I’m republishing this here as I was worried about the reliablity of the original source here.
I hope Dr. Jager (a founder of BytePlay, Seedcamp Mentor, and Founding Investor of Playfire) doesn’t mind me repeating/creating redundancy of the content here. He has compiled an incredible list of great resources that I’m sure many of my readers here will find interesting.
Another useful list of resources is posted here at StartUpNorth by David Crow.
Republished from: Dr Douglas de Jager’s bookmarks:
Guides
Market size
The only thing that matters: market size
Long tail: the hits get bigger
Overviews of different verticals by the Internet Advertising Bureau
Morgan Stanley's market research
Customer Development
The leading cause of startup death: the product development diagram
The customer development manifestor: reasons for the revolution. Part 1.
The customer development manifestor: reasons for the revolution. Part 2.
Customer development: the long lost formula for startup success
Acquiring traffic; seeking and maintaining critical mass
Understanding online marketing.
What's your viral loop? Understanding the engine of adoption.
Viral loop and retention loop.
Viral marketing is not a marketing strategy
Engagement loops: beyond viral
Calculating cost of user acquisition
10 obvious strategies to ruthlessly acquire users
3 Drivers of growth for your business.
Six strategies for overcoming chicken-and-egg problems
Converting traffic into paying customers
How to measure the success of your web app
Tips for improving high-bounce, low-conversion Web pages
Ad-based versus direct monetization
How to create a profitable freemium startup
A simple formula to gauge a freemium model's success
5 factors that determine your advertising CPM rates
5 things that make your social network monetize like crap
Your ad-supported web2.0 site is actually a b2b enterprise in disguise
How to price
Startup Tips for Enterprise Software Pricing
Branding; image; PR
Branding lessons from Basecamp
You're a little company. Now act like one.
Why metrics-driven startups overlook brand value
User interface. Engagement and product design
25 Reasons users stop using your product
Do you ever say that MySpace is so ugly?
Why FaceBook apps are focused on fun instead of utility
How Metcalfe's law can work against you
Algorithms
Essential algorithms: genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, etc
How to build a popularity algorithm
Metrics-driven business
Does AB testing lead to crappy products?
Benefit-driven metrics: measure the lives you save, not the life preservers you sell
The first 6 steps to home-growing basic startup analytics
Are you misusing Alexa numbers?
I'm just a startup. I can't do those fancy analytics.
How to measure if users love your product
Case studies
5 lessons learned from yousendit.com
AdultFriendFinder: ARPU, churn and conversion rates
What would FaceBook look like if it sold out to ads?
Whirl: metrics for virtual goods businesses
FaceBook vs MySpace: traffic and ad revenue/a>
Lessons from the casino industry on engagement metrics and lifetime value
How companies like Google, Ideo and 37Signals build failure-tolerant systems
Everything you always wanted to know about Google
Platform versus application: considering FaceBook
Lesson from SnapTalent: Know Your Market
Rentoid: overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem
Hiring
Funding
Series-A Termsheet as advised by YCombinator
Series-A Termsheet as advised by TheFunded
5 milestones to reach before raising venture capital
Venture capital firms care about the upside case, not the mean
Managing one's own time
Guide to personal productivity
News / Views
Matt Cutts: Google, Gadgets, SEO
Investors
