Just my personal opinion, no disrespect intended. I have personally authored posts that needed a bit more time on the proofreading table and I did worry that people would question my authority on the subject due to grammatical errors in the article.
This is VERY misleading given that it doesn't include visitors to the search engine (which Google dominates) and even bigger it does not include visitors from mobile devices.
Great question and it does make you think. I did notice the story quickly made the front page with very little up votes or maybe I just don't understand the ranking algorithm that HN uses.
At this point, I agree with you. Right now it's a score based on a combination of publicly accessible metrics. With that said, I think they are still very early stage and their vision to provide robust growth metrics to the investor community is much needed.
Now, if they can pull it off or not is yet to be seen.
I've been following Unpakt (https://www.unpakt.com/) for the last couple of months. It's an interesting concept, kind of like the Kayak of the moving industry. Still dealing with the old school moving companies though.
Yep, we agree there, the advice of the author is spot on. I think too many startups, and large companies for that matter, think optimization is going to fix all the problems that are inherent in their product/business by just blindly slaping optimization vendor A's tags on the site and money just falls from the sky. Just doesn't happen like that.
I've worked with many startups to help them build a culture of data-driven decision making and I'll say from my experience that you don't need massive data to run highly valuable A/B tests. Also, with proper segmentation techniques, you can run many tests in parallel.
Is the "capture everything" approach to analytics a way to differentiate themselves from more enterprise level mobile analytics solutions such as Localytics?
I just did this 3 months ago and I agree with aneth4, it's always best to start with a client if you can -- just be careful that you aren't violating any employment agreements you have with your current employer as you go after that first client.
One of the biggest fears I hear from people looking to make the jump is "I can’t take the risk to get started."
This one stops a lot of people from making the jump from full-time employee to freelancer but you can do things to minimize your risk.
Depending on your current employment agreement, you may be able to do some moonlighting in order to build up a client list before you make the jump.
Get a part-time job to help pay the bills.
Or, just do what I did, take the leap with confidence that you will quickly sign a few clients and get things started.
For me, the most important part of freelancing has been my network. Make sure you are continually making connections. Ask for clients for referrals or recommendations. Word of mouth of your network is going to be the best marketing you can buy.
I'm looking forward to exploring the integration with Jupyter.