Tag Archive | "startup"
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Given its track record (Google, PayPal, LinkedIn, Zappos, YouTube, etc.), it should come as no surprise that the advice of Sequioa Capital is worth listening to. According to the venture capital firm, start-ups sharing some of these characteristics increase their chances of becoming enduring companies: Clarity of purpose: “Summarize the company’s [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Podio, a danish startup that has received $4.5 m in funding, will unveil tomorrow how it intends to reinvent collaboration in the workplace. faberNovel had the chance to take a look at this offer before its launch. Podio‘s approach offers some continuity with the current trends in IT for the workplace, [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: A presentation by James Birchler (@jamesbirchler), Engineering Director at IMVU (a social game and entertainment site) explains how to successfully apply lean startup principles to product development: Rapid iteration = rapid learning You need to foster a culture of experimentation: “running experiments is fun!” Keep it simple: simple to code, simple [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Dropbox has now become synonymous of painless files synchronization. While the concept may not sound very original, Dropbox delivered an elegant, fast and simple solution for its users: users drop files in a folder that gets synchronized automatically between computers (and even smartphones): this workflow does not require using another software [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: During a speech at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference (Austin, Texas), LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman gave his list of 10 rules of entrepreneurship. Among them: Be disruptive: “[your project] should take $10 revenue and replace it with $1 of revenue, because that’s creating opportunities for new ecosystems.” “Maintain flexible persistence”: [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Best software are opinionated, i.e.: They provide their users with a consistent vision. They do not try to make everyone happy. They seek out customers who are actually partners. A great example is the original wiki design. Ward Cunningham and friends deliberately stripped the wiki of many features that were considered [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: For most web startups, the landing page is the primary entry point to convert visitors into subscribers or customers. Thanks to A/B testing and analytics, web designers have been able to establish best practices, while reckoning that landing pages can and should always been refined. Here are some of the most [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Chris Dixon explains why SEO is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups: Older website have “built up years of inbound links“ Google’s algorithms still promote websites that “engage in aggressive link building” (black-hat SEO) A comment by Laura Lippay replies that while old-school SEO was mainly concerned about making [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: April Dunford explains what are startups and big companies‘s strengths and misperceptions about each other. Big companies What they are better at: Making incremental innovations Nurturing relationships with their existing customers What misperceptions they have about startups: “They do not believe they could out-execute them, even in a niche.” “They do [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Should you focus on UX or on shipping a product as soon as possible? In other words, when is it the right time for a startup to launch? Yet precise, the answer summary (“If your UX is not good, then you can solve the problems during your prototyping stage. Otherwise ship, [...]
