Coders University

When you build an initial version of a product or service and give it to early users, the metrics that come out are the baseline.

For a company to be viral, sharing the companies product/service has to be done as a consequence of using the product.

Engineers look at the problem and find the best solution to that problem with whatever tools and systems are needed.

The complexity of UX in a product goes through three stages:

People are normally very good at optimising their work.

Just In Time scaling is the opposite of premature optimisation, why build something that can support 1 million users, or even 1000 users…

The goal of a startup is to validate a new business model / strategy as quickly as possible.

The definition of the lean mentality is to reduce waste. That’s it.

The three engines of growth:

Metric driven features (what people actually want)

I came across a story recently of an artist that moved to Japan to study the countries unique styles of art. When they got there they were…

In his book Creativity Inc, Ed Catmull discusses his techniques of managing creative people in an uncertain environment (the film…

In 2009 Disney released the hand drawn animation “The Princess and the Frog” — the first traditionally animated film since 2004’s “Home on…

The Kobayashi Maru is a fictional test in the Star Trek TV series in which a cadet is put in a lose-lose situation to see how they behave…

When you first start a company your ROI metrics are pretty low, and from an investment point of view, you’re better having no revenue than…

To get started, read these:

Peter Thiel has a concept of Last Mover Advantage, for example companies like Google (the last search engine) and Microsoft (the last…

When trying to optimise a product/service experience (CRO) you can find yourself at a local maxima — the best conversion you are going to…

High growth startups are companies that expect to go through a period of hyper-growth. They don’t serve tens of customers they serve…