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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing. The mantra was as follows: “no one is coming to save us, we are going to make it on our own&#.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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Is Your SaaS Homepage As Optimized As You Think?

ConversionXL

9 billion matches, downloadable app. ” These charts are similar, demonstrating that the homepage really hasn’t changed much since 2001. In 2001, 45% of the screen was useful (content, navigation, or logo/tagline). Does your vertical dropdown extend way too far beyond the fold? How is it useful to me?

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The last 22 (part IV)

ConversionXL

You’re no match for Amazon in this regard, and hence I don’t really see a reason using your service, really. Honestly your site looks very 2001. If so, I’d line the product vertically, and provide more information already on the home page. Add more value! Where are the personalized detailed, recommendations?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

All it needs is multi methods and pattern matching and it would be the coolest language ever. It’s like arguing against vertical software. The depth of your ignorance is only matched by the shallowness of your knowledge on the subject. March 25, 2011 at 2:16 pm. William Pearson. March 25, 2011 at 2:21 pm. CEO Friday?

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8 Things That Grab and Hold Website Visitor’s Attention

ConversionXL

The interests and/or needs of the prospect need to match your offering, your content. Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read website content in an F-shaped pattern : two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe. Patricia Wolfe, Brain Matters (2001). This just confirms what Seinfeld said. F-patterns.

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