Amazon sent us an early valentine’s day letter this morning:
Dear AWS Customer,
As you know, we are constantly working to drive our costs down and become more operationally efficient. We then pass on those cost savings to our customers in the form of lower prices. Today, we are pleased to announce that we are lowering AWS [...]

Core Market

There comes a time in the life cycle of a failing product where the progenitors, in spite of their best intentions to develop a strong set of features the customer wants, find themselves scratching their heads asking the million-dollar question: “Why won’t you come?”

“Look at all these features. Now, why won’t you use them?”

There’s [...]

It takes me about a month to read any given edition of the New Yorker. Given that it’s a weekly periodical, there is no satisfaction in “completing” an issue. Instead of turning the final page and throwing it in the recycle bin, I find them stacking in the nooks of my house and work wherever [...]

Like the food pyramid, only richer.

Achieve “market fit” product status before worrying about the rest. Which is to say, prove that there is a market for what you offer by getting a small but dedicated audience willing to pay to use it.

The most compelling KPI for market fit products is essentially customer satisfaction: the number [...]

Social Mention – a social media buzz search engine and discovery platform, recently launched a widget maker that will allow you to post a real-time buzz tracker to your internal wiki, public facing blog, etc. It’s a customizable widget that works rather nicely. Give it a whirl and let me know what you’re tracking. We’re [...]