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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

I often talk with entrepreneurs who are kicking around their next idea. Sometimes they’re working full time at a company or sometimes they’ve already left their employer and they’re bouncing around ideas with friends. Even if you keep it dormant for 2 years while you work on your idea. Not worth it.

Startup 365
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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

SoCal Delicious

In it, I cover some more general philosophical ideas about how to approach what to measure and what not to measure. As you create prototypes of your product, you should throw up some free, simple analytics to get you some rough ideas of what’s happening inside the functionality. &# This blog is to address these questions.

Startup 29
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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. That means, the Web server has to deal with the same load as with a GET request , it just deletes the content portion (the compelety formatted HTML page) when responding, after counting its size to send the Content-Length response header.