From The Founders of .Co, Pop.Co Is A Fast, Simple Way To Launch Businesses Online. The company behind the .co domain has been working to associate .co websites with startups and innovation.
Now its founders are trying to make it as easy as possible to start a business online with a new company called Pop.co. Basically, Pop.co is a bundle of online services that should remove any barrier between coming up with a cool idea and building a web presence around that idea. This approach is particularly important in a future where entrepreneurs run “three or four micro-businesses at a time, easy come, easy go, and you don’t have to keep the domain forever,” said CTO Tom Lackner — he suggested you should even be able to set all this up from your smartphone.
Lackner and CEO Juan Diego Calle gave me a quick demo of Pop.co. That approach, Lackner said, means that it’s easy to get started, but when someone needs a more sophisticated publishing system, “We don’t want to build a 200 person team to take on WordPress — I want to link to those other services.” Engineering Management: Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? - Quora - Aurora.
How Google Sets Goals. Goal setting within a startup or company is essential to success.
But there are a number of different approaches to attaining these goals both within teams and individually. And what better framework to follow than Google’s strategy around establishing goals. This gem is part of the Google Ventures Startup Lab‘s body of content, explained by current Googlers, and other technology execs; aimed at helping startups navigate things like A/B testing, holding productive meetings and more. While most of these talks are private, Google Ventures is gradually posting a number of these discussions online for all entrepreneurs to access. In the video above, Google Ventures partner Rick Klau, who runs the Startup Lab with Ken Norton, covers the value of setting objectives and key results (OKRs) and how this has been done at Google since 1999.
Choosing The Right Business Model For Your App. Ilja Laurs4/15/11 Today nobody questions that the apps economy is going to be big.
Very big. At least four different researchers predict the apps industry will bring in $30-40 billion dollars a year in just three to five years. Just to put this into perspective, the entire music industry is estimated to generate $25 billion a year. But which specific business model will capture this massive revenue? There are today four major ways to make money with an app: 1) Paid. 2) Ad supported. 3) Virtual goods. 4) Subscriptions.
There are of course more business models out there (cross selling, data collection, and many others) as well as combinations of two and more models, but the above four are the major generic models. Now, how do you decide which model will work best for you?