Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Massive proprietary databases? If the CEO wants to completely change the product in order to serve a new customer segment, you need someone in the room who can digest the needs of the new (proposed) business, and lay out the costs of each possible approach. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said. I dont think so.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is the foundational layer of cloud computing, and includes raw storage, compute, backup, disaster recovery, databases, and security. Your caution in Law 6 about over-estimating the impact of SEM and other lead-generation activity is particularly astute. Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 7:42 PM.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Do you have a bug database? Do you fix bugs before writing code?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

Showscase your products and services. You’re selling a product or service. Make sure that you clearly showcase that product or service on your homepage. You can have a great site design, but if your product photos look terrible, your prospective customers will think twice about buying your products.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

That’s is the problem for a business person trying to find a techie co-founder; the techie probably has an idea of his own, can launch a rudimentary minimally viable product (MVP) over a weekend and host it on Amazon for free. Database (7). Some techies have business sense; most generally don’t have a highly developed one.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

There’s a spectrum from descriptive names which speak directly to a product benefit or attribute, to empty vessel names, where it doesn’t mean anything about the product that we’re talking about.&# View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. I have a couple of points and resources to add.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

After all, your customers ultimately will want to learn more about your company’s products and services, and a dedicated website will help them do so. Showscase your products and services. You’re selling a product or service. Make sure that you clearly showcase that product or service on your homepage.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Rather than producers pushing their products onto consumers, consumers have the tools and means to show up at the producer's door "inbound" and identify their needs and interests. . What might happen with that kind of large-scale genomic data available in that format? Inbound marketing.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Cutting out noise and creating a PPC strategy that drives business: It’s the goal of SEM professionals everywhere. Themes can be a brand, a specific product from a brand, a service, a specific type of service, etc. Create lists of products and services and all the key details that make each product unique.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

So I asked eight founders (all members of YEC ) the following: What is the best SaaS product on the market for managing large amounts of customer data for your business?). I also really appreciate how fast it is to navigate the database, which is important when you’re handling a large volume of customer contacts. KISSmetrics.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. Search marketing. Ahrefs is valuable for getting an inside look at what your competitors are doing online.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. Search marketing. Ahrefs is valuable for getting an inside look at what your competitors are doing online.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 6, 2021

As the business owner, your attention should be focused on leading, pitching your products/services, and managing your big picture operations. . Writing a random blog post every couple of months, sending a one-off email promoting a new product, or following a content calendar sometimes —isn’t going to cut it. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

For tips on how to integrate it into your database and application layers, you can see the tail-end of my JIT Scalability talk. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Three of my favorite: memcached - an in-memory object caching system. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

What do I mean by that (to those of you who are not database geeks)? If you are spending "a lot" on AdWords and AdCenter, this can be a excellent add on to track conversions offline due to your Search Engine Marketing (SEM) campaigns. See if they then go buy the product in the stores. Two words: Primary Key.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Consumerization of products. New technology is allowing for computer vision techniques to the image retrieval problem, that is, the problem of searching for digital images in large databases. In other words, why pay for premium placement of your ads if the user who is viewing them is less likely to buy your service or product?

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