Comments on: Startup School 2008 http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/21/startup-school-2008/ Get Marooned Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:09:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: j2 http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/21/startup-school-2008/#comment-14419 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:24:49 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=355#comment-14419 Browntech, according to NYTimes, is advancements in fossil fuel technologies.

]]> By: mattmaroon http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/21/startup-school-2008/#comment-14418 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:56:03 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=355#comment-14418 I'm referring to the analogy about 23 mins in where he is talking about scaling, not the first one. It says on the slide (and he said aloud) $40 x 500 = $125,000. If that math is ok, I should repeat high school.

]]> By: bwitkowski http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/21/startup-school-2008/#comment-14417 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:52:53 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=355#comment-14417 The video analogy was referencing $40/month/user so I think his math was ok

]]> By: Jon Dahl http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/21/startup-school-2008/#comment-14416 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:16:06 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=355#comment-14416 Good writeup. I hadn't noticed the DHH math mistake – wonder how that made it in?

]]> By: mattmaroon http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/21/startup-school-2008/#comment-14412 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:59:02 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=355#comment-14412 Ha, hilarious.

]]> By: mattmaroon http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/21/startup-school-2008/#comment-14415 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:56:03 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=355#comment-14415 Very astute observation on the social dynamics there. We are trying very hard to tap into that viral nature. We're working on some stuff to get guys like whoever starts the league for your alumni list to do so on our site, because as you pointed out, the way it is clustered, if you get one commissioner he brings in 12 friends, maybe some of whom will play commissioner for a different group of their friends.

]]> By: Matt http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/21/startup-school-2008/#comment-14414 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:31:18 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=355#comment-14414 Good luck with figuring out how to spin a story so Deadspin will be interested. I think you can come up with something given the nature of your product.

I'm not hugely into fantasy sports, but I noticed something about how groups of users develop, that is different than most web sites. Leagues are often built around loose associations of friends. This happens because tight groups of friends aren't necessarily interested in the same sports, or aren't big enough to populate an interesting league, and because participating with people you don't know is less fun (and it risks being overrun by annoying people).

Every league I've ever played in has been put together through my fraternity alumni mailing list. I suspect most leagues are populated by similar loose associations, and if my suspicion is correct, that would say something about marketing opportunities that draftmix has that other web startups don't. Not sure exactly what it says, but it says something. Anyway, good luck with everything. Nice assessment of Startup School.

]]> By: John K http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/21/startup-school-2008/#comment-14413 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:39:43 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=355#comment-14413 Hehe. Kermit the Frog is exactly right!

]]> By: David Welton http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/21/startup-school-2008/#comment-14411 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:59:49 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=355#comment-14411 “He did have one analogy I appreciated very much though. He pointed out that a century or two ago, if you wanted to run a factory on electricity you had to generate it yourself. Nowadays making your own electricity would be ludicrous. He likened cloud computing to that, which I felt was pretty apropos.”

That's straight out of Nick Carr's book “The Big Switch”.

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