Greg Biggers

http://bigs.ly/FDA-LDT-2010-July-Day1

If we were to start over today, would we build our product (or company or problem statement) the same way we had so far?

His bias #3, 'Solving the wrong problem' is a particularly good (bad) one that we need to watch out for at Genomera.

Ben Horowitz writes about the dangers of following a super-successful startup with an immediate next swing-of-the-bat. Signs of impending failure include premature focus on monetization, fixing or avoiding mistakes from the last company, and dismissing the details. He calls this Second Startup Syndrome.

But my favorite observation of Ben's is the presence of founder anxiety as evidence of fighting the good fight. Nice pattern recognition. Both Ben and Marc are so good at recognizing, labeling and expositing patterns (Which is why I'd hire either one of them as a product manager any day).

However, I am baffled as to why Ben's blog requires Flash just to display headlines and section headers. What is up with that? Among other problems, it discourages sharing, since one cannot right-click to copy a link in order to paste into twitter, email, facebook, etc.

You don't even need html5 for that!

RT @rands: It's not who you know, it's how you treat them.

SOOO tired of the hire-a-rockstar meme. #vator #vatorsplash

@bigs What about Twitter ninjas? I'm fine with rock stars and ninjas as long as the costume's part of the job description.

@markvalvarez Ninja connotes skill, specialty, not call undue attn to oneself. Rockstar= show-y, egotistical, hard to work with. #vator

 

Greg Biggers

 Protean Multipreneur, Startup Advisor, Trouble Maker

 Incubating Genomera-- advanced personal genomics company

Using principles from the Customer Development and Lean Startup (#LeanStartup) movements

Sailing a Santana 22 on SF Bay