Tag: Paul Graham
"The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups," documents the mistakes that startups make that doom them from the time of entering the corporate world. As usual, I like Paul Graham's startup advice, mainly because he takes pretty obvious things and puts them right in your face.
1. Single Founder
2. Bad Location
3. Marginal Niche
4. Derivative Idea
5. Obstinacy
6. Hiring Bad Programmers
7. Choosing the Wrong Platform
8. Slowness in Launching
9. Launching Too Early
10. Having No Specific User in Mind
11. Raising Too Little Money
12. Spending...
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It turns out Kiko was bought by Tucows. Kiko, the calendar company backed by Paul Graham sold for $258,100 on eBay.
Elliot Noss [President and CEO of Tucows Inc.]:
Most webmail platforms have a calendar but very few of them are ever used. It is quite simply a crappy user experience. We as users have a problem with shared calendar inside of Tucows and because we are a mixed-desktop environment we are not able to go with the expensive-frustrating-functional Exchange Server solution. At times there have been real pushes for this internally...
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Kiko, the calendar company backed by Paul Graham sells for $258,100!
In the final lap, it looks like there were about five active bidders in the final stages, the original auction was terminated by eBay.
The company recently became talk of the blogs, when the founders decided to cut their losses, and put the company on sale on eBay, Kiko’s angel round was $50,000 in convertible debt.
One of the most interesting parts of this transaction is that eBay along with all the publicity generated about the auction acted as the investment...
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A great discussion about startups, at XTech back in May. Tom Coates summarized the talk, and then he and his readers went to town critiquing and responding to it. One of the best examples of a meaty, thoughful, and informative blog discussion.
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