http://www.ezran.org/blog Ezra -ez- Nugroho's blog Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:15:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/02/what-to-do-if-your-startup-is-about-to-fail/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/02/what-to-do-if-your-startup-is-about-to-fail/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:58:08 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=205 Today Jason Calacanis sent a post to his mailing list subscriber titled “What to do if your startup is about to fail (or ‘Dont stop believing’).” It is not a post with a happy tone, but it has actionable suggestions about what you can do to cut cost and to prolong your runway. The best thing is [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/02/what-to-do-if-your-startup-is-about-to-fail/feed/ 3 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/12/pownce-to-be-shut-down-by-six-apart/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/12/pownce-to-be-shut-down-by-six-apart/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:54:31 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/12/pownce-to-be-shut-down-by-six-apart/ Pownce, the media-rich Twitter competitor that was co-founded by Digg ’s Kevin Rose along with Leah Culver and Daniel Burka, has been acquired by Six Apart and will be closing its doors on December 15. I am a little bit surprised to hear this, considering the amount of hype that Pownce and it’s founder Leah Culver have [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/12/pownce-to-be-shut-down-by-six-apart/feed/ 1 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/10/designing-with-vision/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/10/designing-with-vision/#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:07:03 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=134 Dave Cortright created designed this slide deck titled “Designing With Vision.” It really blew my mind off. The deck reminded me of my ex colleague Keisuke Omi, who is also a super talented designer. Please check it out, let me and/or him know what you think. Designing With Vision View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: startup [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/10/designing-with-vision/feed/ 1 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/10/compensation-structure-for-early-companies/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/10/compensation-structure-for-early-companies/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:23:49 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=121 Just got this from planetvc today. Matt McCall who writes at VC Confidential recently posted a compensation structure for typical early stage companies. Matt stressed out that what he meant with ‘early’ is not start-up at bootstrap phase. At which, salaries are much lower, but equity ownerships are higher. I am a little surprised that the [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/10/compensation-structure-for-early-companies/feed/ 1 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/09/cuil-aint-no-cl/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/09/cuil-aint-no-cl/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:57:17 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=58 This month we are celebrating Google’s 10th anniversary, so let’s celebrate it by writing a review about Cuil. Why do people beat a dead horse? I often wonder… Anyway… Cuil was launched close to two months ago, with great fanfare, boasting as the world’s largest search engine. Cuil claims to have an index of 121 billion web [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/09/cuil-aint-no-cl/feed/ 0 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/09/venture-backed-startup-jobs/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/09/venture-backed-startup-jobs/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:51:34 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=35 If you are looking for a job in a venture-backed start-ups, here is a good website to start: http://www.ventureloop.com/ventureloop/job_search.php. You can search the title, the description, and also the company name, you can filter jobs by location and function. Results includes the date of job publishing, company name, VC backer, and location. ]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/09/venture-backed-startup-jobs/feed/ 1 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/09/only-once/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/09/only-once/#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:59:05 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=28 The person in my head today is Marc Cuban. He crept in my head while I was reading his interview with Jason Calacanis at TechChrunch50. Marc is a self-made billionaire, who started selling trash-bags while he was 12 to buy some cool shoes. In one sense I was doing better (or worse??) than him for not [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/09/only-once/feed/ 0 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/08/hurry-calacanis-stil-accept-subscribers/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/08/hurry-calacanis-stil-accept-subscribers/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:23:02 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=11 For whatever it’s worth, I am posting a time sensitive post to a brand new blog, with probably only 1 reader. Maybe through some flux, this post will benefit someone… Here is the news: Jason Calacanis seems to still accept new subscribers to his private mailing list!! If you haven’t heard yet, Calacanis officially announced his retirement [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/08/hurry-calacanis-stil-accept-subscribers/feed/ 1