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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

My own metric is that you need experience >= 1.5 A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level. We could for example, find warning signs in popular literature about e.g. finance suggesting rapid maturation in bond trading. Warning sign? At best. ~

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. The problem is that there are no other metrics they can look at to judge the content of a book to know if it’s worth reviewing. Is that a lot? In that I see opportunity.

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Heat Maps: What Are They Good For (Besides Looking Cool)?

ConversionXL

In 2010, Dr. Anne Aula, a Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking: Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. Click maps show you a heat map comprised of aggregated click data. Maybe it’s accurate, maybe it’s not.

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What Are Heat Maps Good For (Besides Looking Cool)?

ConversionXL

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. Click maps show you a heatmap comprised of aggregated click data. Click Maps.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. Key-based partitioning. to store it.

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The Definitive Guide To (8) Competitive Intelligence Data Sources!

Occam's Razor

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. In all three cases, you can compare your performance to specific vertical markets (for example, retail, apparel, software, and so on), which is much more meaningful.

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Visual Engagement Metrics: Your Optimization Secret Weapon

ConversionXL

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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