Viewing by month: February 2010
How to Take Your Startup to the Next Level - Aaron Patzer at FOWA
Posted on Feb 24, 2010
Aaron Patzer, the CEO of Mint.com, was the next speaker at FOWA Miami 2010. He shared his experiences building Mint from the ground up as a company ("How to take your startup to the next level"). He described the session as how he turned an idea into $170 million dollars in 3 years (referring to the recent acquisition by Intuit). This was, in my opinion, one of the best talks of the day.Take
Continue Reading →Lessons Learned Building Reddit - Steve Huffman at FOWA Miami
Posted on Feb 24, 2010
After the break, Steve Huffman of Reddit came on stage to talk about the lessons his team learned building Reddit from an engineering point of view. Reddit is a social news site where users submit links and other items and users can vote them up and down. It was founded in June 2005 right after the founders got out of college and was acquired by Conde Nast at October 2007. Steve left Reddit just this last fall. The following are the lessons he says he learned (the hard way) while building Reddit.
Continue Reading →The 5 Metrics You Ought to be Tracking - Neil Patel at FOWA Miami
Posted on Feb 24, 2010
The third speaker at FOWA Miami was Neil Patel of KISSmetrics who discussed analytics which Ryan Carson described as a thing he views as particularly challenging. Neil's session is about the five metrics you ought to be tracking.
Continue Reading →Advanced JavaScript - John Resig at FOWA Miami
Posted on Feb 23, 2010
Next up at FOWA Miami 2010 is John Resig, the creator of jQuery. John wanted to look at techniques such as:
- improve performance
- improve accessibility
- reduce complexity
- improve design
10 Things That Make a Great Web App - Fred Wilson at FOWA Miami 2010
Posted on Feb 23, 2010
The Colony theater is completely full, with what looks to be about
250
people (perhaps more), for FOWA Miami. The event started slightly late
as everyone filed into the theater. First up, Ryan Carson of Carsonified
who run the event shared what to expect from the day, which was helpful
especially for first-time attendees like myself.
First speaker
is Michael Schneider of MobileRoadie to demo the FOWA iPhone and Android
app. Allows you to share tweets, see photos, see the schedule, and see
other attendees. MobileRoadie allows you to create iPhone and Android
applications with content management. The Android thing was announced
today.
Fred Wilson is described by Ryan Carson as one of the "smartest investors in the industry" with 15 years investing in web applications and services. He's discussing 10 things that make a great web app.
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