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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Airbnb’s availability as a marketplace and its aggregation of substantial consumer demand has actually meant certain forms of lodging have been newly built or converted into rooms for the primary purpose of listing on Airbnb.

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Second Startups: Why Founders Often Struggle to Find Their Second Act

View from Seed

The last time they were starting a company at the raw, pre-product/market fit stage may have been quite a few years ago. The context of starting business may have changed, and some of the tools and practices (especially around early product development and go-to-market) might look very different.

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Beauty On Demand

YoungUpstarts

Serial entrepreneur Samar Singla is the founder of Click Labs , a technology solution provider with 5+ years of industry experience in developing enterprise grade solutions with focus on mobility. Click Labs excels in product development outsourcing in general and building On Demand platforms in particular.

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How We Fooled Ourselves into Delaying Our Startup’s Launch

viniciusvacanti.com

The bright side is that, 6 months later, when we iterated Yipit into a daily deal aggregator, we learned to ignore the excuses and released a prototype in 3 days that took off right away. After we re-launched as a daily deal aggregator, we got exactly one email from a user saying they missed the sample sales. That’s it.

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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” ” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC.

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Conversion: The Most Important Internet Metric of All (Revisited)

abovethecrowd.com

Unfortunately, conversion improvements typically are the aggregate gain of 100 tiny improvements, not one silver bullet. The product is designed with a clear understanding that optimization is about experimentation, and it greatly lowers the cost and complexity of that experimentation.

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Lessons From Leaders

SVPG

I have literally hundreds that I've aggregated and curated. You can see from the list above that I am spending a lot of time lately on product vision, and on testing techniques. I also have favorite quotes around portfolio management, product development, process, optimization, roles and leadership.