At Memonic we use a lot of Amazon's cloud services. I talked about our experiences with those at yesterday's Cloud Suisse conference in Zürich, Switzerland. The presentation (PDF, 1MB) is in German, but most of the information is in the graphics anyway.
I also created a Memonic Set for this presentation with some background material and additional links.
Thanks to the Cloud Suisse committee for organizing the interesting conference!
A couple of days ago the second StartupCamp took place in Basel. Toni and Dorian collected a couple of tips from their current experience and their previous startup gig at local.ch. These random hints complement the startup series published on this blog some months ago. Thanks to popular demand we also publish these hints (in German) over at Swissstartups, Dominik Tarolli's excellent blog on the Swiss Startup scene.
1 – Start with a simple plan
Building a company is tough enough. Don’t complicate your life with a complex plan. A simple plan stating a simple goal will help you, your future employees, any partner and any future investor to understand quickly what you’re at.
Example: At local.ch our game plan was a simple line: “Best local search in Switzerland”. At Memonic it’s: “Keep the Essential”.
Sure there’s plenty of explanation to each tagline. Yet the essential is summarized on one A4 Page.
2 – A few commonly shared rules
At both local.ch and Memonic we defined a kind of „company constitution“. Why? A few commonly shared rules expedite decision-making. You have a frame of reference for any decision.
It is not so relevant whether anyone on the team knows them by heart. Yet if the team is in a decision-making impasse, the rules help you to get out of this gridlock quickly with a minimum of emotions involved.
As part of the renowned Lift conference series the ThinkData Conference takes place in Lausanne on March 18. An afternoon on social, semantic, manipulation, real-time, and mobile data. Raphael Briner, the organizer and founder of Hyperweek, states a simple goal: "Learn from the data, letting it influence our ideas for the next iteration through the loop"
This past Saturday StartupCamp 2010 took place in Basel. A great event. Big hugs to the organizers!
Toni and Dorian did a presentation with 22 tips for startups. Due to popular demand you my fetch the slides in this Memonic Set.
Heute Abend spreche ich bei Reto Hartinger's Internet Briefing über neue Technologien für ein interessantes Web-Erlebnis. Am konkreten Beispiel zeige ich, welche Erfahrung wir mit Friend Feeding, Remix the Web, skalierbaren Infrastrukturen, etc. gemacht habe.
Die Slides sind hier hinterlegt (PDF, 205kb), ein Memonic Set mit den wesentlichen Links und Erkenntnissen ist hier zu finden.
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