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Using analytics to validate startup ideas for products?
If you're new here, you may want to first register and subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Today we look at using predictive analytics to validate startup ideas. This is part of our continuing Ask Acculation series; scroll down to find out how to get your analytics or start-up questions answered here. A version of this post was originally published elsewhere. “How do I validate my B2B idea? I have considered joining an accelerator, building a website prototype, or asking entrepreneur friends, but are there other ways? This is essentially one of the main goals of predictive analytics (what we do) when applied to business data: be able to evaluate your idea using fast, inexpensive tests, than transform that data to how the market might behave under “real” conditions. First off, the premise of the question is intriguing. We’ve seen social media memes that have gone viral “there is no B2B or B2C.… Read the restContract product managers for start-ups?
“Would you consider hiring a contract product manager? [Part of our continuing Ask Acculation series; we originally answered this question on a Q&A site. Scroll down to the bottom of this post to find out how you can get your start-up, analytics, or business management questions answered in a future version of this column.] We know of companies that hire contract Product Managers (PMs). Our CEO has interviewed a number of PMs over the years and otherwise been involved in PM hiring decisions as well as worked with closely with many PMs while leading engineering and scientific teams. First off, we might want to take a step back and explain to readers what a product manager does. They’re typical managers or senior executives within a product division of a company. Not every firm considers itself a “product company” and so not every company has a product division or product managers. For example, a company that considered itself primarily focused on sales or financial investments might not have many product managers.… Read the restCommon start-up hiring misconceptions
Startup hiring on a shoestring budget? Recently, we’ve gotten an awful lot of unsolicited requests for start-up advice, such as today’s question about startup hiring on a shoestring budget. (We’ve also received some solicited questions, as well. 🙂 ) We sometimes see the same mistakes being made over and over again by local entrepreneurs. We thought we’d cover some of these in our blog if it will help other start-ups out. If you have or are considering doing a start-up, scroll to the bottom of this article to see how you can get your questions answered in a future version of this column. Today, we’ll clear up some common misconceptions about the cost of engineers. This is an actual question we recently received via email from a local entrepreneur, one of many in our mail. We’ve removed the company name and altered some details for publication purposes. Start-up newbie: “I have an idea for a really awesome video-related mobile app!… Read the restNASA says 2.1MM deaths annually due to PM2.5 pollution.
[A version of this was original posted on our Facebook feed]. “2.1 million deaths occur worldwide each year as a direct result of a toxic type of outdoor air pollution known as fine particulate matter (PM2.5)” according to Environmental Research Letters study cited in a NASA article. (This is, of course, the type of dust pollution that our app lets take control of, especially in your home.) If you live in a major city anywhere in the world, you need to be concerned about premature death due to PM2.5 particulate dust, with the possible exception of people living in Florida (!). (The article actually compares current dust pollution levels to pre-industrial pollution levels.) China and India are, of course, off the scale, a concern for neighboring countries like Japan, South Korea, and the West Coast of the U.S. that get airflows from their cities. [We’ve noticed that air pollution in Los Angeles seems much worse in the winter than in the summer.… Read the restOh send in the trolls. Oh where are the trolls? There aren’t any trolls….
Send in the trolls…. Oh where are the trolls…. (With apologies to Stephen Sondheim) Our Miley Cyrus SQL Server Hadoop article got trolled on Twitter today. And we thought ‘yes! Finally! A troll.’ Then it turned out he had no Twitter readership. We admit there was a problem with the article. We didn’t list the fact that some people think Miley Cyrus and using SQL Server together with Hadoop are both somewhat messed up. Mea culpa. (Also, we did not come down nearly hard enough on Microsoft. The article goes on endlessly with its tepid praise for SQL Server. If you can’t afford Oracle and need an top-of-line SQL solution it is actually quite a cost effective solution. If you can afford the risk of running Windows, that is. Mainly we attack MySQL. We thought that we’d at least get some MySQL fans trolling us. No, some random Microsoft type apparently thought their honor had been grievously offended with our insufficient praise of Redmond.)… Read the restRecent Comments
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