Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Well, the research shows that it’s really not a “write a plan” or “don’t write a plan” conversation. One study ( 1) published in 2010 aggregated research on the business growth of 11,046 companies and found that planning improved business performance. When you should start the planning process. References: 1 Brinckmann, J.,

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ConversionXL

JULY 7, 2016

In 2010, Dr Anne Aula, Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, gave a presentation where she presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking: Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. Increasing these metrics is merely correlational with increasing conversion rate.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

October 3rd, 2010 the Chubby Team 48 Comments. Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Quora says: October 4, 2010 at. says: October 4, 2010 at. Company : Wesabe.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. After a few months of early beta at IMVU, we discovered that our actual conversion rate was about 0.4%.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Heat maps are a popular conversion optimization tool , but what good are they really? So how are heat maps useful in the pursuit of higher conversion rates? Click maps show you a heatmap comprised of aggregated click data. It’s also easy to quickly take in the aggregate click data and see broad trends. What is a Heat Map?

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Trust SEO - Part 7 Seo Bank Automation By Peter Drew 17/10/2010 6:39 pm Hi Steve, We have a very high success rate of great user experiences with the software, even though its such a complex piece of kit. You just need to find the right one for you. A small percentage of people experienced those issues you have pointed out.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2016

But as Daniel Goh pointed out in one of his earlier presentations back in 2010, gamification has been one of the most prominent ways to grow over the past few years. This public gratification provides users with sufficient incentive to contribute and thus help TripAdvisor meet its business need of aggregating traveler reviews.

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

 Obviously, WSGR has a much larger sample size and the fact that they make it public (in aggregate) is impressive. .  Last year, I spent a lot of time attempting to reverse engineer  this data based on a small personal sample size.   Building that must have been crazy. . 

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2010

So with a panel of 5-6 people and 30-45 minutes it’s hard to have a real conversation. Every speaker wants to get their points in so the conversation often lacks rhythm. Startup Matchmaking (Wed 5th Oct – Santa Monica) - The first event is tonight (Tues, Oct 5, 2010) at Wokcano in Santa Monica.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 12, 2017

That’s where web accessibility comes in, opening you up to conversion opportunities you didn’t even know you were missing out on. million people, that’s 19% of the population, had a disability in 2010, according to a broad definition of disability. Aggregate and report the findings, and calculate overall scores.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

By now we’ve discussed the fact that you should first plug your funnel , then improve conversion rates , then work on sending as much traffic as possible to your website. But we haven’t talked about how big of a role traffic quality plays in determining your conversion rate. This is because the quality is so much better.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The VCIR Winter 2010 conference will be held at the Park Hyatt in Beaver Creek, Colorado, February 23-25, showcasing early-growth companies from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. RavenBrick delivers innovative solar-controlled windows, which reduce energy costs by up to 50 percent.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Whats the right set of materials, conversations, etc. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. This unit of progress is remarkable in several ways.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Twenty Companies Ranging From Seed Stage to Mezzanine Will Showcase Next Generation Technologies from Various Industries at the 27 th Annual VCIR Winter 2010 Conference. VCIR Launches 20 Promising Companies/Page 2. RavenBrick delivers innovative solar-controlled windows, which reduce energy costs by up to 50 percent.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule. Bring your questions.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Some of the conversations went like this: Startup 1 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and have been following the Customer Development process and I’ve talked to lots of customers.” Reply Quora , on October 20, 2010 at 7:22 pm Said: What is the most effective way to get the word out about a new product?…

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

With standard conversions, people receive value immediately. Bekkers and Wiepking (2010) examined why people donate to charities. Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. Given the difficulty with prosocial conversions, always provide some type of reward to potential donors. Done and done.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. Here's my conversation with Brian Armstrong. We're having this conversation still in the midst of a seemingly never ending pandemic and lockdown.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

However, for the trials that they did receive they were successful at converting them to closed deals at the expected conversion rate. Peeling back another layer, they will tell you that the number of trials is equal to the visitors to the site x the conversion rate of those visitors to trials. But this can be expensive to increase.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

The conversation was in Hebrew, so hopefully nothing got “lost in translation&#. PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. Long story short, I ended up spending a year and a half in China from 2008 to 2010 and now I’m hard at work with BizMe2.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 16, 2010 Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium (Normally, I do not write about companies that are doing a marketing launch. ’&# They removed the core plan, and conversions went up. ’&# They removed the core plan, and conversions went up. Except it didn’t take off. [I

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “ 57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.”. If it’s done right, feedback and postmortems are regular activities and reviews are just the official aggregation of such feedback.?. Fab.com Fab Feed Bradfords Blog. 90 Things I’ve Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies.

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Startup Company Lawyer

JANUARY 9, 2011

I started writing this post in September 2010, but only got around to finishing it.). Paul Graham has sparked some discussion on the topic in August 2010 when he tweeted “Convertible notes have won. It’s been a while since I’ve written a substantive post. (I Seth Levine asks, “ Has convertible debt won?

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 19, 2010

Or they have just one (DUMB) Macro Conversion defined and completely ignore the Micro Conversions and Economic Value. Examples of a Ratio is Conversion Rate (a quantitative metric) or Task Completion Rate (a qualitative metric). Through this consultative process we'll create a 2010 AOV target of $95. Beneficial.

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2015

Well, the research shows that it’s really not a “write a plan” or “don’t write a plan” conversation. One study 1 , published in 2010, aggregated research on the business growth of 11,046 companies and found that planning improved business performance. What steps you can take to reduce your chances of failure. 2008.10.007.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

As of 2010 I still have a lot more years that I spend in the traditional data warehousing / business intelligence world than in web analytics. But even if 110% of the signs point to that first make sure you have aggregated all the marginal gains. It would be silly to not pick up the high ROI low cost stuff first right?

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Rob Go

JANUARY 16, 2013

At the time, I was thinking generally about the concept of aggregating demand for products and local services, and just hearing the word “Groupon” piqued my interest. It’s funny to think that it all started with a conversation I happened to overhear with our neighbor who is a high-school science teacher in a nearby town.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

Participate to online conversations Once you have enough friend-generated content showing in the homepage, you need to participate to discussions to learn and drive some extremely qualified traffic. Add something interesting to the conversation to make your comment remarkable. Participate to conversations. Its really easy.

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David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

We thought that you’d be interested in our conversation. Cambridge Associates reports that funds with more than $150M capitalization only generated higher pooled returns than those with less in 11 of the 30 vintage years between 1981 and 2010. Kauffman found that their top performers are mostly small funds.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

Participate to online conversations Once you have enough friend-generated content showing in the homepage, you need to participate to discussions to learn and drive some extremely qualified traffic. Add something interesting to the conversation to make your comment remarkable. Participate to conversations. Its really easy.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Previous Israeli exhibitors lists are available MWC 2009 and MWC 2010. Logia offers Mobile Operators a range of solution for their Apps Stores starting from Content Aggregation, Billing aggregation to full white labeled Apps Store. Logia has the unique combination of being both a content aggregator and a billing aggregator.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

In May 2010 (!). Many vendors now aggregate this real customer data and present it in the form of benchmarks that you can use to index your own performance. Both Fireclick and Coremetrics provide benchmarks related to conversion rates, cart abandonment, time on site, and so forth. 9 points higher, now you deserve a bonus!

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers. aggregation. online subscription management. FeeFighters â?? find the cheapest credit card processors. Customer Support. support, knowledgebase tool for your site. SnapEngage â?? live chat integrates with your apps. Zendesk â?? web help software. UserVoice â?? Kampyle â??

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. if you have some thoughts on this you could add to the conversation and provide some advice. This is the blog post I needed to read. good post.

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