Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

They think they are saving costs by not using the latest technology to capture data, and minimizing storage. Way back in 2002, Jeff Bezos at Amazon issued an ultimatum to completely institute internal APIs within the company, and later to their millions of suppliers. Apply machine-learning for real-time software decisions.

Artificial Inteligence 210

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm API China 210

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

When Elon Musk received $200 million from the proceeds of the PayPal acquisition in 2002, he re-invested everything to build the next big thing: $100 million in SpaceX and $100 million in Tesla. It occurred to him that he should try and find one of the drivers going his way and offer to share petrol costs in exchange for use of an empty seat.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Churn Rate Silicon Valley Engineer 48

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn. We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002.

San Francisco 137

San Francisco Product Lean Continuous Deployment 137

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. And we can offer investors metrics to play Moneyball – with the Investment Readiness Level. We think we can do better. Here’s how.

Oakland 326

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 326

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

The development takes way longer, and ends up costing way more. User experience guru Jared Spool was talking about the dangers of radical redesigns already back in 2003, Louis Rosenfeld was ranting against it in 2002, and so on. Listening to people is a good idea, but you have to pay attention to the metrics. Remember Digg.com?

Conversion 124

Conversion Technical Review Design Framework 124

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

called The Rise of a Insta-Company, which theorized that open source, cheap bandwidth and increasingly falling cost of infrastructure would result in companies being built at a dramatically lower cost than ever before. All those sites used up our meager resources — monetary, design, engineering and intellectual. Back to the top.

Founder 80

Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

” Adobe Target is an enterprise testing tool that does a great job of leveraging a visitor based metric system. High Cost and barrier for entry means that a lot of people dismiss it without really understanding the true benefits of the tool. Cons: Stats Engine – Their stats engine is both a pro and a con for us.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Conversion 48