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Cycle Gap: Paul Graham On Two Kinds of Programmers and Painters
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Face detection with PHP – Website and PHP performance on xarg
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Assistly – make your customers smile
“Turn your customers into evangelists by providing outstanding support”
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Hacker News | Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?
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Ethics aside, if a company/startup can’t be bothered to make new slides after stealing an idea, it will likely make similar inflexible “shortcuts” later on and fail miserably (as the article showed).
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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?! « Steve Blank
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While the common wisdom said that our success was going to be determined by which company executed better, the common wisdom was wrong. In a startup success isn’t about just execution, it’s how well we could take our original hypothesis and learn, discover, iterate and execute.
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Chromium Blog: Technically speaking, what makes Google Chrome fast?
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Build a system, not a product « Opportunity Cloud
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The master grows a system. She knows that no matter how good she thinks her idea is, what matters is only what the customer thinks. That is why the master builds her startup as a learning system that can adapt to new findings – evolve. She knows that in a startup, both the problem and the solution are unknowns. The idea is useless until proven otherwise. The product is useless until proven otherwise. So you must always be learning.
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The master builds her product and her entire company like a living system, an organism with eyes and ears, agile and adaptive.
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How to Discover Your Life’s Purpose – 7 Questions to Ask
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I notice when information is not presented in a clear, practical, and simplistic form. This is a sign of my purpose. I’m obsessed with practicality and simplicity. When I teach, I try to teach in a very practical and simple way.
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- What sparks your creativity?
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These questions are signs to your purpose. They’re pointing you in the direction of a specific purpose. One question alone doesn’t tell the whole story; you must look at all of your answers collectively. Each answer is a piece of the “purpose” puzzle.
Study these questions, and your answers, and you will be well on your way to discovering your purpose. Thank you for reading!
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Gojko Adzic » Improving testing practices at Google
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Google had a team of Test Mercenaries, who joined different teams for a short period of time to help them with testing. In most cases, they could see what was wrong after a few days and started helping the teams, but the effort wasn’t a success. When they left, teams would not improve significantly.
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Hacker News | Aardvark Mulls Over A $30+ Million Offer From Google
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Here’s another way to look at it: not only do they get their employees to spend 20% of their time working on their own cool stuff for Google, they have ex-employees spending 100% of their time working on their own cool stuff for Google.
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Lessons Learned – Viral Marketing – For Entrepreneurs
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A short study of this web site reveals that a hugely important factor for success in startup companies is finding ways to acquire customers at a low cost. In the Business Models section, we looked at the perfect business model: Viral customer acquisition with good monetization.
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To give you a preview of this post, what you will learn is that there are two key parameters that drive how viral growth happens, the Viral Coefficient, and the Viral Cycle Time.
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In YouTube’s case the Viral Cycle Time was extremely short: a user would come to the site, see a funny video, and immediately send the link on to their friends. Tabblo, on the other hand, had a much longer cycle time. A customer would post some photos on the site and invite their friends. The friends might see the photos on Tabblo, and like the experience and decide that they would use the site the next time they took photos they wanted to share. However, that is where the problem came in: it could take months before they next took photos, and decided to share them.
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The most viral products are those that only work if they are shared. For example, Skype only worked in the early days if you got your friends on to Skype, otherwise you had now way to call them. If you have an application today, think about how you can make it social, where it would work better by sharing data with friends/co-workers. That provides a great incentive for customers to invite their friends/colleagues to use the application.
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You should also be looking for ways to encourage customers to invite people at various junctures in their use of the application. And of course, you should be asking yourself the question: is the value proposition of your product really that compelling that your customers will want to share it with others?
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Another great way to increase virality is to incent customers with a reward for every customer they successfully convert. Since this can result in an individual feeling guilty that they are making money off their friends, the best way to do this is to also provide the friend that is receiving the invitation with an equal incentive. Now your customer will feel like they are doing their friends a favor.
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