Other Customer Development Models. In “The Challenges of Measuring Non-Existent Markets” Scott D. Anthony outlines four principal challenges in measuring non-existent markets: Data does not yet exist. When a market doesn’t exist, there are no baseline market research reports or time-series data sets to analyze.Lack of comparable products. Without existing data, there is a natural tendency to look for good analogies. However, for truly new markets, there typically are no good historical analogies to look for to estimate uptake rate and penetration. I am aware of two other “customer development” models that are similar to Steve Blank’s “Four Steps to the Epiphany” that are designed to address early market exploration: Mark Leslie’s “Sales Learning Curve”SyncDev “Sell Design Build”See “Sell Design Build” White Paper Note Venchar’s Feb-8-2005 “Value of Customer Development” that points to a 2003 version of Steve Blank’s slides. Slide 28 defines an Earlyvangelist customer Slide 29 Customer Validation: Four Big Ideas.
Michael Ninness Answers InDesign CS5 Critics. Michael Ninness has held a number of different jobs since I met him fresh out of college in the early 90s — UI design at Adobe (he designed much of the current Creative Suite look and feel), product manager at Microsoft (on what later turned into a key app in the Microsoft Expression family), and a popular presenter/trainer at conferences globally. But it was as senior product manager on Adobe InDesign that he has influenced the largest number of designers around the world. He arrived on the InDesign team as CS4 was being completed, but quickly shifted to helping shape and build InDesign CS5.
Ninness very recently left Adobe to work as vice president of content at Lynda.com. However, he has so much time, energy, and sweat invested in CS5, he has taken time to respond personally to people’s concerns about this upgrade. I sent him a few questions, indicative of the type I’ve been hearing and reading since Adobe announced CS5 last week. His (rather extensive) answers are below. They weren? C-Notes. Disable Thumbnail Previews in Windows 7 or Vista Explorer. 15 Great Customer Development, Lean Startups, and Entrepreneurship Resources | Dave Concannon. The types of sites I read have slowly migrated away from pure technical sites talking about monkeying around with with code towards sites discussing business, customer development, marketing, and general startup concepts. Here’s a list of my favorite authors, blogs, podcasts, and forums dealing with these topics. Who else should I be listening to? Let me know in the comments.
Update: All the best Lean Startup and Customer Development resources in one place: Customer Development and Lean Startups Steve Blank Steve Blank is a successful startup veteran and MBA lecturer in the Haas School of business at UC Berkeley. . “. Eric Ries Eric Ries developed the Lean Startup methodology by combining concepts from the Toyota Production System (Lean Manufacturing), Agile Software Development, the OODA loop, and Steve Blank’s Customer Development model. Dave McClure Startup Marketing Forums. Anyone willing to share Hulu Plus subscription (I will pay for it) Splitflix: Share the Cost of Your Hulu and Netflix Subscriptions.
A bystander's contribution. Growth Sourcing: hacking Early Stage startups pipeline Today was Day 7 of the JFDI.2013B Bootcamp. The last two months our team worked our butts off—but we did it! Ten awesome teams joined our family on August 29th. The past 8 weeks I slept very little. My eyes were glued to the monitors, responding to hundreds of emails, checking on our funnel metrics, and working around the clock interviewing teams.
The recruitment exercises we went through taught me a lot. Sourcing for teams For an accelerator program like JFDI, we served a few groups. From the 1000+ that registered their interest, about 280 were people who pre-registered before our application opened, and 740 after the application went live on July 1st. While the application was live in July (July 1st—31st), we were able to acquire about 5.2% of the eyeballs that landed on the landing page. Channels Conversion rates: establishing benchmark Conversion rates: with Facebook Ads Facebook did bring us a lot of traffic (that we paid for). What are some crowdsourcing services similar to Amazon Mechanical Turk.
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The chart shows the approximate number of words in each chapter of Agile Web Development with Rails per week. This is the second edition of Agile Web Development with Rails. The Rails team recently released Rails 2. (If you’re looking for code or errata for the first edition of this book, you’ll find them here.) Out of Print This book is currently out of print. About this Book 719 pages Published: Release: P5.0 (2007-11-08) ISBN: 978-0-9776-1663-3 See the third edition for more information. About the Author As one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, Dave Thomas understands agility. Upcoming Author Events. Java vs. Ruby on Rails - It is a Dead Heat. Java and Ruby on Rails will be the focus of this article because they are what I know best...
For web technology entrepreneurs in the process of developing a new online service, there are five important choices that must be made regarding web technology. Some of the following choices have options that are mutually exclusive and others that are inseparable. I put server side language first, since in many cases it narrows down the options for the remaining choices: My Java Background From 2000 to 2006, I was a professional Java programmer with four Sun Certifications: Programmer for the Java 2 Platform, Web Component Developer, Developer for Java Web Services, and Enterprise Architect.
My Ruby on Rails Background From Fall 2006 to Spring 2008, I was a full-time MBA student performing the web programming and managing the hosting environments for the entrepreneurial ideas my classmates and I came up with. Java vs. Time to Market: Summary. Grooveshark code. The Tech Behind the New Grooveshark. I recently enjoyed the opportunity to help Grooveshark reinvent their web interface. There are many things I could say about this project, but if I were limited to a summary statement it would be that we stood on the shoulders of one giant open source community. This post is my thanks to the authors and contributors of the software used.
We probably could have done it without you, but I’m sure glad we didn’t have to! jQuery Yehuda Katz recently quipped that jQuery is becoming the standard library of the web. And why shouldn’t it? jQuery’s other strength is its popularity. In fact, Grooveshark had already chosen jQuery as a component before I joined the party. jQuery UI You may not notice jQuery UI in the mix at first glance, but it’s in there. the new Grooveshark The only widgets used were Autocomplete, Slider, and Datepicker, but we employed a bevy of its other features.
JavaScript MVC JMVC’s default templating engine is EJS, which will look familiar to Ruby/Rails developers. SlickGrid. Crazyegg. 50 of the Best Websites Developed Using Ruby on Rails — The Matchbox. Rails has come a long way in the last few years, from the preserve of a vocal minority of maverick developers, to one of the most popular web frameworks around. Its popularity is due to many things, but chief amongst them is the speed at which you can put together a site in Rails, as well as the intelligent and vibrant community that are involved in it. Whilst there are some well known success stories using Ruby on Rails out there, the sheer number and diversity of Rails apps is astounding. In celebration of that, and partly to satisfy our own curiosity, we thought offer our round up of some of the best rails sites out there. 1.
Basecamp An extremely popular, browser-based project collaboration tool. 2. The ubiquitous social networking site. 3. The world’s largest social publishing company. 4. A huge network of music, TV and movie fan clubs. 5. A great family tree building tool. 6. 7. 8. 9. What are some famous websites built in Django. Django From the Ground Up - video tutorials for building, python, episodes, screencasts, application, web, process, django.
Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example book and screencasts by Michael Hartl. Library. Our Courses. How to use Model-View-Controller (MVC) By Steve Burbeck, Ph.D. Author's note: This paper originally described the MVC framework as it existed in Smalltalk-80 v2.0. It was updated in 1992 to take into account the changes made for Smalltalk-80 v2.5. ParcPlace made extensive changes to the mechanisms for versions 4.x that are not reflected in this paper. Copyright (c) 1987, 1992 by S. Burbeckpermission to copy for educational or non-commercial purposes is hereby granted (TM)Smalltalk-80 is a trademark of ParcPlace Systems, Inc.
Introduction One of the contributions of Xerox PARC to the art of programming is the multiwindowed highly interactive Smalltalk-80 interface. If you run the graphics example in class Pen, you might well wonder why this "application" draws directly on the screen rather than in a window like the browsers, workspaces, or transcripts with which you are familiar. This paper is intended to provide the information essential for new Smalltalk-80 programmers to begin using MVC techniques in their own programs.
Views. Please stop asking how to find a technical co-founder. A 50/50 split means your non-technical contribution is worth the same as building the entire product, top to bottom, front to back. Having an idea for a certain software feature takes only a tiny fraction of the time it takes to implement that feature. So if you're just the "idea guy" or even the "vision guy," you're going to be putting in way, way less work than the technical guy. So, what more can you do for the company? Although building the product is a huge endeavor, there are many smaller, administrative tasks involved in running a business. M of these are dreadfully boring compared to building the product, but if you want to justify your 50%, you probably need to take them all on yourself.
Here are some of those things: - Accounting and taxes, whether you do it yourself or hire an accountant. - Dealing with lawyers. . - Getting money, one way or another. . - Paperwork: bills to pay, forms to fill out, forever and ever until your business ends. - Managing ad campaings. Please, please, please stop asking how to find a technical co-founder. Listen guys, I'm sorry. But, I just can't do it anymore. I can't keep having this conversation with every non-tech founder. It's just too painful. On you, on me, and everyone else that you've approached. I was once on the search for a technical co-founder, so I can empathize. But, seriously, Please stop. Back in the day, I remember going to my favorite startup mentor, Gregg Fairbrothers, and asking him for help finding a technical co-founder.
I can't help you with that, but all the good entrepreneurs seem to figure it out. Man, I still love that answer. You don't find a technical cofounder, you earn one. And that right there is why I get so bored of this question. When you meet people through all these various ways, realize that every technical person has one of three options: A.) How to Earn a Co-Founder Learn to CodeStop everything else that you're doing right now for your startup and learn to code. Find discussion of this post on Hacker News. iPhone Programming Fundamentals - Outlets and Actions. An understanding of outlets and actions is one of the first things you will need for iPhone programming. For someone coming from the .NET background, this is a concept that requires some time to get used to - the concepts are similar, but it is a different way of doing things. And so, in this article, I am going to show you what outlets and actions are. At the end of this article, you will have a solid understanding of how to create outlets and actions, and be on your way to creating great iPhone apps.
First, the basics So let's start by creating a really simple project to see how everything fits together. Figure 1 Creating a View-based Application project The View-based Application project template provides the quickest way to start writing an iPhone application. Figure 2 Examining the content of a View-based application project in Xcode In short, when the application is loaded, the main window loads the view represented by the OutletsAndActionsViewController.xib file. That's it! Summary.