This weekend we updated Yast with some features requested from the users:
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Norwegian business models Vs Silicon Valley business models in tech start-ups
Mike Butcher writes in his Techcrunch article today that ”Norway looks like it is losing the battle to join the global innovation race”. Norway has only 42 companies in Crunchbase compared to Finland with 55 and Sweden with 131.
From my recent presentation at Innovation Norway
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There comes a time in every web apps life when it´s time to evaluate the business concept of the grand idea. For some companies this evaluation ends with a shut down of the service. But not for us. We have been fortunate, lucky and probably skilled enough to attract a growing user base. With so many people using Yast, we´ve been able to identify strengths, weaknesses and areas of future development.
Why?
You don´t need anyones permission to be awesome!
Guest blog by Silverfox: It’s been suggested that no one seems to have a normal job in San Francisco. Perhaps what we’re seeing is a fundamental shift in what having a job and building a business means these days. One thing however always remains the same: the need to be mindful of how you spend your time and attention.
- Chewie! Did you start the Yast time tracker before entering hyper space?
50 000 declarations of love
Yesterday our time tracker reached an important milestone. 50 000 users have signed up for the service. We have overcome the difficult obstacles of attracting the first users. In this process there is nothing more inspiring or motivating to us than a user publicly declaring love for Yast and tells us that we have made life just a little bit better.
On our way to 50 000 users...
The 5 important parts of “the business concept” upgrade
An important part of the new upgrade is what we call “the business concept” and how it is organized. Basically there are 5 key elements.
1. Create your company in Yast
VentureBeat article reveals new Yast design
We´re proud to announce that Yast won the fast-pitch competition at “Under the Radar” conference in Silicon Valley. The following VentureBeat article begins like this:
“When Halvor Gregusson got off the stage, an audience full of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors was cheering and the moderator was giving him a high-five.
Reading between the lines
In my previous post, Mission 1, I raised my first and most fundamental question of coming to San Francisco. Is our global approach an illusion, or is it common in USA? And my starting point is our partners at Appdirect. I did not exactly know what I would gain by sitting next to them, just assumed that being somewhere they talk about apps all the time would result in a greater knowledge of our industry.
San Francisco, Mission 1.
In 2008, we started to make a time tracker that would be so easy to use that no one would ever again feel frustration when tracking time. That was our idea. And we knew that new programming methods had opened new possibilities to make programs (applications) work directly in a web browser.
Seeing other web applications distribute to a global market, and being tech students, of course we thought this was the way software would be distributed in the future. Of course we thought of global domination from day 1. It did not even strike us that this approach might contradict the usual ways of the local market.
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We love your feedback! And we need your feedback. Even when we get more than we can handle, we appreciate everything you tell us. More is better. That´s why we every week will announce the winner of the award:
User of the week!
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