The difference between what you did, what you’re doing, and where you’re going
March 22, 2011 3:49 pm 4 CommentsThere are 3 things that are critically important to your startup. You must balance all three of these things to... View Article
Author Archives for Paul Hontz
From Freemium to Paid, to the cover of Hacker Monthly. The Bidsketch story.
March 21, 2011 3:32 pm 8 CommentsI met Ruben Gamez in Miami at the SuperConf after-party. The day before the party, Ruben gave his 2 week... View Article
Don’t yell at waitresses. You look like a jerk and it blows investments.
March 20, 2011 3:03 pm 25 Comments“$40k for 15% equity” Cooed the smooth talking angel investor. “We will take over the world together and I will... View Article
Great ideas aren’t forged in a vacuum. Remember to learn along the way.
March 19, 2011 5:47 pm 3 CommentsOften times it’s easy for me to get focused on “the next big thing” and it’s difficult to meditate on... View Article
Make your Startup ridiculously easy to write about. Put Together a Great Press Pack
March 18, 2011 3:00 pm 23 CommentsI’ve looked at close to 500 startups in the last month and a half that were looking for coverage and... View Article
Marketing Reddit: Have an Awesome Product and Tie it to a Fantastic Brand
March 17, 2011 2:49 pm 4 CommentsAlexis Ohanian, a co-founder of Reddit, sat down with me to talk about how Reddit handled it’s marketing when it... View Article
31 days, 120,000 hits, and $462 in revenue. The Startup Foundry’s story.
March 16, 2011 2:09 pm 45 CommentsIn our first month online The Startup Foundry had 120,000 page views, grew to over a thousand followers on twitter,... View Article
The first 6 months of Reddit (YC 05): “Entrepreneurship is a bipolar existence”
March 15, 2011 5:26 pm 11 CommentsA co-founder of Reddit, Alexis Ohanian, sat down with me to talk about the first six months of Reddit. We... View Article
O’Reilly: When something is commoditized, an adjacent thing becomes valuable
March 14, 2011 2:44 pm 3 CommentsSummary of the video: 1. In this video Tim talks about what “Web 2.0” means. (How he views the internet... View Article
We’re giving away $6,620 worth of goods and services to 2 Lean Startups
March 13, 2011 1:31 pm 14 CommentsWhen you’re building a lean startup, you walk a tightrope between pinching every penny that you can and making sure... View Article
