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Growth: The problem solver that creates problems

The Next Web

In the last few months we’ve been seeing great growth in 3 key metrics: The number of websites signing up and using the system. Here is a graph of the load we have on our API and you can see the peaks in minutes: The company got bigger. Build an API, scaling without it would be impossible. We’ve spent $0 on outbound marketing.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

What metrics do we use to see if we learned enough in Customer Discovery ? I gave my boilerplate answer, “I’m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics. Dave McClure has some great metrics…” It was an honest but vaguely unsatisfying answer. As for #3. I agree completely.

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How to Get Sponsorship for Your Business, Book or Podcast

ConversionXL

Zendesk maintains a Ruby on Rails API client, making it relevant to the conference as a company and potential employer for Ruby on Rails developers. It contains the story of your property, mission statement, sponsor benefits, demographics, marketing plan, goals, media opportunities, advisory board, and the sponsor fees.”.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition, third-party services and API’s enabled us to do more with less, but at a cost: taking on the technical debt of products and teams outside our direct control. I'm not sure that it makes sense to consider, say, PayPal's subpar API, as technical debt. July 29, 2009 6:57 AM Heiner Wolf said.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Use their api to handle payment related stuff. Rovi API has everything you need for information. Rdio provides the music and the player via an API. Box API lets you store files dynamically! Camera, video, and most of the APIs described above for web Tools). Google Geocoding API. Managing APIs.

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

And unlike other fintech companies that are primarily equity-financed, we raise capital by offering a best in class savings product to consumers (a 1 month renewable CD that pays 6% APY), which in turn allows us to meet our short term capital needs required for loan origination.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. .