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Anatomy of Seed
Nice visualization and analysis of a seed round.
funding  infographic  square  startup 
april 2011 by mcroydon
9 Ways To Disrupt And "Hipmunk" An Industry
Hipmunk have essentially put a pretty face on ITA's interface that's been around for years. And they're doing well for it.
aviation  business  startup  travel 
february 2011 by mcroydon
Contrast | The Blog | Getting your users on-board
Various ways to engage with your existing and potential users.
acquisition  design  marketing  social  startup 
january 2011 by mcroydon
New Startup Analyzes 100,000 Web Pages With a Snap of Your Fingers
These tools are getting a lot better but still require lots of human intervention to avoid false assertions.
analysis  extractiv  data  research  science  semantic  tool  startup  semanticweb  crawling 
november 2010 by mcroydon
MVP vs. Dry Test - Yongfook’s posterous
MVP means you actually have a product however barebones it might be.
mvp  startup 
july 2010 by mcroydon
How I Launched My MVP: Reputely | Startupist
How to launch without having a product. Somewhere between nothing and a MVP.
mvp  startup  feedback 
july 2010 by mcroydon
was it up?
A nice quick look at how many people are using this service.
visualization  startup  statistics 
march 2010 by mcroydon
mite.blog. Facts & figures: The first 20 months of our small SaaS start-up going for premium-only instead of freemium
It appears that low-friction (no card) trials (and having a product worth the money) were key to this particular premium-not-freemium success.
business  evernote  ipad  iphone  saas  startup 
march 2010 by mcroydon
Latest News: Now Serving: Everyone! · Forkinit
Pragmatic Badger takes the private beta wraps off of Forkinit.com. Massive props to Daniel and Xian for their hard work.
forkinit  pragmaticbadger  recipes  startup  business  launch 
february 2010 by mcroydon
Creately Blog » How much to charge for your Web App?
Interesting info. The number of people who start but don't finish Paypal transactions is a little troubling.
webdev  business  toread  startup  api  web2.0  entrepreneurship  app  startups  webapp  pricing  webapplications  price  creately  ceately 
january 2010 by mcroydon
Lean Analytics For Startups
Definitely worth clicking through and thinking about.
toread  analysis  startup  analytics  metrics  deck  startups  powerpoint  leanstartup 
january 2010 by mcroydon
Bingo Card Creator Year In Review 2009: MicroISV on a Shoestring
"I’m currently making more than enough money to live off of on Bingo Card Creator (I live rather simply in a rural prefecture in Japan — think Kansas with rather less white people) and, depending on the month, have made more than my day job a few times."
startup  report  cards  bingo  hackernews 
december 2009 by mcroydon
Square
I hope these folks succeed -- the concept is pretty fantastic.
mobile  design  software  tools  hardware  business  phone  online  cool  interesting  iphone  startup  audio  tool  app  inspiration  twitter  shopping  money  ecommerce  ping.fm  payment  card  billing  payments  square  commerce  squareup  credit  creditcard 
december 2009 by mcroydon
How I Hire Programmers (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
"There are three questions you have when you’re hiring a programmer (or anyone, for that matter): Are they smart? Can they get stuff done? Can you work with them?"
programming  business  toread  howto  dev  tech  work  article  management  startup  collaboration  entrepreneurship  jobs  job  interview  career  process  hiring  essay  developers  programmers  good  hr  programmer  cv  interviewing  interviews  hire  jobsearch  best 
november 2009 by mcroydon
Why My Previous Business Didn't Work
Lessons learned. Just like with open source projects, small startups need a BDFL who can stop the bickering and make sure that everyone is headed in the right direction. Also, fear doesn't appear to be an effective driver.
business  advice  entrepreneurship  startup 
august 2009 by mcroydon
Urbanspoon Is Now Taking Online Reservations: Takes on OpenTable
An interesting look at launching with very few features, building new features while growing your userbase, and eventually taking on the 800 lb gorilla in your market.
startup  food  webapp  restaurants  mvp 
august 2009 by mcroydon
Culture
There's nothing in here that should be blindly applied elsewhere but this is a fascinating and enlightening look at the Netflix culture.
business  toread  work  management  startup  presentation  productivity  ideas  inspiration  culture  slides  jobs  entrepreneurship  advice  presentations  hiring  career  netflix  corporate  salary  company  leadership  slideshow  hr  values  corporateculture  policy  slideshare  employee  talent 
august 2009 by mcroydon
Lessons Learned: The Steve Jobs method
Figuring out what your users actually want and getting it right more often than not is one way to make something amazing.
design  development  apple  business  toread  management  internet  startup  marketing  innovation  entrepreneurship  startups  strategy  entrepreneur  pixar  product  life  lean  success  stevejobs  ping.fm 
august 2009 by mcroydon
Getting Good IO from Amazon's EBS
How to get good performance out of this mysterious creature.
amazon  storage  performance  startup  aws  testing  ec2  optimization  benchmark  ebs  raid  disk  io 
august 2009 by mcroydon
Why I don’t worry about competiton « Rashmi’s blog
"If you worry too much about competition, you are always playing the follower game, following in their footsteps. You stop seeing the lay of the land since you are so focused on what your competition. Instead of leading the company with your own strategy, you start driving based on someone else’s strategy which you might not understand, and which does not focus on your strengths."
entrepreneurship  competition  business  startup 
july 2009 by mcroydon
How To Make Money -- Less Everything Blog
Good points. You're not going to sell something that's crap but you have to have something awesome and lovable of value priced right.
startup  money 
july 2009 by mcroydon
A Brief History of BitBacker, A Startup
Release early. No, earlier than that. No, strip features. Earlier. Now you're getting close. There are also some things you need to figure out before you get knee deep in dev. Also do your best to set expectations so that your users will expect UI changes so you can have one less thing to stress out about.
webdev  business  startup 
july 2009 by mcroydon
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