Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

For some reason there is so much on this blog about the “business side” of things but not much technical stuff. So to make up for that this post covers some of the “technical” best practices around tracking with your web analytics tools, especially if you are using JavaScript tags. This is sub optimal.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

.” In our performance consulting work, we often hear variations of the following: “Our web application was running fine with a few hundred users. Too often though, it’s the result of performance needs not being properly assessed at the start of work. Web application performance is a broad discipline. Framework Benchmarks.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? If you read a lot of these though you start wondering if the only route into the world of web startups is to be a developer or computer engineer of some kind.

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The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

So you’ve developed your dream app and uploaded it to the market, eagerly waiting for a flood of downloads to propel your product to stardom. But despite announcing it on your Facebook page and getting some positive reviews, you can’t seem to get past 50 downloads a day. Here are some of my top tips: 1. The second time is meaningful.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2019

Blog posts by your development team explain the complexities of how the AI system works, highlight how you gather and parse training data, and list use cases befitting Fortune 500 clients. It can also come up in face-to-face meetings—sales pitches, conferences talks, account reviews, etc. Have a broad review process.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? These “startups” are almost always mostly-non-technical founders offering 1-2% premoney for a “lead developer” position. Was it a case of needing Homework?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. And when — if ever — do you need to hire your own full- or part-time, in-house dev to work on your website and applications? Do a web search to find platform-specific tools.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

If you’re setting business goals – and you absolutely should be – CRMs can help you review your metrics (i.e. number of emails sent, number of meetings booked) to understand how your team is doing. Business development teams can use CRMs statistics and reporting features to inform decisions and track potential leads.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

With development teams often based around the world, being the center of communication and progress can either lead to a tremendously successful strategy or a bottleneck that can slow down an entire company. Organization and Execution Your new CTO should be able to handle your development team so that projects run along smoothly.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Labels: product development 8comments: Vincent van Wylick said. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. Each day, the analytics team would share a report with them that had the details of how each test was doing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. What is customer development?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. In order to do this, we have our customer development team work hard to find a market, any market, for the product as currently specified. A book I am looking forward to read after reading you blog. Expo SF (May.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

For a long time I had a rule for my blog: no pop-ups. I considered pop-up banners one of the most annoying things about surfing the web, especially during the early days before pop-up blockers became standard in browsers. So are you ready to start using a pop-up on your blog or website? Things have changed.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Purpose of an MVP and Defining the Right MVP I've really not talked as much about this in my blog even though its hugely important. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. Review the code being built.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. Open APIs and data-oriented architecture (aka "web 2.0"). The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

On this blog we have talked about the importance of the “Why” often. Web Analytics usually simply helps us understand the “What” Clickstream data typically does not tell us why something happened. That’s your Eureka moment. What is lab usability testing?

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

We as marketing people and people that use the web tend to over-estimate homepages in terms of their importance because they’re the front page of your site. The marketing team wants this video. The web designer’s like, “What do I do?” Like 10 years ago reviews on product pages were nonexistent.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. Here’s a review from Andrew Anderson from Malwarebytes : Andrew Anderson: “ Pros – Offers the best in-product segmentation available. Browserling offers live interaction, web-based browser testing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Most of the other processs changes - mandatory design reviews (prelimninary, critical, etc), - documenting all our procedures, and so on - were to support those two factors. A project usually has an absolute duration and budget whereas the time and money dedicated to development within the project is where the tradeoffs are made.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Trada Blog: Paid Search Marketing, Online Advertising and Small Biz Trada's blog for small businesses making paid search, online advertising and social media easier to understand. It seems like the approach du jour is blog first, fundraise second. One of my favorite startup debates is about stealth mode.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

If you’re new to the world of web design and want to know how you can use it to your medical company’s advantage, this is the article for you. First, content is typically the primary resource that an online reader/viewer will use to develop an impression of your brand. Hiring The Right Web Design And Development Team.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Anything you read on popular blogs is also read by everyone else. During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. To summarize: Anything that can be copied will be copied, including features, marketing copy, and pricing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

He shows how the actions of people inside traditional systems are motivated by their rational assessment of their own economics. Reinertsen does not speak about startups specifically - his book is meant to speak broadly to product development teams across industries and sectors. Wow, great review! Expo SF (May.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

This requires a visual web-editor (assuming you’re building a web-application). Personally I use Visual Web-Developer from Microsoft - it’s free and powerful. However, it is also very complicated to use, as it’s a full web-development environment. Write them as a chronological story.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Balancing competing objectives is a recurring theme on this blog - its the central challenge of all management decisions. The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. Expo SF (May.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms. As the mobile application space continues to explode, developers are increasingly using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 to aid in the creation of web apps and native mobile apps. This is particularly true for mobile devices.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Expensify Blog. Blog posts like this might be part of why you’re finding it hard to hire good people. It’s funny how you’re using the MOST SUCCESSFUL food chain as your analogy to.NET developers. I was just looking at your web site. « chawisa's blog. Some additional comments at the end.

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www.readwriteweb.com

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Then something happened to the CMS market, and a more democratic and user-led effort began with the rise of the blog. The entry of the blog didn't help matters. While blogs can and are used as CMS, they really are poor substitutes. Most CMS's are still the province of the dev team, and protected as such.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The number one question you all asked after reading my last blog post about starting a business from scratch was “how do I find my co-founders?&# Feel free to follow me on Twitter to get notifications of later posts on this topic, both here and on the Meebo Blog. Honestly assess your own strengths and weaknesses thoroughly.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

A tip from our dev team: don’t hard-code strings in your app. You can Google ideas and see what the autocomplete dishes out, ask your friends (also a great resource for foreign language keywords), research your competitors’ keywords, scan your AppStore reviews for hints, or my favorite – use Twitter. Isn’t that fun?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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