Software By Rob

MARCH 30, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Reviewing HowsThe.com March 30th, 2010 | Website Reviews Building your startup? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. If youre trying to grow your startup youve come to the right place. 4 Chris on 03.31.10

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Work Less, Get More Done: Analytics for Maximizing Productivity – Patrick McKenzie is the embodiment of Micropreneurship; his focus on marketing, metrics and outsourcing is nothing short of impressive. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

How do you find that perfect Twitter handle or that ideal epithet for your blog, website or startup — one that’s snappy and memorable, and that you won’t hate by next year? A tech Startup OTOH may find themselves having to pivot as new players and innovation come into their market. And Good luck! Others, were great ideas.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. By the way, this is why TechCrunch traffic is not profitable for startups. It’s completely un-targeted (unless your niche market is other startups) and you have no relationship with that audience. You will not regret doing this.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

I am starting to execute an eerily similar approach in the Big Data analytics market. Would you sell an ebook version on this site for all the rest of us trying to incorporate your model in our startups? most (interesting) startups you’re either doing something completely new or you’re resegmenting an existing market.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Here’s an interesting exercise: find a startup or microISV founder and ask the following: What are the top 3 approaches you use to find customers? Most startup founders think about driving traffic to their website. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies. it’s not because you can create short links but because of the analytics that bit.ly

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Software By Rob

JULY 24, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← The Future of the Web is Small, Academic Earth, Beatles Rock Band, Top Developer Blogs, et al. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. And you know what?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

sgblank Lean Startup Cirle 111909 This movie requires Adobe Flash for playback. They were kind enough to sponsor a meet-up in San Francisco. The video below was my presentation to the group. The slides below go with the video. Just click through them as you watch the video.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I tried to make it a little more entertaining than your average job RSS feed. If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here. Over 1,000 senior professionals have since signed up for the mailer, which goes out on Fridays. It wants to click.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Startups ›. View More in Startups ›. The firm, Correlation Ventures, is using predictive analytics technology to tilt the odds in its favor. The company and its technology, which are now part of Minnesota’s FICO, are often identified as the progenitor of San Diego’s proliferating cluster of analytics software companies.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2010

We've written before about the steps you can take, for example, to make sure that your website is ready even if your startup isn't. Install Analytics Setup RSS feeds for mentions of my site, or target keywords on blogs, twitter, and other social sites. and include a few new users who haven't seen the product yet. Discuss.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2010

L et’s face it: with the amount of information we get on a daily basis through browsing and reading news, RSS, Twitter, Facebook and other sources, it’s becoming increasingly harder to cut the wheat from the chaff. Mixpanel – analytics. Google Analytics – more analytics. Highrise – CRM.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

To understand the idea of traffic half-life, look at this Google Analytics screen shot from 6 weeks ago for traffic coming from Hacker News : Notice the spike and the decay. Long Half-life – SEO, email subscribers, RSS subscribers, Facebook fans (in some instances). Very rapid.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

In addition, only some of the information above is verifiable, and we did that with screen shots and exports from Google Analytics. If this series has been interesting stick around ( RSS feeds are cool). Bottom line: it’s pretty easy to come up with a laundry list of things to ask for. Only then did I tender an offer. Conclusion.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 27, 2010

Why on earth would I use their product when I already use Google Analytics (99% of the web developers do too)? Google Analytics is already providing me with the same features plus more, for free and with more reliability. To me KissMetrics looks like another case of Simplicitrite (a new disease among developers / entrepreneurs).

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

saas microsoft google apps security salesforce.com collaboration google enterprise mobility enterprise security enterprise collaboration mobile cloud computing ibm apple crm oracle cloud blackberry social media iphone sap socialtext work analytics cisco sharepoint social crm android enterprise2.0 startupcto

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. October 22nd, 2009 | Cool News, Links & Reviews Building your startup?

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www.readwriteweb.com

DECEMBER 9, 2011

A few stalwarts predominate, such as Git, Eclipse, AWS, Dropbox, MySQL, and Google Analytics. aws , git , google analytics , heroku , ruby on rails. A few stalwarts predominate, such as Git, Eclipse, AWS, Dropbox, MySQL, and Google Analytics. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteBiz. ReadWriteEnterprise.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 31, 2011

For local businesses I would recommend you to find blogs in your niche (including the blogs of your competitors) and subscribe to their RSS (I use Google Reader for that). Do you have any web analytics in place? On the long run, the web analytics will tell you if you are getting results from your SEO effort. Technicalities.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2013

Concepts embodied in “ Blue Ocean Strategy ” and “ The Lean Startup ” could be used to develop pioneering ideas that can rock markets eg McCafe by McDonald’s which is giving Starbucks a run for its caffeine-laced bucks. Admittedly, ” The Impact Equation ” is more anecdotal than analytical.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. The goal of their startup in this stage becomes “getting funded.”

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

5 Essential Spreadsheets for Social Media Analytics. Social media analytics and tracking can be very time-consuming and expensive. Here, we’ll share a few ready-made spreadsheets you can copy (navigate File + Make a copy ) and use for social media analytics. Social media analytics. February 9, 2012 by Ann Smarty.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

Don’t blog about what you think would be “cool.&# I don’t think that most startup blogs should be about how to build a startup. I started with the hosted version and then migrated to an installed version so I could use Google Analytics and some other products. Actually, that’s kind of lame.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Twelve months into my startup journey I had four half-built websites that had been built by my four ex-technical co-founders. What makes software engineers different in the startup world is that they have the requisite skills to hack together an idea on their own if they so choose.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

Visual Website Optimizer is a recent startup that simply rocks You just have to add a javascript code in your pages and you won’t have to touch your website again each time to create a new A/B test. Analytics You need to understand your customers/users better. You can find more tool ideas on the Startup Tools Wiki.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. You may need to do something rash like start a startup or start building apps on the side and become a Micropreneur. Weaknesses that mean I’ll never do some of the things I dreamt of in college (being the CEO of a startup, for example).

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

Visual Website Optimizer is a recent startup that simply rocks You just have to add a javascript code in your pages and you won’t have to touch your website again each time to create a new A/B test. Analytics You need to understand your customers/users better. You can find more tool ideas on the Startup Tools Wiki.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

So, if you’re anything like me, your first startup will need to be self-funded and operated with a very lean budget. Instead, I had to scrape and claw my way through the pre-launch, startup process, and scale of my business. Keeping this in mind, I launched a startup with virtually zero marketing budget. Knowledge is power.

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leananalyticsbook.com

AUGUST 19, 2012

Lean Analytics Book. For startups, Twitter is a goldmine. Another huge boon to startups everywhere is LinkedIn. Next post → Pingback: Finding your One Metric That Matters | Lean Analytics Book. Lean Analytics and the One Metric That Matters: A Presentation for Acceleprise. Skip to navigation. Skip to footer.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup. in security , startups. Many startups use Ruby on Rails. Other startups don’t but, like the Rails community, may one day find themselves asking What Do We Do When Apocalyptically Bad Things Happen On Our Framework of Choice? We’re A Startup.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

I learned a lot at Convergent, going from product marketing manager in a small startup to VP of Marketing of the Unix Division as it became a public company. If you’re are a startup founder or an early employee, there may come a time in your relationship that your significant other/spouse will ask you the “ what’s more important?

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Spencer Fry

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

As I get ready to launch my new startup Uncover , my team and I created a GitHub Issues List of what we need to check off. Complete Homepage copy: One of the pages we left for last – and I know many new startups do – is the copy for the homepage. I guess I'm setting myself up to get called out if I screw it up with my new startup.)

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. “Ah, okay, great”, and he moved to another subject. Image 6 â?? startupcto'

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Over scrambled eggs and diet coke, I listened to this seasoned startup veteran describe the excitement of his students who came to the U.S. Win, lose or draw, these students have a life changing experience where they can network and get smarter as they see what good startup thinking looks like. to compete.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

One of my favorite startup debates is about stealth mode. Vivek Wadhwa ( @vwadhwa ) TechCrunch even published a piece decrying the end of startup stealth mode. Which is in direct contradiction to his earlier blog post, “ Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret.&#

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace.

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