Indexes
Benchmarking app store competitiveness & the cost of mobile app marketing Fiksu Indexes for February 2014: Cost per App Launch Index: February 2014 The Cost per App Launch Index tracks the cost of each repeat app launch over time, which focuses on engagement and life-time value of mobile users. In February, the Android Index dropped 25 percent to $0.12 from January’s $0.16 –a 33 percent decrease year-over-year. The iOS Index saw a slight increase to $0.17, a four percent increase from January's $0.16.
Logiciel business plan - Sage Business Plan Experts
Sage Business Plan Experts peut être utilisé indifféremment lors de la création, de la reprise ou du développement d’une activité. Il permet l’établissement d’un dossier financier prévisionnel (1 à 5 ans) complet : bilan, résultat, financement, trésorerie mensuelle, … Sage Business Plan Experts est conçu pour fonctionner avec n’importe quel outil de production comptable du marché.
A Deeper Look At Blackbox’s Data On Startup Failure And Its Top Cause: Premature Scaling [Infographic]
Earlier this week, we covered Blackbox, the young company responsible for creating The Startup Genome Report, an ongoing, collaborative R&D project designed to take a comprehensive dive into what makes Silicon Valley startups successful — and not. (Read our initial coverage here.) On Tuesday, we covered the company’s launch of what it calls the Startup Genome Compass, a benchmarking tool for startups that helps founders monitor their progress in different growth categories. Since then, more than 6,000 startups have signed up to use the Compass. Along with the diagnostic tool, Blackbox also released a new research report on the major causes of startup failure, including perhaps more significantly, the primary cause of startups kicking the bucket: Premature scaling.
Lean/Kanban - Crisp AB
Kanban is a lean approach to agile software development. Actually, Kanban means many things. Literally, Kanban is a Japanese word that means “visual card”. At Toyota, Kanban is the term used for the visual & physical signaling system that ties together the whole Lean Production system. Most agile methods such as Scrum and XP are already well aligned with lean principles.
How to name your startup
Choosing a name is one of the parts of a startup I find the most difficult. It’s also something you can easily get hung up on. We all know that the key thing is to move on to actually building something we can put in front of users. Here are 3 steps I would take if I was naming a new startup: 1.
Kanban development oversimplified: a simple explanation of how Kanban adds to the ever-growing Agile toolkit
Agile development is a value system — not a process. The Agile Manifesto is a short, 4 lines, set of phrases that indicate what’s important to those practicing Agile development. These statements are the “mom and apple pie” statements for agilists. There’s no specific processes specified — however over the last several years common practice has emerged. (For more on agile value system and culture, read Agile is Culture, Not Process.) Common Agile Practice takes the best from the buffet
The Anatomy of a YC Pitch
The other night I had an opportunity to attend Demo Day at Y Combinator. It was a fantastic full frontal assault of entrepreneurial energy. 43 pitches, 2 min each back to back for well over 2 hours. It was clear from the outset that these teams were trained to give a certain kind of pitch with their allotted time.
Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Stanford, Spring 2012
Blake Masters Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Stanford, Spring 2012 Update: Peter and I have written a book, based on these notes. Zero to One is a #1 NYT Bestseller, with more than 2.5 million copies sold worldwide. Order it here.
How to build a startup - by Steve Blank
When does the course begin? This class is self paced. You can begin whenever you like and then follow your own pace.
Introducing rollout: Condionally roll out features with redis
Aug 01, 2010 When we work on new features, we like to push them to production regularly. We've found that long-lived branches tend to introduce more defects than short-lived ones.
Why Business Models No Longer Last
What happens when technology cycles become shorter than corporate decision cycles? That’s the question I posed in an earlier post about Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram Saul Kaplan takes it even further in his new book The Business Model Innovation Factory , when he points out that the concept doesn’t just apply to technology, but business models as well. That, if anything, is a much more difficult problem.
Business Models on the Web
Business models are perhaps the most discussed and least understood aspect of the web. There is so much talk about how the web changes traditional business models. But there is little clear-cut evidence of exactly what this means. In the most basic sense, a business model is the method of doing business by which a company can sustain itself -- that is, generate revenue.
