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How to find that first big customer

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Freshman Salesman writes: I’ve read somewhere in your blog about how you had a very large organisation as the first customer for your software. How you convinced them to pay up when code review at that stage was nonexistent? make for not putting customer development before writing code. I think you meant this ?

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How Do You Know If Your Copy Is Any Good? (My 4 Step Process For Copy Testing)

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Would you like to know my review process for improving web copy for myself and clients? Use this review process to hit your prospect in the gut, nag them while they sleep, or experience moments of pure joy when entering their credit card number, because they already know the dramatic improvement you’re bringing to their lives.

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53 Top Conversion Optimization Tools Reviewed by Experts

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Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. You can add a custom goal right in the code, and it automatically shows up on the report – you don’t need to create the goal first. The dashboard is just a plain list of tests on a white background.

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The Blockchain: Ending Data Hacks

View from Seed

In 2002, online commerce accounted for just 1.6% of total retail sales in the U.S. Code is permeable and we’ve dumped entirely too much of our sensitive data on the web for those platforms and institutions to keep safe and sound from bad actors. It wasn’t just my parents. Fourteen years later, consumers in the U.S.

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Neuromarketing Ethics: How Far Is Too Far?

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Decades later, in 2002, Dutch marketing professor Ale Smidts coined the term “neuromarketing.” At a tactical level, companies can improve their customer segmentation and personalize marketing and sales experiences. Other codes in the business world have similar principles: informed consent, confidentiality, privacy, etc.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

Both Sides of the Table

Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. If the VC your talking to raised its last fund in 2002 then they likely don’t have much fire power for new investments. Why does vintage matter to you?

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Cracking The Code: Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson?

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. So where does Salesforces profitability stands today compared to the most successful on premise public software companies? traditional software is like cocaine--youre hooked.