Fast Cheap Barely In Control Web2 Expo
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The document outlines 11 lessons learned from the experience of building SlideShare into a leading platform for sharing presentations. It emphasizes the importance of speed, focus on execution over ideas, building products for own use, using metrics to guide decisions, hiring design engineers, finding communities, and outsourcing non-core functions. Key recommendations include making the app useful by solving problems well, prioritizing speed, listening to metrics over loud voices, focusing on users not competition, and not spending too much on business development.
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Fast Cheap Barely In Control Web2 Expo
- 1. Rashmi Sinha, SlideShare Fast, cheap and barely in control: 10 lessons from SlideShare
- 5. Taking over the world (one PowerPoint at a time!)
- 6. 1. Make your app useful
- 7. Solve one problem really well
- 9. 2. Speed is imperative
- 10. Why startups need speed?
- 11. Small & fast
- 14. 3. Ideas are dime a dozen
- 16. 4. What to build
- 17. We build products we use ourselves
- 18. 37signals: Build less
- 21. How to double traffic ?
- 22. Anatomy of a feature launch
- 23. 5. How to Launch
- 24. The Alpha Feedback to the embed No publicity Browser compatibility issues
- 27. Year 1 Open to all Launch Invite only
- 28. 6. Focus on your users, not your competition
- 29. 7. Don’t spend too much time on Biz Dev
- 30. 8. Use metrics to make decisions
- 33. Get team buy-in for metrics
- 34. Metrics and the danger of local minima
- 35. 9. Hire Design Engineers
- 36. 10. Find your community
- 38. 11. Outsource what is not your core competency
Editor's Notes
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/7210687@N08/3042350908/
- Fast, Cheap and Out of Control is a 1997 film by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris . It profiles four subjects with extraordinary careers: a lion trainer , a topiary sculptor, a mole rat specialist, and a robot scientist.
- Why choose Describe three popularity methods
- Start May 06 > Beta > Launch Oct 06 > Grow > Grow more > Angel funding Dec 07 > Series A Apr 08 > Grow more
- Natual advantage
- What type of hosting Developers love it Its good for fast, agile teams We hit scalability issues, but Twitter hitting them first! So far, its been solvable Not enough CPU. Doubled spend on machines. Split Web servers from App servers As system gets load, some parts of system get used more, code needs to be optimized Database scaling issues currently Solving problems as they arise, but architecting for scaling Dedicated hosting provider is compromise Having tech resources outside organization you can call on Reduces initial expense Good sys admins harder to find than good devs
- MindCanvas: Could sell into market SlideShare: Understood market
- Customer requests? At any given time List of 15 to-do features Many bugs to fix Customer requests
- slidecasting
- http://rashmisinha.com/2006/08/08/my-slides-for-webvisions-designing-for-social-sharing/
- Engineers and designers can both resist – for diff reasons