nabeel Hyatt

"Counting your entire user base in ongoing virality is certainly an issue, but especially in social games you do not see a viral coefficient of 0 for ongoing engaged users. You typically have two primary cycles, the install (early user) and engagement (ongoing user) viral rates, and modeling properly means keeping track of both. Having a product that can get that first invite quickly (YouTube) is critically important, but one shouldn't overlook the power of continued reason to invite over time - another area where YouTube excelled actually. But this is an incredibly important point to bring to light, as it's really not talked about enough. It's so bad that I commonly see entrepreneurs not thinking about viral cycle time, and therefore automatically setting it to one month. Why? Simply because they are charting out the next year of growth and their excel spreadsheet is simply taking the "new users" from the month previous and multiplying by the viral coefficient." - nabeel Hyatt

"They talked to us a few years ago about doing an Ambient product, cool folks." - nabeel Hyatt

"Yup. Tour + iPhone, and an extra Tour battery in the backpack just in case, that's me too. Although I'm not using the iPhone that much -- but probably will when on the road. Very. Dork." - nabeel Hyatt

"If you are fine with no keyboard Higgs, then you are in luck. HTC and SonyEricsson are producing great Android phones with no keyboards. The Sony Xperia X10 is likely to be a big winner, it has the fastest processor ever put on a Droid phone and I've had great luck with SonyEricsson phones in the past. Unfortunately I need my primary phone to be email-first -- which means keyboard. I wrote up my other thoughts on the Droid here... although largely concluded the same things as Bijan: http://nabeelhyatt.com/post......" - nabeel Hyatt

"I've been doing Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros nonstop for two days now!" - nabeel Hyatt