While at one of my recent startups I developed a framework for startup growth metrics (focused primarily on user metrics). It is a simple, but useful, framework for startups to leverage (framework subject to change). Tags: WOM growth Uncategorized analytics startup metrics metrics startups framework vira UPDATE:  I’m setting up a new project on analytics.  If you are interested in collaborating ping me on twitter @gammill. 

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For little while now I have been dabbling in the open source content management framework Drupal . At this point, while I dislike PHP, it is already scalable (with work) and I believe will through Drupal and some Rails like frameworks be the only logical choice for social web development in the next few years. Drupal promises ( in time) to allow practically anyone to be able to set up and mange complex social web sites with more features than a swiss army knife. Today a friend of mine Darius asked me for my thoughts on my recent participation in the DrupalCampLA BarCamp.

Monday, March 23, 2009 -- Introduction to the DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF). See [link] (mor

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? What other kinds of systems will we likely need? I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up .

asked Matthew May to come to Mixergy and teach you the elements of elegance and give you a framework that will help you create with more elegance. We keep seeing that people are drawn to elegant products and web sites, but HOW do you design elegance if you weren’t born with Steve Jobs’s design eye? I

Rails is a web framework. Have you ever gone to hire a web developer and realized that you don’t even know what the programming languages mean, let alone how to pick the right one? In the interview I recorded with Obie Fernandez, he explains the main web development languages and how to pick the right one. Obie is a pioneering Rails developer, the author of The Rails Way , and founder and CEO of Hashrocket

Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) and also a content management framework. So, those who know me might be asking why I was at Drupal Camp , or, more importantly, what exactly is Drupal camp. In a discussion about the hot CMS’, three are at the top of the pile, Drupal, WordPress and Joomla . One of the really great things about open source applications

I’m simply laying out a framework for you to assess your opportunity.  I’ve been mulling over a new series* of posts that I’ve been wanting to create for sometime.  Lately I find myself now very crisply focusing on the issue of STRATEGY.  I love strategy - not in the McKinsey sort of way (all though I have tons of respect for those guys), but in a real-time iterative way. 

This time around we decided to hire a few individual designers (with a budget of $2,000 per designer), give them a framework for what we wanted, and like an open source project, make our design more collaborative. We researched a few companies who can take the PSD files of your design create and turn that into a template that lies on top of the word press framework. It’s been 4 years since we launched the current version of mobilestorm.com. We are coming out with two new products very soon, so it only seemed fit to create a new website that was more in line with our brand, the new products