Astute.io – Business Intelligence For Startups(astute.io)

29 pointsby charlieirishvor 12 Jahren10 comments

Astute.io – Business Intelligence For Startups

http://astute.io/

12 comments

So here is my 2cents. Having built a startup whose target market was other startups, I would say avoid it. Unless you're building a utility platform like say github or attlassian, who are not startup specific, selling to startups sucks.

Figure out how to make this a product any enterprise middle manager can buy and pay $200+/month. Startups won't pay the same rates that even mid-size companies would.

The volume you need of customers to make it a viable business at $50/month or less is ridiculous, and the number of startups limited.

Also they have high turnover, so your LTV of your customers will get halved potentially vs enterprise customers.

krmmalikvor 12 Jahren

To be fair. There are already quite a few players in the enterprise space. Eg AgilOne and Splunk.

I don't disagree regards the "startups for startups" point though.

btrautscvor 12 Jahren

this is such an undervalued point (which many in SV ignore).

many, many "startups for startups" die because naturally most startups die.

[no judgement on this proposed service - it indeed looks interesting]

dantaylor08vor 12 Jahren

No, I will not sign up for a trial of your product when you don't provide me any concrete information on how it's used/how it works. And yes, I am a potential customer for products in this market.

alexpoonvor 12 Jahren

This is so vague it seems they have barely started work on their product.

calgaryengvor 12 Jahren

I agree. I was trying to find the "more information" button to no avail. Is this vaporware? How does this stuff end up on the front page.

AznHisokavor 12 Jahren

What does this even do? Business intelligence is such a vague, abstract terms. Tell me what this can do for me, in plain Engrish terms, please.

harrisreynoldsvor 12 Jahren

Does look cool. Love the idea! BI is a tough market, but if you can really provide insights there is real value there.

shavenwarthog2vor 12 Jahren

I'm very interested in business intelligence for my startup, and am happy to pay a service for this. Alas the OP's site seems premature. No info.

klintchovor 12 Jahren

Looks great, no pricing though? Also what would be interesting is what the different datasources that I can/need to plugin.

shavenwarthog2vor 12 Jahren