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Mike Lynch and his lessons learned

Last week I went to talk by founder Mike Lynch founder of Autonomy, a very successful software business that got acquired by Hewlett Packard last year. Since that acquisition, Mike has been involved in all kinds of battles with HP and its CEO Meg Whitman. Luckily that’s not what this talk focused on. Instead, Mike shared…
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Developing my own product – Creating a Minimum Viable Product

Now that my efforts to develop the HipHopListings iOS app myself had not provided me with the desired results, I decided to seek help. I got as far as creating a basic app version of my existing HipHopListings (‘HHL’) blog and installing it onto my phone. However, it became pretty clear very quickly that Apple…
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How supermarkets are becoming entertainment platforms

Over the past year or so supermarket giants such as Sainsbury’s and Tesco have started venturing into entertainment content. A good example is supermarket giant Tesco which acquired We7 (digital music) and Blinkbox (video on demand) last year. Its UK competitor Sainsbury bought online entertainment platform Global Media Vault and Anobii (eBooks) around the same time. I wondered about…
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“Lean Analytics” (Book Review)

Data is key. Analytics are key. But what does one need to measure? And why? Experienced entrepreneurs Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz wrote “Lean Analytics”, which came out last month. “Lean Analytics” is a great book for anyone who wishes to learn more about validating an idea, building the right product and measuring growth. In…
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What to make of Twitter #music

Last week it finally happened: Twitter launched its own music service in Twitter #music. This is “a new service that will change the way people find music, based on Twitter.” Like so many other music and content-oriented services out there, Twitter is trying to crack the holy grail that is ‘discovery’. Here are three reasons why…
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Creating my own product – How to develop it?

So I had spent some time thinking about my product vision and assessing my product idea, but I now had to work out how to best a develop a basic mobile app. I’d been dreading this moment since I don’t have a a development background. Where to start? Which operating system to start off with?…
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