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Beware, Google Apps for Domain Users!

April 15, 2011

The normally blissful atmosphere at StatsMix HQ was interrupted the other day by a frustrated 45 minute dialogue evaluating and strategizing how we were going to navigate the big Google Apps Transition.  The expanded Google Apps has been out for a little while now and we’re finally facing the “transition” in light of its inevitability. [...]

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New StatsMix Site Design Updates

April 14, 2011

We recently released an updated version of our site. Specifically, the pages every visitor initially sees when coming to StatsMix. Over the past couple months our web site hadn’t changed much on the front-end, but the application itself went through a tremendous transformation. By talking to customers, we found that the real pain point was [...]

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The perils and pearls of SaaS metrics

February 14, 2011

Recently I stumbled across this question on Quora: What are some good metrics to track for an enterprise SaaS app? And I loved this response by Omer Gottlieb: While the obvious ones are Signup, login, purchase and important features on your app, you should also remember to measure import data, app customization and sharing content activities, since they are implying [...]

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The TechStars and Twilio “Two for One” Contest

January 4, 2011

TechStars and Twilio announced a contest yesterday to create the best combination of a TechStars company’s API and Twilio. Since StatsMix is a TechStars Boulder 2010 company, we’re very excited to be participating as one of the available APIs in the contest. From David Cohen’s contest announcement: To enter, just create an awesome application that [...]

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Scheduled Downtime – Friday 12/3/10

December 1, 2010

StatsMix will be having scheduled downtime for approximately 4 hours this Friday, December 3, from 6pm to 10pm MST. We’re rolling out infrastructure upgrades and some new features that require this. Please note, if you’re using our API, it will also be unavailable during this time frame. Please check our Twitter account for additional updates [...]

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The Importance of Knowing Your Stats

June 14, 2010

I was fortunate to recently attend the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York. It was easily as entertaining as it was insightful, highlighted by the highly-charged interviewing style of TechCrunch’s founder, Mike Arrington. His especially memorable conversation with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz gave the Google-loyal audience a thrill when Arrington prodded her to conclude the [...]

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Startups and Climbing

June 9, 2010

StatsMix took TechStars founders out for a day of climbing in Boulder Canyon recently. I spoke about the relationship between climbing and building a startup in the following video taken during the trip:

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