I’m a strong believer that with enough effort, anyone is capable of learning the skills necessary to start a company. Whether you’re rich or poor, whether you go to Harvard or a middle school in Zimbabwe, whether you’re 22 or 44, I believe you are capable of learning what it takes to successfully start your [...]

After plenty of blood, sweat, and tears,  GetDataDriven.com 1.0 has finally went live. Since this is my first web project that I’ve built front to back and had a significant hand in design, I’m extremely ecstatic that I got to finally launch this web app. Let’s take a look at what I’ve learned in the [...]

I briefly discussed virality in my previous post, but I thought this deserved a bit more detail. Most of what you need to know can be found in David Skok’s virality blog post, but it’s quite complex for someone brand new to the concept. Virality is best explained through example. Say there’s a zombie virus [...]

As you might’ve figured out, I have a fascination with web analytics. It’s amazing how it can help a startup go from:             to:                 I thought I’d use this blog post to share the love and help anyone interested in analytics get [...]

Never on schedule, but always on time. –Nas, Can’t forget about you Our CTO has a set of Programming Principles that he has every engineer at KISSmetrics read before starting the job. They are by no means a set of hard rules, but merely guidelines and a suggested philosophy on how to program… peacefully. What struck [...]

My name is Lionel and I’m a senior at Stanford majoring in Management Science & Engineering (also playing around with the idea of staying another year to get a CS double major or masters). I joined TEC because I thought it was the best way for me to learn the most practical skills to start [...]