Recommended Reading: April 28, 2015
28.04.2015
Christoph Janz explains the KPIs of Software as a Service startups.
When I talk to SaaS startups and take a look at their metrics, it still happens quite often that some of the numbers aren’t quite clear to me and it takes some time to clarify things. I’m not referring to sophisticated reports or analyses but to the much more mundane question of what exactly people mean when they use a term like “revenues”.
http://christophjanz.blogspot.ch/2015/04/key-revenue-metrics-for-saas-companies.html
99 problems: Why Jay Z's Tidal streaming service became a train wreck
According to Mashable, Tidal, Jay Z's streaming platform, has various problems, including technology. The quality of the audio streams is very high, but this has an impact on the buffer time. By the way, I personally can't differentiate between 1'411kbps and 320kbps.
What went wrong? Plenty.
http://mashable.com/2015/04/24/tidal-jay-z-decline/
‘Okryu’ North Korean online shopping website gaining popularity
The eCommerce era has arrived in North Korea:
In the Okryu e-commerce system, there are products of various name-brand commercial stores, restaurants and shops, including Changjon Haemaji Restaurant, Haedanghwa Restaurant, and Kumsong Foodstuff Factory. On the homepage users are able to search for the products and when they decide to purchase a product they pay for it with an electronic card.
http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2015/04/10/okryu-north-korean-online-shopping-website-gaining-popularity/
Here’s How Uber’s Co-Founder Is Going to Take on Amazon and eBay
Very exciting: Uber co-founder Garret Camp is launching a new app: Simple operator Chat and tell them what you want to buy and you will immediately receive a suitable offer.
Camp conceived by Operator in 2013 with co-founder Robin Chan during a research trip to Asia. Camp and Chan, a former Zynga executive and early investor in Xiaomi, saw a ton of Chinese consumers making retail purchases using messaging apps. They also talked about the absence of telephone operators in the smartphone era. “We wondered, Why can’t you press an app and there’s a network of human beings that help you?” says Chan, now Operator’s chief executive officer.