Category Archives: How-To’s

HTW2011 videos: Panel – The API effect: social media layers

How to Web 2011 also included a panel entitled The API effect: social media layers. The panel was hosted by Martin Bryant, european editor at The Next Web. His guests were Max Niederhofer – founder of Qwerly, George Lemnaru – co-founder of eRepublik, Konstantin Hristov – founder and CEO of Favit and George Petre – product manager for social media products

HTW2011 videos: Eric Wahlforss: Bootstrapping – The ride from zero to hundreds of apps and millions of users

Eric Wahlforss, co-founder and CTO of SoundCloud, held a talk at How to Web 2011 named Bootstrapping – The ride from zero to hundreds of apps and millions of users. His talk focused on detailing the way SoundCloud develops its API. He described some key steps in developing an API that will indeed be used by the community and drawed attention to some mistakes that could be done along the way.

HTW2011 videos: Max Niederhofer – Social identity


Max Niederhofer, founder of Qwerly, held a talk at How to Web on Social Identity. He spoke about the traditional, real world, types of identity and then moved on to what he calls identity 1.5 in the digital world, which is what we basically have now with the Facebook connect feature being used all over the web. He went on describing what

HTW2011 videos: Branko Milutinovic: Social gaming – lessons learned


Branko Milutinovic, co-founder and CEO of Nordeus (producer of Top Eleven), held a talk at How to Web 2011 called Social gaming – lessons learned. He offered some nice tips about the process of designing a social game and talked about the key-metrics that should be followed. He also underlined the importance of maintaining players

HTW2011 videos: Panel – Key-metrics for SaaS businesses

The second day of How to Web 2011 included a panel on key-metrics for SaaS businesses. The panel was moderated by Raluca Georgescu – co-founder of How to Web, and had as guests Alexandru Costin – EiR at Adobe with Business Catalyst, Vladimir Oane – co-founder and CEO of uberVu and Max Niederhofer - founder of Qwerly. The guys talked about CMRR (=committed monthly recurring