Bubba Murarka

In my last post I shared raw notes from The Stanford Facebook Class final presentation.  The class got some press when it was announced and the apps built by the class got 16 million installs and ~1M daily active users in 10 weeks.   I cleaned up the previous post a bit more but also wanted to follow up with some takeaways:

• The class was more than facebook apps: it was about metric based software design & iteration.  Folks who have worked on consumer web stuff should be familiar with all of this (instrumentation, a/b testing, etc) but what a great think to learn while still in school
• The class resulted in some quality research: Mike Weiksner shared a taxonomy and analysis of the types of facebooks apps / strategies.  Good read for sure!
• The class was really about entrepreneurship: hopefully other universities will learn from what transpired and create a fast pace class that encourages entrepreneurism. 

I do wish I had a clear takeaway on how to go from a bunch of installs into a lasting business…but hopefully that is what Phase II of the class will explore…and find.