Cyril Moutran
GP at @makerscamp. Cofounder at @feedly and @FriendlyApps
A Warning About SaaS Lifetime Value Calculations
When I first heard about the Lifetime Value (LTV) to Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) metric many years ago, the economics major in me got very excited. I was already well into the software-as-a-service (SaaS) financing business at the time, and this ratio seemed like
It's Time For an RSS Revival
After years of letting algorithms make up our minds for us, the time is right to go back to basics.
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Poli Lopes"Quanto tempo vai demorar até que o seu feed do Facebook esteja tão cheio de conteúdo promovido, decisões algorítmicas bizarras e lembretes de carrinho de compras baseados em cookies que você ganhou?"
Poli Lopes"A mídia social tem apelo de massa porque é simples de entender e usar, com pouco ou nenhum desafio envolvido para o usuário. O RSS é um jogo totalmenteSee more diferente, em que o principal objetivo é que o usuário final pesquise e encontre fontes de informações valiosas, além de limpar periodicamente o feed de notícias de ruídos irrelevantes."
Intel Chips Have Memory Access Design Flaw and Fix Could Lead to…
A serious design flaw and security vulnerability has been discovered in Intel's CPUs that will require an update at the operating system level to...
RunKit is Node prototyping
Forum Blog Docs Explore Sign in Full node environment, right in the browser with every npm package already pre-installed Create a Notebook RunKit notebooks completely remove the friction of trying
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Ethereum scalability research and development subsidy programs
The Ethereum community, key developers and researchers and others have always recognized scalability as perhaps the single most important key technical challenge that needs to be solved in order for blockchain applications to reach mass adoption. Blockchain scalability is difficult primarily because a typical
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How to decrease your Gradle build time by 65%?
Gradle is very powerful build system. It handles the very complex process of building .dx files from java source code, merging all the…
Why CSS Grid is better than Bootstrap for creating layouts
CSS Grid is a new way of creating layouts on the web. For the first time ever we have a proper layout system available natively in the…
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stephen west is creating Podcasts
Follow stephen west on Patreon: Read posts by stephen west on the world's largest platform enabling a new generation of creators and artists to live out their passions!
4 Tools to Pick Your Chart Colors
These are the quick and simple tools I use to pick colors to represent data.
Visualizing Algorithms
June 26, 2014 Mike Bostock The power of the unaided mind is highly overrated… The real powers come from devising external aids that enhance cognitive abilities. —Donald Norman Algorithms are a…
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In Marketplaces
The Rise of Non “VC compatible” SaaS Companies
Hi there, we’re Point Nine Capital a VC firm focused on SaaS and marketplaces. If you want to be kept informed of our new posts you can…
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Runway
A free, visual tool to help startup founders understand, manage and extend their cash runway.
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Antonio Damasio: INET Keynote Address entitled Human Decisions
Antonio Damasio, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, University of Southern California delivers keynote entiteld Human Decisions at the INET's Paradigm...
How to build your own VPN if you’re (rightfully) wary of commercial…
While not perfect, either, cloud hosting providers have a better customer data record.
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Feedly’s reader app now caters to knowledge workers with launch…
Following the death of Google Reader several years ago, there was a brief, renewed interest in alternative RSS readers – news readers that let you track updates from blogs or other websites in a…
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Friendly - Product Hunt
Friendly - Take control of your newsfeed & love Facebook again. (Android, iPhone, and Facebook) Read the opinion of 8 influencers.
Lossless Web Navigation with Trails
Since the early 2000’s, the desktop metaphor of tabbed browsing has dominated the way we navigate the web. With Browser.html, a Mozilla…
All the Venture Capital & Fundraising Bloggers You Should be Following
As Joshua Levy and I continue work on The Open Guide to Startup Fundraising, we’ve been drawing from all the incredible bloggers who have…
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A guide to successful Design Handoffs
A comprehensive walkthrough to help Designers handoff their designs effectively. Also includes a few tips & tricks to simplify the process.
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In Andrew Chen
What's next in growth?
[I recently gave the keynote at the largest startup conference in Australia, StartCon. Many awesome growth folks were there, including Elena Verna at SurveyMonkey, Nate Moch at Zillow, Sean Ellis at GrowthHackers, etc. My talk is below, with links to my talk, preso PDF, etc at the bottom. If
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