Archive for October, 2008
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Just a little note... If you happen to run django + wsgi + apache and want to access your site via https, you will definitely need this.
Problem: A site, deployed on client's server redirects all https requests to http.
Initially we've thought that a misconfigured apache is to be ...
Posted in Microentry, Software Development, Django, Python | 2 Comments »
Friday, October 24th, 2008
Thanks to DenisM pointing out that the userbase model I've presented in the last post constantly underestimates your userbase.
Glad that someone read that deep :)
Basically the models counts only for users that came only during current month and considers churn rate to be a 100%.
This is easily fixable by addiing ...
Posted in Startuplet, Business, Startups | 2 Comments »
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Ok, now goes the final part of the startuplet financial model review.
It bothers with the crucial question: how much we'll have users and where they come from.
Here you might see a simple yet powerful userbase model.
It defines three distinct kinds of visitors:
ambient, that come to your site "as is", for ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Image via WikipediaNow about a simple revenue model we're using for our startuplets.
Google spreadsheet
The first line of "Revenue" tab lists all our potential sources of revenue:
Premium users
AdSense
Lead generation - some other, more niche revenue stream that depends on number of ad impressions but pays better than AdSense
To be able to ...
Posted in Software Development, Business, Startups | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Books:
High Tech Start Up, Revised and Updated: The Complete Handbook For Creating Successful New High Tech Companies
The Four Steps to the Epiphany - the Epiphany customer development process
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
People:
Dmitry Repin - one of instructors of "Start in Garage"; site in ...
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Since a positive NPV is an important for a startuplet, at least in our version, I'll describe it in more details.
Here's an expenses model in a google spreadsheet.
So far it's quite simple...
We have page "Hypotheses" page with 4 variables so far:
monthly discount rate (36%yr)
development hour price ($30 per billable hour)
base ...
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Following up the topic of startuplets...
The site outlines just the basic idea, we're using a little bit detailed checklist:
40 hours of development:
that is taken exactly; it doesn't include idea polishing, financial modeling, screen drafting, et cetera
it's taken seriously: if the product isn't usable after 40 development hours invested - the ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Image via WikipediaSomeone clever said "Constraints do liberate". The only thing to decide is the right constrains.
Hence, a startuplet definition:
Startuplet is a venture software project that
takes 40 hours of development or less from idea to first user
has detailed financial revenue model
comes online within 1 calendar month from start
gets a ...
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