By: Jon Gilman
I disagree with comments here implying that successfully timed startups are lucky. Launching a startup is not just about what value proposition you offer customers in a vacuum, it’s about how your...
View ArticleBy: Amazon Buying Diapers; Aol Exploring Combination With Yahoo!; U.S....
[...] From his personal blog, entrepreneur Chris Dixon says that it's not always about the right product as much as its about timing when it comes to success. He points to YouTube as case-and-point and...
View ArticleBy: jon
Couldn’t agree more. Timing is everything. Ever hear of sixdegrees.com? Long before myspace and facebook, it was the first social network. My wife was one of the first employees there. Unfortunately...
View ArticleBy: Pb9
Agree to some extent but I think you a) underestimated the attractiveness of 3 key PayPal employees and b) overstate the importance of timing. In fact, YouTube figured out that story matters and thus...
View ArticleBy: chris dixon
I totally agree that stuff was critical. Timing is a necessary but not sufficient condition… you also need great execution, team etc.
View ArticleBy: chris dixon
Agree you can try to time things to some extent, but IMO there is also luck involved, especially around how fast trends happen.
View ArticleBy: Bhaskar Agarwal
you have to check various parameters all at same time..for you tube they need perfect timings to enter into the market for facebook they need proper marketing and interaction to rule over the...
View ArticleBy: Off By One # 9 | Off By One
[...] cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog / Timing your startup – Chris Dixon on how timing plays a part in the success of a startup. [...]
View ArticleBy: Martin Gogov
Chris, you say “almost” impossible (: ? In your opinion, who succeeded in such a prediction when it wasn’t fully impossible?
View ArticleBy: Martin Gogov
Chris, you say “almost” impossible (: ? In your opinion, who succeeded in such a prediction when it wasn’t fully impossible?
View ArticleBy: Ellen Malloy
We hook up the payment system of my new website system on Wednesday at 6:00p.m. and, thankfully, I believe the timing is right. My company began three years ago when we developed a website where we...
View ArticleBy: Havas Media Lab » Disruption Landscape - 11/08/2010
[...] Timing your startup – Chris Dixon [...]
View ArticleBy: David Sandusky
Some of these dotcoms around 1999,2000 where so close but just too far away. I did a CEO search for a startup called HollywoodScreenTest.com that generated a lot of interest at the time around the...
View ArticleBy: Quora
I just raised my first VC round. Should I spent money as fast as possible to increase our valuation in our next round?… Assuming this is a serious question, Chris Dixon outlined a sensible approach to...
View ArticleBy: Brett Topche
When I first started in VC in 2002, there was a bookshelf next to my desk. One of the books on there was entitled “AltaVista and the Search Revolution.” Pretty damn good lesson to have handy for a...
View ArticleBy: Marco Fisbhen
I like a pretty simple metric, regarding launching a startup: The overall startup score is simply = product x team x timing. 10 x 10 x 0 = 0 As you’ve said, there’s no point having a killer product or...
View ArticleBy: Senith @ MBA tutor
Golden advice! But wisdom and skill are needed to differentiate and stay the course. “If you are trying to ride existing trends you should ramp up aggressively. If you are betting on emerging trends it...
View ArticleBy: Waikitlau
Don’t underestimate the power of chance and randomness thrown in with virality – SNL’s Lazy Sunday was a lot of people’s first introduction to YouTube. Revver had a lot of investor press attention...
View Article
