Talk from WordCamp San Diego Business track

1. Joshua Strebel - @strebel
Startups are like playing
simultaneous games of chess,
against the best opponents in
the world, and you don't even
have all the pieces.
Aaron Levie @levie
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2. Joshua Strebel - @strebel
Joshua Strebel
• Founder of Page.ly - The first, &
most secure Managed WordPress
Hosting service.
• Husband, Father, Smart Ass.
• WordPress User since 1.2
Sunday, March 24, 13

3. Joshua Strebel - @strebel
My ideas suck
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4. Joshua Strebel - @strebel
Except this one
2 notable exceptions
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5. Joshua Strebel - @strebel
Ideas suck until proven otherwise.
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6. Joshua Strebel - @strebel
Truthiness is a quality characterizing a "truth" that a
person claims to know intuitively "from the gut" or because
it "feels right" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual
examination, or facts.
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7. Joshua Strebel - @strebel
The Scientific Method
The systematic observation, measurement, and experiment,
and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
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8. Joshua Strebel - @strebel
Iteration means the act of repeating a process with the aim of
approaching a desired goal, target or result. Each repetition of
the process is also called an "iteration," and the results of one
iteration are used as the starting point for the next iteration.
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9. Joshua Strebel - @strebel
Ideas suck less with each cycle.
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10. Joshua Strebel - @strebel
• BestPartyEver 1/2/3 > Bailed
• Flare9 > Pagely
• Build your own Website > Managed
WordPress Hosting
• Theme chooser > Themepacks > No
themes
• Shared Single Servers > Load
Balanced Cloud
• A/B testing
• PressNomics 1 > PressNomics 2
MEASURE EVERYTHING
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11. Joshua Strebel - @strebel
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12. Joshua Strebel - @strebel
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13. Joshua Strebel - @strebel
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14. Joshua Strebel - @strebel
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15. Joshua Strebel - @strebel
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16. Joshua Strebel - @strebel
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17. Joshua Strebel - @strebel
Thank You
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