After having bunch of discussions at #sctest, #pykyiv and privately, I decided to post a distilled version of Customer Discovery steps by The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steven Blank
Here it is. Just execute it:
Customer Discovery
State Hypotheses
Product Hypothesis
features
benefits
intellectual property
dependency analysis
product delivery schedule
total cost of ownership/adoption
Customer & Problem ...
Thought recently about an A/B testing tool to use in our django projects...
My requirements are:
Survive model changes. That's other version of the app under test may use a different schema or totally different db. I guess that automatically rules out plain middleware approach..
May target specific category of visitors/users. ...
Welcome, reviework.com.
This is a simple code discussion service working with git repositories and, through git adapters - with any other VC supported. SVN would be added, of course, the first.
Right now we are using actively it in our own internal development and working with few selected teams to polish ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
