Startup Review - Facebook Case Study
Posted by austin under Startup Resources
Earlier this summer I ran across a great blog Startup Review by Nisan Gabbay, who was until recently an analyst at Sierra Ventures and now has a startup in stealth mode.
Nisan has done some great case studies detailing various startups stories. As a 
resource for technology entrepreneurs, case studies on successful Internet companies are not that easy to come by. By writing more detailed reviews on business models, financing strategies and different models of building successful companies he has compiled a great resource for any entrepreneur working on a web related startup.
His recent review on Facebook is a great study of how their micro communities grew out of college campuses by leveraging existing offline behaviors resulting in a social networking leader generating revenue of $1 million a week in Q1 2006.
Since I’m now keeping track of more then 600 RSS feeds, I hadn’t made it down to the letter S in my list of blogs before running into Mathew Ingram’s post on the Facebook case study. As one of Canada’s top technology reporters Mathew maintains multiple blogs covering his work, fun internet tidbits and the media industry. His blogs are in my daily read folder which means that many of the most interesting items waiting for me in my general feed folders are discovered through his posts.
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November 9th, 2006 at 9:02 am
Thanks for the link, Austin — and for the kind words as well.
Mathew
November 9th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
I highly recommend that your readers check out Karel Baloun’s book “Inside Facebook” which is available in downloadable format at http://www.fbbook.com.
Karel covers the inside aspects of Facebook, and the founding team, and what it was like being the first sr. software engineer there. Take a look.
November 9th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
Thanks Ted. I completely forgot to refer to that great resource. The inside look that Karel provided was really interesting. It is a good view of the inside look.
I found it missing the details of what as entrepreneur I find interesting aspects of their financing strategies, the higher CPM/CPA model that their communities generate and the business side of the growth.