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Archive for January 2009

Internet Population Passes 1 Billion

In Trends on 25 January 2009 with Comments

As reported by ComScore, the world-wide internet population has surpasses 1 billion as of December 2008. While it is quite a big number, the data also mean another 5 billion people are not online. Having grown up with internet since elementary school, I cannot imagine life with out it. ComScore broke the data down to [...]

O’Reilly: Work On Stuff That Matters

In Ideas on 19 January 2009 with Comments

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The Customer Development Model

In Startup on 17 January 2009 with Comments

It’s pretty clear now that “getting users” isn’t a simple thing to do. I came across a presentation that addresses just this. It claims that startup’s focus too much of their early attention on product development, and not enough “customer development.” As a result, startups fail not because engineering was broken, but because their offering [...]