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by ryancarson 16y ago
If you serve a niche vertical, this is NOT great. You don't need Apple.
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by ryancarson 16y ago
A lot of you are focusing on content subscriptions in your comments. I don't think that's the real story. I'm hugely concerned about all of us who are running SaaS apps that are complemented by an iOS app. We've worked our assess off to rea
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by ryancarson 16y ago
Don't move to SF at all. It never ceases to amaze me how 1st time web start-ups think moving there is the only way to succeed. Grrrr. We're located in Bath, England. That's right, not even London. We launched our new startup in June 2010 an
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by ryancarson 16y ago
Never say never. If potential firehose of traffic available on FB will far surpass what most companies can generate for their stand-alone sites. Once they realize they only have enough budget to put towards one area online, then they might
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by ryancarson 16y ago
The most powerful utility is being able to message your fans. It's like getting them on your email list, but even more powerful because sharing and commenting are viral and easy.
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by ryancarson 16y ago
Calling this a fad isn't helpful. There's a reason why this is happening and if it's a fad, so be it, but it's one we all should understand and act upon.
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by ryancarson 16y ago
Thanks! It'd be great to get LEGO to implement it.
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by ryancarson 16y ago
We tried hard to link into the store and it was impossible :( It's like LEGO hates the web. Sigh.
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by ryancarson 16y ago
You can edit it, once the algorithm brickifies it :)
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by ryancarson 16y ago
SOOOOOO much fun to build this :)
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by ryancarson 16y ago
Hope you all like this. Measuring our campaigns has made a HUGE difference to the number of customers we're getting.
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by ryancarson 16y ago
If you only acquire five new users a month, then something is seriously wrong.
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by ryancarson 16y ago
Marketing costs are only directly related to the new customers you acquire the same month (or sometimes the following month - as long as you're consistent). This isn't always strictly correct, but it should give you a good average CPA value
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by ryancarson 16y ago
Just updated the post, BTW.
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by ryancarson 16y ago
Appreciate the feedback. I learned how to calculate those numbers from Bessemer Ventures PDF, which I linked to in the article. Essentially you're taking the difference in CMRR for the quarter and annualizing it, then dividing by the market
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How to Track Six Key Metrics for Your Web App(thinkvitamin.com)
107 points by ryancarson 16y ago|9 comments
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by ryancarson 16y ago
It's automatically calculated based on churn. IE 10% churn would be 10 months (100/10 = 10)
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by ryancarson 16y ago
It's fun to share this, as figuring out these numbers has always been tricky. Feels good to finally open up the discussion and get these formulas figured out. Also been really fun to develop the spreadsheet as a community effort.
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by ryancarson 18y ago
Unfortunately the buyer wouldn't let me say. Needless to say, it was pretty nice :)
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by ryancarson 18y ago
I'm getting the impression that very few of you actually read the TechCrunch article. I stated very clearly that you only need three people (if that) to build an app like Matt. Carsonified has nine people so we used all of them to build the
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Building a web app in 4 days(carsonified.com)
2 points by ryancarson 18y ago|0 comments