Well, I would be happy to hear about things such as:
* Which features did your first version have?
* How did you get your first users?
* Did StyleFeeder rely on B2B connections, if so how did you find/create them?
* What was StyleFeeder's business model?
* When did you start looking for funding/why/how?
Thanks for the time and experience sharing!
* Basic social sharing of products, fancy bookmarklet, following other people and then we quickly moved into some high-end realtime recommendation technology.
* At first, it was just friends and family spreading the word. Our first big jump came after our bizdev guy joined and he did a deal with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen to feature us on their homepage and for them to create accounts and share products they were interested in with their fans. We did a bunch of other celebrity stuff. Then, we really grew right after the Facebook platform launched. SEO was also a major factor.
* B2B connections were largely a waste of time.
* 90% affiliate, 10% advertising.
* Funding: I didn't pursue it at first, but smarter people than I saw the bigger opportunity that I hadn't tuned into yet and made introductions.
Does simply seeing 82% vs. 50% enough? Shouldn't there be some significance measurements added to it? If you had only 6 people in this experiment maybe it is just a statistical error...
If you put data (usually little icons) in a data: URI, the browser can load the image without having to make another request to the server for the image, because the data is right there in the URL. It doesn't have to touch the network or disk.
If you put that in an <image src=data://...> tag, it would be rendered inline just like a normal image. So that's the main advantage: the data is in the URI. It's usually used to reduce the number of requests made to the server for icon images.
