How to Become an Early Riser It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. – Aristotle Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I rarely went to bed before midnight, and I’d almost always sleep in late. I usually didn’t start hitting my stride each day until late afternoon. But after a while I couldn’t ignore the high correlation between success and rising early, even in my own life. … and the next morning, I got up just before noon. Hmmm… I tried again many more times, each time not getting very far with it. It’s hard to become an early riser using the wrong strategy. The most common wrong strategy is this: You assume that if you’re going to get up earlier, you’d better go to bed earlier. It seems there are two main schools of thought about sleep patterns. The second school says you should listen to your body’s needs and go to bed when you’re tired and get up when you naturally wake up.
How to design your Business Model as a Lean Startup? « Methodolo If you spend time exploring innovation methodologies and models, you know that configuration of such frameworks largely apply new ideas, assembly and build upon previous work (hat off to science). I have come to explore conformity of two emerging frameworks; the Business Model Ontology by Alex Osterwalder and the Lean Startup methodology by Eric Ries. The result, the Lean Startup and Business Model Canvas mashup is illustrated below. With the Business Model Ontology Osterwalder proposes a single reference model based on the similarities of a wide range of business model configurations. On methodology, Eric Ries coins the Lean Startup, a practical approach for creating and managing startups using principles of Steven Blank‘s Customer Development methodology alongside Agile Development methodologies. The Lean Startup Business Model Pattern adopts principles of the Lean Startup (i.e. agile development and customer development) with the building blocks of the Business Model Canvas.
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Ergonomie, usabilité et rassurance sont encore les parents pauvres des sites e-commerce : CONSULTANT E-COMMERCE Ludovic Passamonti, blog de conseil e-commerce De retour du salon e-commerce de Genève, qui a été une réussite pour sa première édition. L’endroit était agréable, très facile d’accès, et la salle offrait une vue splendide sur le stade du Servette de Genève. Les grands éditeurs de plateforme e-commerce étaient là, des moins connus aussi comme RBS Change, qui n’ont pas manquer pas d’éveiller mon intérêt, et que je vous présenterai plus en détail dans un prochain article. J’étais présent pour animer un stand de démonstration « audit de site e-commerce » qui a connu un beau succès avec une quinzaine d’audits réalisés dans la journée. Par contre, le bilan de ces audits est assez mitigé, et je suis étonné de voir encore en 2011 des sites e-commerce récents qui ont été conçus en dépit de nombreuses règles d’ergonomie et d’usabilité, qui relèvent parfois juste du bon sens, quand on veut vendre en ligne. Cela touche aussi bien des sites générant plusieurs milliers de commandes par mois que des petits sites avec une dizaine de commandes.
The Lean Startup Wiki / FrontPage Lean Startup Intensive: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010 - Co-pro Based in Palo Alto, California, Jean-Francois “Jeff” Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed stage investors in Web 2.0 startups. Since 2004, Jeff has invested in more than 70 consumer Internet companies in areas like social media, communities, search, gaming or consumer infrastructure, almost exclusively in Silicon Valley. With over 20 years of operational, entrepreneurial and venture capital experience, Jeff is able to add relevant perspective and value to his companies as they grow from inception to maturity, and hopefully, success. In 2007, Jeff was recognized as one of the 13 Web 2.0 King Makers by (late) Business 2.0, and in 2008, BusinessWeek named him one of The 25 Most Influential People on the Web. He is often noted for his investments in categories such as “passion-centric communities” or online gaming, or for having sold five of his Web 2.0 startups to the likes of Yahoo, AOL or Hearst Interactive. Web site
300 conseils pour développer votre e-commerce en 2011 (partie 1/2) : Consultant web et Expert e-commerce - Ludovic Passamonti Peu avant Noël, l'excellent blog américain Get Elastic a publié un document contenant plus de 300 astuces pour améliorer et développer son e-commerce en 2011. Malheureusement, ce document est en anglais, et j'ai bien conscience qu'il a peu de chance de trouver un écho auprès des e-commerçants français, malgré sa grande richesse. Donc, pour bien commencer l'année, je vous propose une traduction intégrale de ce document, légèrement adapté sur certains points qui me semblaient nécessiter un peu plus d'explications. J'ai scindé le document en 2 articles, dont voici le premier de la série. Avec ça, votre todo list de 2011 va être bien remplie ;-) Je vous souhaite une excellente année 2011, pleine de réussites pour vos projets e-commerce. Rendez-vous au prochain article pour les 150 derniers conseils.
Shannon Clark - Google+ - Nearly a decade ago I worked on a few of these standards…