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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

We interviewed the heads of the top Web and mobile development companies, incubators, agencies and labs to understand what it takes to design and develop the most successful apps of our generation. And that involves processes, structures, feedback loops, analytics and a community.”. 1) Twitter. “You

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. it’s not because you can create short links but because of the analytics that bit.ly provides you.

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Starting up down under: The guide to Australia’s growing startup scene

The Next Web

Marketing itself as ‘the world’s largest online graphic design marketplace’, Melbourne-based 99designs tops the list as most talked about when I asked who to watch. A kind of “Prezi for Design,” collaborative Web tool Canva has been generating a lot of buzz since its launch for bringing great design to the masses.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. When it comes to identifying what has changed, Labay continues: I’d think the first stop is analytics—who dropped off, what channels, who remained, etc., Survey design. What the big studies have shown. but polls and surveys are obvious choices, too.

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

When we started our company in 2002 we decided that Sonjara would make a great name for our company or product; meaningful and unusual, as well as easy to pronounce and spell. Codal is a full-service UX design and development agency, based out of Chicago. 31 – Original Product Design. 11 – Lesson Learned.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

Customer personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. Cooper framed personas as a way of avoiding designing for an “elastic” user, and thus cementing some sort of common properties across segments to aid cohesive design strategy. Artistic and Aspirational Alex…?

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

Omer : I have been online since 2002. It’s scalabale and has a real time analytics platform. On the AfterDownload we have a very high in CTR (4-5 to 10%) but if the page is designed in a way we know is optimized we get much higher than the rest of the market. Below is the transcript of our exclusive interview.