Here’s a really fun interview I did with Rob Woodbridge from untether.tv; released today. Enjoy! Full interview here: http://untether.tv/2014/wearables-solving-measuring-backtrack-co-founder-alex-danco/ Audio: https://soundcloud.com/untether/why-wearables-should-be-about-what-you-solving-not-what-you-are-measuring-with-alex-danco
Hey everyone! It’s a big day here at Backtrack, as our first product- the world’s first shape-based, wearable activity monitor for movement, rehab, and recovery- is officially live on Kickstarter.… Read more Our Kickstarter campaign is live! →
Company culture seems to be in vogue over the past few weeks. For some reason, culture has been showing up on Twitter, in discussions, all over. I’m sure this is in part due to the two recent lectures in Sam Altman’s startup class that talk about company culture and team building: http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec10/ http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec11/ Great stuff in these two lectures from Alfred Lin of Zappos, Brian Chesky of Airbnb, Patrick and John Collison of Stripe, and Ben Silbermann of Pinterest. Worth the watch, as of course have been all of the… Read more A quick thought on company culture. →
Today, we’re going to talk about one of the most insightful quotes in the history of the Internet: “There’s only two ways I know of to make money: bundling and unbundling.” –Jim Barksdale, CEO of Netscape In the history of the internet, many (really, all) of the big leaps forward in how we use and interact with the internet have been instances of either bundling services at a particular layer of the stack, or unbundling them from that layer. For a primer on bundling and unbundling, and how important this… Read more Bundling, unbundling, and the future of health care innovation →
Let’s talk about one of the big underlying problems with back pain, rehab and recovery, and put on our Planet Money caps so we can talk a bit about the… Read more Rehab economics →
From Lecture 9, where Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, and Parker Conrad from Zenefits talk about how to raise money. Full of good stuff, but my favourite line was from Parker, about his first attempts at fundraising and what he learned: (Annotated text from Genius) “I started a company before this that I was at for six years, and my co-founder and I pitched almost every VC firm in Silicon Valley. We literally went to sixty different firms and they all told us no. And we were constantly trying to figure… Read more Be the Twitter Guys: More gold from Sam Altman’s startup class →
I’m sure most of you are familiar with Paul Graham’s well known essay, How to get startup ideas. If not, go read it. The main thesis is: The way to… Read more Theatres of the absurd: how to get startup ideas →
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