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Stock Photos vs. Real Photos: Does It Matter?

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According to MDG Advertising , 67% of online shoppers rated high-quality images as being “very important” to their purchase decision, which was slightly more than “product specific information,” “long descriptions,” and “reviews and ratings”: ( Image source ). Joann Peck and Suzanne B.

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Stock Photography vs. Real Photos: Can’t We Use Both?

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According to MDG Advertising , 67% of online shoppers rated high quality images as being “very important” to their purchase decision, which was slightly more than “product specific information”, “long descriptions”, and “reviews & ratings”: Joann Peck & Suzanne B. image source.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Your firm worked with an investment banking firm that underwrote and offered stock (typically on the NASDAQ exchange) to the public.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Kayak Software Corporation. Founding Date: 2004. round closed in June 2004. 1.65M extension round closed Nov 2004. Series A Preferred.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). conference happened at the end of 2004). And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common. Is it a case of just design it, code it, build it, deploy it, trademark it, copywright it and then go for funding? . link] Graham.

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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of. I used to think that the success of my last startup was due to our software quality, thought leadership, patents, etc. Stocking up is the traditional way of converting cash into commodities. That was a decade ago.