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Dissecting Yammer: A Revenue Stream is not necessarily a Business Model by Tim Marman

I mentioned that I thought Yammer had a flawed business model , and I’ve been planning on expanding on that for awhile now. I recently revisited the topic with Corey and Dan in light of a NY Times article suggesting that Twitter had popularity and Yammer...

The Innovation Bubble: Copycats and “me too” startups by Tim Marman

When I talked earlier about why it might be better to start a tech company outside of Silicon Valley , perhaps the biggest point was avoiding the echo chamber. The fact that Yammer, a Twitter clone for the enterprise, had won the TechCrunch 50 conference...

You don’t change the world with a marginally better mousetrap by Tim Marman

For those of you paying attention, Cuil , a new search engine taking aim at Google, launched with much hype. Much of that hype comes from the fact that it was founded by former Google search architect Anna Patterson and her husband, Stanford professor...

Why you SHOULDN’T start a tech company in Silicon Valley by Tim Marman

There’s been a bit of back and forth on what the best place to start a technology company is these days. The conventional wisdom these days is that the place to start and run a technology company is Silicon Valley. The key reasons put forth to justify...

Serial Entrepreneurs and High Valuations by Tim Marman

I wrote in the past that sometimes you can take too much money - doing so creates certain expectations for an exit that might not be achievable and limits your flexibility. In the context of the discussion last week, I think it's important to highlight...

Free can make you a lot of money by Tim Marman

I’ve talked a bit in the past about the economics of free , and anyone who reads TechDirt knows that Mike Masnick has long been a proponent of these “new economics”. Mike recently gave an awesome presentation at mesh08 presentation called the The Infinite...

Innovation, Disruption and The Economics of Free by Tim Marman

Hank Williams managed to stir up quite the controversy with his recent post lamenting the rise of free and blaming the VCs . His assertion is that the venture capitalists have made free, ad-supported businesses the norm and effectively "ruined it...

TheFunded brings more transparency to raising venture capital by Tim Marman

Asymmetry of information plays a major role in negotiations, and it is often said that venture capital investments are made under extreme information asymmetry. On one side of the table, the limited partners don't know much about the company, the VCs...

How do you get started raising venture capital? by Tim Marman

Alex commented on my previous post about raising too much venture capital. This is great. However, some of us are really puzzled by the whole VC process to begin with. It would be nice to get some "semi instructional" slash "story of my life" about making...

More about raising too much venture capital by Tim Marman

I recently wrote about the dangers of "taking as much as you can get" in a series A. Shortly after that, Dick Costolo wrote an absolutely amazing post about raising too much money. Nonetheless, I don’t think it makes sense for most entrepreneurs to raise...
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