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Oct 29, 2024

10 Lessons in Corporate Incubation from Google’s Area 120

10 Lessons in Corporate Incubation from Google’s Area 120

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Oct 26, 2024

How many checks to bag a unicorn?

Garry Tan recently shared that 5–10% of Y Combinator startups end up becoming unicorns, i.e. worth more than $1B.

How many checks to bag a unicorn?

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Oct 25, 2024

Ideas I’ve been Exploring at South Park Commons

Nearly 6 months ago, I joined South Park Commons. SPC is a community of founders who are in the “-1 to 0” phase, figuring out what they…

Ideas I’ve been Exploring at South Park Commons

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Oct 6, 2024

Users don’t want Feature Parity, they want their Status back

tl;dr: We built a Twitter alternative called T2 (later called Pebble), it didn’t work, and we shut it down. We should have let users reboot…

Users don’t want Feature Parity, they want their Status back

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Jul 3, 2024

Build the Weird Thing First

One of the benefits of having built an alternative to Twitter (and then shut it down) is that I get approached a lot on building other…

Build the Weird Thing First

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Nov 1, 2023

From T2 to Pebble: The Rise, Challenges, and Lessons of Building a Twitter Alternative

Tl;dr We tried to build a Twitter alternative from scratch, starting a few weeks after Elon Musk took over Twitter and laid off half the…

From T2 to Pebble: The Rise, Challenges, and Lessons of Building a Twitter Alternative

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Jun 1, 2019

Before You Launch

I’ve now helped dozens of teams get ready for a first product launch in Area 120. This is the advice I usually give a bit in advance of…

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May 13, 2019

The Build-A-Better-Mousetrap Trap

It happens most often to people with an engineering background like myself: You have an idea for a new app. It’s a better mousetrap — so…

The Build-A-Better-Mousetrap Trap

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Feb 8, 2019

It Doesn’t Matter If The Product Exists

You might spend years building a product only to see your startup die because you can’t grow it. Here’s an example how to avoid that fate.

It Doesn’t Matter If The Product Exists

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Jan 17, 2019

Essential Growth Metrics

Startups and Area 120 projects often ask me to share metrics related to user acquisition: What does it cost me to acquire users via ads…

Gabor Cselle

Gabor Cselle

Former Co-Founder / CEO of Pebble, a Twitter / X alternative that didn't make it. Previously: Startup Entrepreneur, PM, Engineer at Google and others.

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