Tag Archives: adoption

What It Means to Be an Early Adopter

Early adopters are a critical component to any startup environment.  This particular demographic is unlike any that a company will face in the future.  It’s the early adopters who are first to interact with a company’s initial product or service.    It’s the early adopters who represent a company’s first fan or first critic.  It’s the [...]

Twitter Teaches Startups to Hunt Their Fail Whale

Which scenario would you rather face as the CEO of your recently launched startup company? :

Scenario A | Not being able to keep up with customer demand

OR

Scenario B | Having scaled your business to meet expected customer demand

Well, personally, the answer is a no-brainer … it’s Scenario A.  You may think, “Well why would you [...]

What makes web services sticky?

The number of technology startups is quite staggering.  This, of course, is a result of virtually no barriers to entry and a relatively low production cost that’s associated with tech startups (namely dot-com businesses and services).  But what separates those popular (mainstream) startup services from the “soon forgotten” ones?
It’s a matter of stickiness…But what makes [...]