We have published 39 posts with content (and a few with updates which I have excluded from this quick analysis).
Of the 39 content posts:
+ 11 were on EXECUTION and accounted for 44% of visits to Laserlike; or a mean of 4% of visits per post.
+ 28 were on IDEAS and accounted for 56% of visits to Laserlike; or a mean of 2% of visits per post.
The community has spoken! We will try to focus on more EXECUTION posts. Of course, IDEAS are much easier than EXECUTION, so thank you in advance for your patience 
Update: 7/18
According to data from Alexa, the average Laserlike reader is an 18-24 year old single male.
7 Comments
July 18, 2008 at 12:37 am
post a file of (url, date, type, nonsearch traffic, search traffic) for us to play with. i’d be curious to try to back out the age bias.
July 18, 2008 at 1:32 am
“Of course, IDEAS are much easier than EXECUTION”
As in real life
July 18, 2008 at 6:08 am
Adding a “me too” to Josh Schachter’s post.
July 18, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Another VC bites the dust… what is it with this “ideas vs. execution” dichotomy? Doesn’t anyone else see that you can’t execute nothing — it takes an idea. I get that it’s better to execute a bad idea, take the data, iterate, and execute a better one than to try (the impossible) of iterating on an idea until it’s the “best.” But there are some ideas that take longer than others to grow.
I think it’s just that no VC wants to wait for an entrepreneur to have a good idea AFTER they’ve taken the VC’s money.
Anyway, for my part, I really enjoyed the idea posts on the blog. And I’ll still be thinking while I’m executing. Probably more than would be optimal. But oh well. I’ll stick with Socrates on this question.
July 18, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Michael, I’m going to keep posting ideas. I’m just going to balance it out more with execution posts…
July 18, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Phew. [Wiping forehead]. There’s still Fred Wilson, but aside from him I’m coming here for the VC brain twisters.
July 19, 2008 at 4:43 am
Joshua, Aneesh — posted an Excel here. It’s called laserlike_stats.xls. Visitor numbers exclude RSS feeds, which I assumed had a distribution that matches the site visits and are likely ~2x the site visits. The only search data that WordPress provides is on a sheet in called “search terms” and the visits by post title are on the sheet called “by post.” I also posted Alexa demographic data. While flawed, it’s likely directionally right.
Finally, search is tiny as the site was only recently indexed.
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