January 2012
7 posts
What Asset Are You Building?
mporat: This post follows a talk I gave at a Mobile Apps and Beer event a couple of weeks ago (another outcome of that talk is my former post Should we meet pre-traction?). The subject of my talk was financing vehicles for mobile apps, and one of the key messages that I was trying to get across was that as an entrepreneur of a mobile app startup, you need to understand what asset you’re trying...
Jan 30th
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Jan 19th
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How the social network dynamic is changing
I was recently asked about how ‘limited’ social networks such as path exist alongside facebook and mainstream social networks, are they competitors or do they complement each other? It got me thinking about how we are currently at an interesting stage in the way we interact online. As social networks are now a big part of the mainstream, users are looking for ways to get back the...
Jan 17th
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Bijan Sabet: Hollywood has decided to go nuclear... →
bijan: More than a decade ago, we got the DMCA. Many people hated it but the content community (Hollywood) pushed very hard for it. They wanted to control what content could and couldn’t exist on the Internet. I’m over simplifying things greatly but the basic DMCA deal was the following 1. Users…
Jan 16th
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This week I'll mostly be...
1. Watching mixpanel like a hawk, it’s fascinating watching users engage with your product. We have learnt so much from monitoring actionable metrics, we tweak the interface based on learning how our users work their way through Plan.nr. Iterate quickly and make sure that your users figure out what you want them to! 2. Writing, writing and more writing… blog posts, emails, slide...
Jan 16th
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Jan 5th
Plan.nr: Lost in a sea of facebook notifications →
plannrhq: There once was a time when notifications on facebook meant something, wall posts were exciting, game notifications were few and far between and event invitations were relevant. We are not the first to comment on facebook becoming a theatre of noise and we certainly won’t be the last….
Jan 4th
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