Andrew Chen

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Jun 5, 2012	Facebook flop means hard times ahead for startups — Y Combinator’s Paul Graham is worried	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Paul Graham is the genius behind Y Combinator, on...
Jun 5, 2012	Facebook flop means hard times ahead for startups — Y Combinator’s Paul Graham is worried	Paul Graham is the genius behind Y Combinator, one of the first startup incubators and the birthplace of immediately recognizable companies such as Reddit, Scribd, Disqus, Dropbox, Posterous, and many, many more. So if he gets worried, peop...
May 28, 2012	Never take your eyes off this hacker metric	The Tao of DAU and MAU If you’re like me, you’ve had enough of the Facebook IPO story. For tech entrepreneurs struggling to build stuff, the cacophony of recent press is just more noise. That’s why when my friend Andrew Chen posted an insig...
May 26, 2012	Never Take Your Eyes Off This Hacker Metric	Editor’s Note: Nir Eyal is the founder of two acquired startups and an advisor to several Bay Area companies and incubators. Nir blogs about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business at NirAndFar.com. Follow him on Twitter @n...
May 7, 2012	Startup vet Tony Wright to set sail for Silicon Valley: Entrepreneur says good deal terms hard to find in Seattle	GeekWire's John Cook interviews entrepreneur Tony Wright at last year's Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards Tony Wright — a well-respected Seattle entrepreneur who previously co-founded CubeDuel and RescueTime and sold his first company to Jobster —...
Apr 20, 2012	Dueling apps: CityHall app rivals Philly311, CityEats challenges OpenTable [LINKS]	Tech Life: OpenTable’s rival to launch here [Philly.com] “What distinguishes CityEats from OpenTable? Truth to tell, far less than what they share — except, of course, that CityEats went live here this week with about 30 restaurants and Ope...
Apr 15, 2012	Stop Looking For A Technical Co-founder	Editor’s Note: Alexey Komissarouk is a CS senior at the University of Pennsylvania and founder of the PennApps Hackathon. This article is based on an earlier talk to the Wharton MBA Entrepreneurship Club. “How many of you want to start a co...
Apr 13, 2012	The Other Sinister Plot At Groupon	Editor’s note: Surya Yalamanchili was previously a brand manager at Procter & Gamble and has worked at LinkedIn and Groupon. Follow him on Twitter @suryasays. I love Silicon Valley. Love almost everything about the technology ecosystem....
Jan 8, 2012	Facebook Adds In-Game Offers Option For All Developers, Hoping To Further Diversify Revenue	Facebook has just started letting any developer on its platform run advertising offers that pay out directly in the native currency of their games. Let’s say you’re playing Ravenskye City, a new simulation-exploration game from Lolapps, and...
May 3, 2011	What’s your secret sauce? A guide to measuring startup success	Bonanza's Alex Berg Guest Commentary: At a startup, measuring everything is like prioritizing everything. It’s impossible, frustrating, and a recipe for failure. Instead of chasing every measurable aspect of your business, pause, narrow you...
Jun 2, 2010	Analytics for Your Startup: Building the Right Metrics	At Techcrunch Disrupt last week, ComScore announced the “Start-up, Step-up” program to make their web analytics more accessible to new and small businesses. While ComScore formerly charged a substantial setup fee for the implementation of t...
Nov 23, 2009	Do Seattle Startups Care Too Much About Retail, Too Little About Building a Huge Audience?	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Oh no you didn’t. Come on, Andrew Chen, you know better than to call out Seattle tech startups for not producing a world-changing consumer Internet company in the past few yea...
May 13, 2009	Solving the problems of early stage me-too product startups	[Editor’s note: A lot of web startups we talk to these days seem very similar to a lot of other web startups we talk to — from social networks to Firefox plugins to micro-messaging services to a long list of others. We want to cover compani...
May 2, 2009	How To Grow Your Blog Through Customer Development	This is a guest post by Neil Patel, co-founder of KISSmetrics and blogger at QuickSprout.com. He also does consulting work for a number of major Internet properties, including TechCrunch. When you think about growing your blog, whether it i...
Apr 17, 2009	The future of social-payment platforms	It will take some time before advertisers figure out what leads are really worth Inside Facebook reports 35% quarter on quarter growth for social media payment provider platforms. Incentives social network offer platforms such as Offerpal, ...
Apr 15, 2009	Roundup: MySpace history, Silicon Valley gloom, and more	Here’s the latest action: How Google overpaid for weak advertising inventory on MySpace — Entrepreneur Andrew Chen has published a tell-all blog post about his early years working at ad network Revenue Science, where he did formative deals ...
Apr 1, 2009	Super Rewards brings its offer-based virtual currency to the web (what’s it worth?)	Super Rewards is expanding its virtual currency from social networking applications to the entire web today. So far, this currency has been a good way to make money for social networking applications like Mob Wars (pictured) — some apps are...
Mar 11, 2009	Gambit helps game developers make more real money from virtual goods	Virtual goods are becoming a staple method for casual game developers to make money from their users — and a range of third parties are offering services to help them do so. The latest is Gambit. Developed by a three-man team that started o...
Feb 6, 2009	Three fremium strategies	You can reach for all scale of a free service, and still make money I'm excited to see so much attention being paid to freemium businesses lately. These are companies that generate revenue by offering a free product with an upsell or premiu...
Dec 29, 2008	Does the internet have to go down for knowledge workers to take a guilt-free vacation?	Yesterday, major websites across the US slowed to a crawl when Level 3 Communications, which operates one of the largest internet backbones in the world, experienced technical difficulties. For knowledge workers, losing internet access is a...
Nov 11, 2008	Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn?) employee stock sale begins	Christmas may come a little early for Facebook employees who own stock in their company. This summer, we learned the social network was planning a unique method of keeping talented employees happy before a surely-distant initial public offe...
Nov 5, 2008	Roundup: FCC opens airwaves, Google slows hiring and more	Here’s the latest action (aside from a certain election): FCC agrees to open up the airwaves — A section of the radio spectrum known as white space has been set aside for public use, a move pushed for by tech companies like Google and Micro...
Oct 16, 2008	Kaixin001: China's Apple of Social Networks	Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Alan Rutledge, who formerly worked as a developer for Idealab, the startup incubator behind Google Picasa and Yahoo Overture. Kaixin001, the latest newcomer to the Facebook clone wars in China, ...
Sep 3, 2008	Offerpal launches game monetization service for MySpace, responds to criticism	The young but growing world of social networking games is getting increasingly sophisticated — and on MySpace, not just Facebook. Offerpal Media, a company that provides ad-supported incentives for gaming applications, is launching a “manag...

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