nikhils

Anyone know where I can get hold of useful stats on % of users who upgrade to premium/paid for accounts on services like Flickr and Last.fm.

Need some decent stats for benchmarking and have had no luck getting anything of use.

Thanks.

Has anyone had experience with this site/service or anything similar?

http://www.formsmadesimple.co.uk

Costs 85 pounds, we're thinking about forking out as it should save us a lot of legal fees if we're able to draft and get lawyers to review our docs.

I'd like to do some broad background reading on a range of subjects such as website usability, information architecture, project/workflow management of large website builds, management of functional tasks, etc. to supplement existing knowledge through common sense, small project experience, anecdotal learnings etc.

I've got 2 books I've come across that I'm considering purchasing:

Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability:

Web Redesign: Workflow That Works (Voices That Matter)

Does anyone know these books and what do you think of them? Otherwise what would you recommend?

I know it's a broad list but these are the areas I need to cement my knowledge in and fast!

Thanks.

We are a team of three co-founders, each with equal equity share (1/3 each, we've yet to gain funding as we're still early on our journey).

We have an opportunity for someone to get involved who has lots to bring to the business, having worked for one of the major players in the space. He loves the concept and wants to take an active role in the company - more than just adviser but not quite co-founder as he currently has a full-time job.

So we are in a quandary: how to decide what equity share he is worth to us? As of yet, we do not have a valuation. So I'm not sure how we can apply the 1/(1-n) rule (Ref. one of PG's essays) in this case.

Here are some thoughts we've had so far...

- Difficult to base it on the value he'll bring to the company but this is obviously the standard way of giving away equity. So how do we solve this problem?

- It's likely he'll be helping us with gaining funding, so we've thought about structuring it as a "base + bonus" share, dependent on how much money he helps us secure.

So are there standard ways of approaching this kind of situation? And what questions should we be asking ourselves?

If anyone has particular thoughts on it we'd be really keen to speak to you in more detail about what we're doing.

Many thanks,

Nikhil