January 2012
3 posts
Career Choices: Corporate vs. Startup
What would you do? Are you thinking about making a career choice? Here’s what I did, being a freelancer/startup enthusiast who went big time corporate for 2 years and then started a company right afterwards:
Opportunity
Some late winter-day in 2007, I heard about an internship call at Microsoft. I was working for a small company in Vienna, Austria / studying / freelancing on the side at...
What we learn from the first 1.000 users
For most startups, getting to a 1.000 users is a serious marathon. People say it gets a lot easier after the first 1.000, and even more so after the first 10.000. I wouldn’t necessarily agree with it, since it really depends on how active these folks are, if they ever return after their first visit and so forth. Anyways, here’s what we learned from our 1.000 users at...
The Art of Design Validation
These are more or less my private thoughts. If you want to check out my business projects, head on over to twentypeople.com, pareer.com and fruji.com. Questions? Reach out via Twitter, ping me @mittermayr.
It is a classic trap for almost any recently-incorporated, hyper-passionate startup: The angst around not entering the market fast enough, the urge to go wild and code like a monkey on speed,...