Unsolicited Business Advice from Carol Roth. StartupLi.st Interviews. On Startups by Dharmesh Shah. Hi, Niclas Johansson | APSense.com. Case Study: 5 Factors Behind One Startup’s Rapid Growth. Bizzy, a personalized local business recommendation engine, announced yesterday that it hit 100,000 favorites in just 10 weeks since its relaunch — that is, its members have supplied 100,000 recommendations on their favorite places to eat, shop and play.
Bizzy is a service, accessible via its website and iPhone app, that recommends local businesses based on a user's favorites, as identified by answering questions about their favorite local spots, such as restaurants, nightclubs and shops. While 100,000 favorites doesn't initially seem like a big deal, it's important to note the speed with which this data has accrued, especially as compared to the early stages of other recommendation engines for local businesses, such as Yelp. Founded in 2004, Yelp has become top-of-mind for users looking for local business reviews, having been brainstormed as "the yellow pages for the 21st century.
" By the summer of 2006, Yelp reached 100,000 reviews, the key data point for its system. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Entrepreneurship Corner: Stanford University's free podcasts and video clips of entrepreneurial thought leaders and innovators from Silicon Valley. (Saving...) (Saving...) How to bring a product to market / A very rare interview with Sean Ellis.
Nivi · December 14th, 2009 Sean Ellis recently sat down with us and explained how to bring products to market. You should listen to this interview for ideas on how to get to product/market fit, how to measure fit, and how to survey your users so you can improve fit. If you don’t know Sean from his blog or tweets, he lead marketing from launch to IPO filing at LogMeIn and Uproar. His firm, 12in6, then worked with Xobni (Khosla), Dropbox (Sequoia), Eventbrite (Sequoia), Grockit (Benchmark)… the list goes on. 12in6 “helps startups unlock their full growth potential by focusing on the core value perceived by their most passionate users.”
This is the first time Sean has done an interview on the record. I’m really psyched he’s making his insights public — this interview is a must-listen. We’ve broken the interview into two parts: 1) before fit and 2) after fit. This inteview is free — thanks to KISSmetrics We’re bringing this interview to you free, thanks to the kind support of KISSmetrics. Home. YouNoodle | Home.