Adam Breckler

internet professional

Category: Startups

Designing For Social Traction: Solving 3 Big problems of Social Software

Great deck by Joshua Porter

Designing For Social Traction
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Are You Making Grilled Cheese Sandwiches or Viagra?

Is your product sexier than grilled cheese sandwiches? Do people like it better or are more willing to refer a friend to it? I’m willing to bet in 99/100 cases the answer is…NO.
Case and point: Grilled Cheese Sandwiches have a whopping 212,686 fans who are willing to self-identify as Grilled Cheese Sandwich lovers on [...]

Hadoop, Pig, and Twitter

Hadoop, Pig, and Twitter (NoSQL East 2009)
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Facebook Ad Experiments Part 3: This Company Sucks

How do you know if you have found a market with unhappy customers ready for disruption?
Start your mining with a nifty tip via Eric Ries.
Take out an Ad on Facebook/Adwords using the name of the market leader “This Company” and measure the clickthrough rate on the ad.
Ad Copy: “This Company” Sucks