Would you spend $1.5 million in a domain name?
What leads someone to spend $1.5 million in a single domain? SumoMe has recently did that buying sumo.com They think big and they spend big.
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Jorge Alvarez
I write about artificial intelligence, machine learning, and web development focused on SaaS applications. Join me as I explore the intersection of AI and modern web development.
...and I'm a Ruby on Rails fanboy.
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peer-to-peer rewards as a way of recognition at work
In most companies recognition usually comes “from above” but when you receive recognition from one of your co-workers then things change, you feel proud and happy. Your self-esteem increases as do your sense of belonging to the team.
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How to manage remote workers. Learning from the experts.
Hiring people is not an easy process. Hiring remote workers makes things even harder. For many companies “Seeing is believing” and they find disturbing the fact that some of their workers will never set foot in the office.
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How to give feedback to your project manager
Status reports are a very good source of information for project managers, as long as they are frequent (ideally every week). For employees, this is a good opportunity to indicate what can be improved and what is working fine. Once you get into the routine writing a status report should take no more than 5 minutes.
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Team management for startups and distributed teams
Managing a team with remote workers or managing distributed teams requires that communication should be fluid. It is very easy (and dangerous) to lose contact when people are not one desk/room/floor away.
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Meteor reactive on updates but not on inserts
As soon as an activity was modified on the server the client was updated but new activities although were inserted correctly in the database were not updated on the client.
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Meteor tools: Shell - server console
Debugging Meteor is easier since Meteor 1.0.2 Now we can use a console similar to the one we have available on the client. You just need to write meteor shell and all the power of a server-side console is available to you.
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Son felices tus empleados?
Es una pregunta que en las últimas semanas me he hecho unas cuantas veces. Una de las responsabilidades de mi nuevo trabajo en [Conferize]( es la de gestionar un equipo de per...
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Estrategias de crecimiento de aplicaciones web saas Parte 2
La captación de nuevos usuarios es la estrategia predominante durante la fase inicial en la vida de una aplicación web en modo SaaS. En esta segunda parte analizamos en que consiste.La captación de usuarios consiste en atraer nuevos usuarios potenciales a nuestra aplicación y lograr convertirlos en usuarios de pago. El principal problema de la captación es que consume muchos recursos.
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Estrategias de crecimiento de aplicaciones web saas Parte 3
- **Viralidad.** Existen tres tipos de viralidad: - **Inherente.** Se llama así a la viralidad que está integrada en el producto. Por ejemplo: Una aplicación de facturación online ofrece la opción de...
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Estrategias de crecimiento de aplicaciones web saas Parte 1
Cuando desarrollamos una aplicación web en modo SaaS existen únicamente dos formas de crecimiento:Captar nuevos usuarios y mantener a los ya existentes.La fase de madurez en la que se encuentre nuestra aplicación definirá que estrategia es mejor.
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Estadísticas de uso del blog - Resumen 2013 - Fidelización
Una vez que hemos captado visitantes y hemos conseguido que hagan alguno de los objetivos para los que creamos la web el tercer paso es la fidelización. Conseguir que nos recuerden y que quieran volver a visitarnos.
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