Archive for November, 2009
November 30th, 2009
GigaOM and PEER 1 are sponsoring a outstanding free panel on “Future of Web Infrastructure for Startups” Thursday December 3 at GigaOM HQ, 217 2nd Street, Floor 4, San Francisco, CA 94105
For a startup, the infrastructure choices made in the early days have a lasting impact. Do you go for a hosting platform where you give up creative control but gain the promise of super-scalability? Or do you ensure you know your platform in detail by rolling out and maintaining your own hardware and software stacks? With the advent of cloud computing and recent trends toward hybrid hosting models, the choices and questions are growing each day.
We will discuss future trends of platforms and new options for startups as the concepts behind hosting evolve into more niche infrastructure-on-demand services. This session is for entrepreneurs, technologists and developers in the web arena who want to know which direction web infrastructure is taking next.
It’s an outstanding panel:
- Jason Hoffman, CTO, Joyent
- Byron Sebastian, CEO, Heroku
- Sebastian Stadil, founder, Scalr
- Robert Miggins, SVP, Serverbeach
- Tom Mornini, CTO and Co-Founder, Engine Yard
When: Dec. 3, 2009 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (Breakfast at 9 a.m.)
Free Registration: http://infrastructure.eventbrite.com
November 25th, 2009
Take a break from the four day Thanksgiving weekend and join us Friday for a Bootstrapper Breakfast in Mountain View at Red Rock Coffee. It may be a more intimate session for Red Rock but we have a dozen or so folks signed up so we will run at least one table. At this point there are effectively three work weeks left in 2009, three topics we might discuss depending upon interest are:
- lessons learned in 2009
- key objectives to accomplish before the end of the year
- plans for 2010.
Have a great Thanksgiving.
November 16th, 2009
If you haven’t registered yet please don’t drop in without one tomorrow, we are full.
Massimo Paolini will get our morning discussion rolling by talking about the importance of Web Analytics.
- What is Web Analytics?
- What benefits are gained from Web Analytics?
- A practical example of how Web Analytics work.
We will post a summary of the presentation for those unable to attend.
Update Nov 21: Massimo has posted a summary on his blog as “Bootstrapper Breakfast Presents Web Analytics.” What follows is an extract but read the whole thing.
Web analytics is all about understanding your customers, your site’s performance, and the results of your marketing efforts across all mediums. It’s not a one-time vaccine that allows you to dump all your efforts into your website one time and then leave it alone for the next three years. It’s an on-going process of making changes and then watching the results of those changes.[…] Specifically, businesses should use analytics to
- Know exactly where their clients are coming from
- Learn how much time/money it costs a company to find those clients
- Discover how satisfied people are with the course that is mapped for them
- See where companies are losing their customers
- Find out where to focus their time
November 11th, 2009
Kevin Rochowski e-mailed us that there will be a Startup Weekend Fri-Nov-20 at 6pm through Sun-Nov-22 at 10pm at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View.
Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects.
Several bootstrappers have attended earlier Startup Weekend events and found them to be energizing and educational. Register with the code “meetupdiscount” to save 30%