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2018-12-292019-01-02

Customer development: How to estimate market demand for your SaaS Startup based on facts – I learned it the hard way

2018. A guy asks on Facebook: what are typical SaaS startup marketing costs? The commenters tell him to think about channels, target audience, write a business plan … Don’t be these guys, that was the bad advice I got 2009. You deserve better. We are living in the future, 2018. In this article I describe how using Google Ads & customer development, you can start marketing your startup in minutes and a few hundred Euros and gather your own facts. Because facts > theory.

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2018-12-232018-12-23

A change of wristbands – from “Nowhere 2014” to “I,Robot 2018”

As I am changing a wristband on my right hand, I also reflect about the bigger picture about me an participatory culture. As I am writing these lines, I am still wearing the wristband of the participatory temporary city “Nowhere 2014” on my right hand. As I have been for the last 1632 days since July 5th 2014. I am moving to an “I, Robot 2018” wristband by Severin Taranko. Both remind me that I am part of a global participatory culture where such small things represent and reflect the meaning of everything.

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2018-06-152018-06-30

Fluffiness – a word for the inverse of density

What is the inverse of density? As we didn’t have a word, we found “fluffiness” is an appropriate word for the inverse of density.

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2018-06-132018-06-16

Abnehmen durch Fasten, Energie aus dem Fettzellen-Akku

Meine Fettzellen sind meine Batterien, sie speichern Energie in Form von Übergewicht. Wenn ich ein paar Tage oder Wochen nichts esse, also faste, verbrenne ich die Energie und nehme ab. Ich beschreibe hier meine eigene Erfahrung damit, etwa war ich dieses Jahr nach 9 Tagen “wenig Essen” 3kg leichter. Eine einfache Tatsache, aber wenn ich auf Google nach “Abnehmen”, “Fasten”, oder “Gewicht verlieren” suche, finde ich nur Werbung. Darum ein Blogpost in dem ich meine Erfahrung aufschreibe.

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2018-01-232018-01-23

A practical guide to costuming for cacophony events

As there is always a next event upcoming, like the Burner events, such as Vienna Burning Ball, here a handy guide for dressing up.

Badly photographed from the wonderful “Tales From the San Francisco Cacophony Society“.

2017-11-04

Twoday to WordPress converter

I wrote a converter to take an export from twoday.net and write it into an XML file that wordpress will read.

If you are wondering if you want to move from twoday.net to a wordpress blog, and if you can program python to understand how this works and how to run it, then you may want to checkout this script:

https://github.com/leobard/twoday-to-wordpress

I won’t support the code, other projects more interesting.

More about the reasons why I wrote this in the next blog post…

2014-11-142017-11-04

Alternative to Microsoft Streets&Trips (AutoRoute)? portatour® !

Microsoft Streets & Trips (also called AutoRoute) will be discontinued by 31st December 2014. Looking for a better alternative? Then consider the online route-planner portatour®. portatour® supports multi-stop route-planning for up to 125 stops, it can show up to 1.000 addresses on a map and has many more functions for professional route planning and route optimization. It is especially useful for professional sales reps working in outside sales, support and service. Here is an article about it:

http://www.portatour.com/blog/en/blog/2014/10/30/great-microsoft-streets-trips-autoroute-alternative-replacement-portatour/

2014-04-072017-11-04

portatour – Software for route-planning. News

News: portatour is a Software for route-planning for field sales force / sales reps. It is the future of fully automated sales-route planning for your field sales force, consultants, and service team members. Automatic scheduling can cut up to 25% of your mileage and save CO2, increasing revenue the same time.

portatour® plans sales trips within seconds at the push of a button, giving sales reps back valuable time which would otherwise just be left on the road. They can visit more customers, drive fewer miles.

2014-04-072017-11-04

Mehr zu portatour – Software für Tourenplanung und Routenoptimierung im Außendienst

Hier noch mehr Informationen zu portatour – der Software für Tourenplanung und Routenoptimierung im Außendienst. Ich arbeite für portatour, habe letztens über die Mathematischen Herausforderungen der Software geschrieben.

portatour – Software für Tourenplanung und Routenoptimierung im Außendienst

portatour – Software für Tourenplanung und Routenoptimierung im Außendienst

Tourenplanung, Routenplanung und Tourenoptimierung im Außendienst mit Microsoft Outlook

Tourenplanung, Routenplanung und Tourenoptimierung im Außendienst mit Salesforce

Tourenplanung, Routenplanung und Tourenoptimierung im Außendienst mit Microsoft Dynamics CRM

2010-07-052017-11-04

Das Perfekte Grillen / The Perfect Barbecue Setup

Das Perfekte Grillen / The Perfect Barbecue Setup

Originally uploaded by leobard

I finally achieved perfect barbecuing – or at least I am close enough to share my setup.

The essential part is: make two fireplaces, one with blazing fire and the other driven by embers taken with an iron shovel from the first. Other things in the picture are sugar-on-top.