Author Archives: Dragos ILINCA

My thoughts on viable ideas, fundraising, customer development

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: February 25, 2010
I had the pleasure of being interviewed for the first episode of Dormroom Tycoon Podcast which focuses on all aspects of building a new business. The interview focused on finding viable ideas, getting cofounders for them and raising money. I have a relatively limited experience in those areas, but though I’d share what I know [...]
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Cost Of Machines vs Cost Of People

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: September 3, 2009
Why the growing imbalance between the cost of people and the cost of machines? What prices are going up the fastest? Health care — the cost of maintaining human beings. What prices are going down the fastest? The cost of information and machines. What, really, is health-care reform? Human beings are being cared for by [...]
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Challenging Assumptions: Tractor vs Horse

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: September 3, 2009
Taking into account the annual feeds for work horses (1,300 kg of corn grain, 1,600 kg of alfalfa and 500 kg of harvested roughage) and the national yields for these crops during the past decade, they conclude that the 23 million horses would require 9 million hectare of agricultural land for food, or 6 percent [...]
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[uberVU Blog] The State Of Social Tracking

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: August 26, 2009
Social, “realtime” tracking seems to be where it’s at nowadays. The technology is pretty difficult to pull of, but the best part is that it can be used for a lot of purposes. News discovery, buzz tracking, comment plugins are starting to develop. But one has to ask, WHAT ABOUT COMMUNITY? Read the full post here: [...]
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[uberVU Blog] Does More Data Lead To Better Actionable Insights?

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: August 25, 2009
Image via Wikipedia In an interesting E-Consultancy report on Online-Reputation-Monitoring-Buyers-Guide-2008, the E-consultancy experts noted: Whether it is web analytics, market research information or online monitoring data, companies ultimately need outputs which can be translated into something actionable for their business. It makes sense that the data doesn’t really matter, it’s what you do with the data that drives [...]
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Band Of The Week: Bent

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: August 25, 2009
Bent – I Love My Man
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How YouTube Does A/B Testing And How YOU Should Do It

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: August 20, 2009
Image via Wikipedia YouTube recently finished a huge mutivariate experiment (1024 variations) on their home page. They used Google Website Optimizer and found a variation that performed some 15% better than their previous homepage. These are some of their key takeaways: While we could have hypothesized which elements result in greater conversions (for example, the color red is [...]
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Visiting Basic Web Analytics

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: August 19, 2009
Whenever someone starts using some random free Web analytics tool, they seem to be excited about visitors, page views, bounce rate. This is usually because that’s what the default dashboard provides you with when you first log into, say, Google Analytics. But Google Analytics have spend years devising their dashboard, how can anyone say it’s not [...]
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The Marathon

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: July 20, 2009
It started as a challenge to myself, though challenge is too strong a word. I wanted to know if it was possible, even though I had no reference of what that would mean. 26.2 miles is an abstract number that told me nothing. It did not seem like a short or a long distance. It [...]
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The water that gave us life

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: June 12, 2009
Drops of water from incredible blue icicles. The biggest glacier is melting. That’s how it’s supposed to be. Dripping away, the clearest blue, tiny streams, heading for the grasslands. Millions of streams follow their course. They are one, but don’t know it yet. They’re heading for destruction, yet that’s where they’re meant to go. No wrong [...]
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