

What If Every Developer Focused On Lifestyle Businesses?

What If Every Developer Focused On Lifestyle Businesses?

By Chris Yeh on March 22, 2011

I recently ran across this post from Justin Vincent, where he argues that entreporn–the overwhelming focus on chasing “the next big thing”–holds developers back from their full potential. Instead, he writes: “The absolute truth is that each and every one of us can build a business that can support us.” That’s bullshit. While Vincent makes […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged businessmodel, developers, hacker news, hackers, lifestyle business

To Make Money, Be A Garbageman

To Make Money, Be A Garbageman

By Chris Yeh on January 18, 2011

Plumbers and garbagemen make a good living despite their lack of PHP coding skills. That’s because they’re willing to do the necessary but unpleasant.Basic economics teaches us that prices are determined by supply and demand. Scarce skills like being …

Posted in Business | Tagged businessmodel, Economics, google, job market, success, Supply and demand | 1 Response

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What Internet Startups Can Learn From Comics And Porn Stars

By Chris Yeh on December 10, 2010

It’s no secret that media businesses have struggled with monetization in the Internet era. Journalism, for example, is famously in free-fall. But all the hand-wringing conceals a simple fact: There is a very successful model that has been around for decades, and it still works today. All we have to do is learn from porn […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged businessmodel, porn, startup | 1 Response

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