SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - First Principles.

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

[Greg Levow, President & COO, Agronomic Technology Group]: “When we get into the commercial realm, scalability, user interface design, localization and multiple languages, units of measures etc. Today that same type of utility can be executed at a very small percentage of that cost.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. Consumer RSS: 1999-2010 - Venture Chronicles , September 11, 2010 paidContent made an interesting connection about Bloglines being shut down and the broader question of RSS in the age of Twitter.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

In fact, if you exclude the Dot Com Bubble of 1999-2000, they have been steady for nearly thirty years. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5% EGC designation smooths the transition to the public markets for innovative growth companies, making an IPO relatively more attractive.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

To draw titular inspiration from a New York Magazine article entitled Ellen Pao and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove (we’ll talk more about Pao later on), I entered into this topic less with the desire to try to “prove” a specific point, but rather to explore an issue that continues to rise to the top of conversation in the entrepreneurial space.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” Does it actually impact conversion rates?

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

For Mickiewicz, he was keen on monitoring the conversations on the vBulletin forum on WR. Organically, graphic design competitions were happening with no money involved. Soon people from like coffeeshops and non-tech businesses were finding their way to his SitePoint site to post design contests.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2018

by Kerry Alison Wekelo , managing director of human resources and operations for Actualize Consulting and author of “ Culture Infusion “ The recent suicides of iconic fashion designer Kate Spade and internationally renowned chef Anthony Bourdain renewed attention on a disturbing trend in the U.S. They know you care.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 11, 2017

They design it and defend it.” The act of trying to define your culture is one way to be deliberate about it and I’d love to tell you how we defined, designed and defended ours so that you can take a few pointers of what worked and what didn’t when we went through the process of creating our culture code.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Here’s how to go about designing a home page that converts. This is the process I’m using when evaluating or designing home pages. You don’t need to hire an expensive logo designer. A designer from Edicy took just 15 minutes to create this logo for an imaginary company: Image credit: Tajo Oja.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Survey design. As the authors found, “Firms that cut costs faster and deeper than rivals don’t necessarily flourish.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Subject line like it’s 1999! The team at PadiAct were very skeptical that using first names but, being a conversion optimziation tool themselves, they decided to rigorously test whether personalized subject lines make a difference. A classic designed to add urgency and enhance an offer made earlier in the email.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

#6- To portray importance of the artistic side of interior design when working on a project. I came up with the name Artful Conceptions because I wanted to portray how important the artistic side of interior design is when working on a project. – If it could be related to our niche (web design and digital marketing).

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

We started innocent in 1999 after selling our smoothies at a music festival. Personality is a nice-to-have, but doesn’t inherently have anything to do with conversions or revenue. Conduct conversion research to understand how customers currently feel. The design of your site and logo, the images you choose, etc.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Since there was very little documentation my time was split between the design engineers who built the system and the test and deployment team getting the system ready to go overseas. Reply 7thpixel , on June 29, 2009 at 10:23 am Said: My first start up in 1999 I was employee #10 or so and signed up for a Graphic Designer position.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist). Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas. Premium invitation cards and event stationary that is designed online for online distribution or paper print.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. Instead he pressed on: “Someone who has designed a large organization, someone who knows great senior executives and brings prebuilt customer relationships, someone who knows what they are doing.”.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am also in a few select boutiques and Hotel Gift shops including the famous Mohonk Mountain House and a design collective in Australia) My collection features unexpected combinations of raw and polished gemstones, opulent pearls, precious metals, custom clasps, and exotic minerals from the world’s treasure troves. (I

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round. This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. Is it a case of just design it, code it, build it, deploy it, trademark it, copywright it and then go for funding? . A lot has changed. link] leehower. link] Graham.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2019

It was 1999 and I had valuable Internet skills. then you can move into a role designed to maximize your potential income. Life at Your Crossroads was originally published in Both Sides of the Table on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. My Commencement Speech?—?Life

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

When we talk about what happens next, we often frame the conversation in reactive terms. Because Netscape was where, at the time, there was the greatest concentration of smart people designing the future I knew I wanted to be a part of. It was 1999. Keep doing that. But keep looking forward too. Whatever its title was.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Business Model Affects Metrics and Exit Criteria Web-based Business Model Exit Criteria In a web-business model you’re looking for traffic, users, conversion, virality, etc – not revenue. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 18, 2013

It’s enough to use your imagination to design a creative and unique surprise. An email from a founder is a small way that crowdSPRING personalizes our conversations with customers, and we’ve been thrilled with the many conversations the email has facilitated. Surprise can be small and inexpensive. Others call.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 22, 2020

I started my business when my first book (on telecommuting) was published in 1999 (in the dark ages of virtual work!). 3- One of those conversations. One night sitting around with friends and having one of those conversations it came to me that color was to eyes as music was to the ears. Photo Credit: Mark Margolis.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

They learn design skills alongside sewing and patternmaking, so that there is less reliance on mass manufactured clothing retailers, and they get to wear fashionable, unique handmade garments. We built some early ecommerce sites around 1999 and back office order processing systems using visual basic for applications (VBA).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Handspring in a Existing Market As an example, imagine it’s October 1999 and you are Donna Dubinsky the CEO of a feisty new startup, Handspring, entering the billion dollar Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) market. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2013

Until recently, the designation “multinational” was reserved for giant corporations. In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”. This is no longer the case.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Most importantly, if you know a high-quality entrepreneur who you think would add to the conversation, would you be willing to try and convince them to attend? I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. Would you be willing to link to the Master Class info page from your blog? May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

It’s also long been recognized that Atmospheric Marketing - or ”the effort to design buying environments to produce specific emotional effects in the buyer that enhance purchase probability” – has been an effective way of increase purchases for physical retail locations. Emotional Design Influences Sales.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc., that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. There are too many ways to converse, each of us has a favored method, and no one wants to compromise. Web Designer (Req.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

In the aftermath of ea_spouse s post on LiveJournal, quality-of-life conversations in the game development business have taken on a new life and a new urgency. Where O is total output, X is the given output during a benchmark number of hours, designated by Y , and t is the actual number of hours worked. Introduction.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

IDEON is a contract furniture company specializing in high-quality, stylish lounge seating and tables for design-minded businesses. A helpful Online Design Tool was created for the Architect + Design community to help visualize options and take creative control of their specs. 31% referral conversion rate. Start: 10,402.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

But if you work in an environment where the person working next to you is a full-time Account Manager at an unrelated company, and a freelancer in the same workspace is working on their own web design projects, and you’re all working independently while sharing the same space… you are coworking! Want to bring your dog to work?

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

Who would have thought that Apple would be the world biggest music retailer today back in 1999? Often we create and curate the community conversation for the brands for which we work. The current education system is designed for the industrial era (which is coming to a close). This is an interesting question.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

Who would have thought that Apple would be the world biggest music retailer today back in 1999? Often we create and curate the community conversation for the brands for which we work. The current education system is designed for the industrial era (which is coming to a close). This is an interesting question.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I changed the design a few times. The person who owns this blog is Michael Pollack, and he was a web designer and small business fan.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Conversation Rate (CoR) is a ratio of comments per post (or video or tweet or pin etc.) Is what you are saying interesting enough to spark the most social of all things: a conversation? You'll also notice that CoR (Conversation Rate) is usually two or three. Their strategy is to own the conversation around Hair on YouTube.

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