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Fear and Greed: What Drives Human Behavior?

ConversionXL

They’re also two triggers that direct marketers and copywriters have been well aware of for years. In that time, exorbitant prices of new Internet companies motivated investors to invest into companies whose business plans included a “dot com” domain. There are case studies that support both sides.

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2011 Consumer Internet Predictions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Before I try gazing into my crystal ball to see what 2011 will bring for the consumer internet industry, let me first see how I did on last years predictions: 1. Foursquare and Gowalla have grown too, but off of much lower bases, such that only 4% of internet users currently use a check-in service. Putting fun into ecommerce.

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