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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. Great stuff.

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How to Conduct an SEO Audit for Your Business Website on a Budget

Up and Running

Generally, you can expect to uncover issues like: Slow web page loading speeds Broken or redirected links Blocked or incorrectly indexed webpages Toxic links from poorly run sites Incorrect or missing HTML tags Missing Meta information Poorly performing content. Metrics : Website visitor data. Why do an SEO audit? Cost: Free.

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Case Study: UX, Design, and Food on the Table

Startup Lessons Learned

The attendees at sllconf 2010 were wowed by Food on the Table's presentation. Because of their dedication to metrics, they knew all the details of their registration funnel and subsequent user journey. They would look at a metric, spot a problem, come up with an idea for how to fix it, release a change, and test it.

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Startup Tools

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Reply Mike Byrnes , on April 28, 2010 at 9:17 am said: Steve: I just found your site and blog from a link off Venture Hacks “Two great talks from SLLConf&# I fell like I’ve just found the mother lode! Thanks Phil Gainley Reply Margit Niemelä , on August 16, 2010 at 6:29 am said: Steve, wonderful job! Thanks a million.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre emitting HTML, as 99% of all PHP apps are, its just so damn convenient to throw in PHP tags along with your layout tags, all inline on the page. Youre right php can get ugly when used inline with html. Keep HTML HTML and Javascript Javascript. February 17, 2010 3:59 AM Jared said.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive taught everyone from hard-core programmers to scripters to HTML-designers to use it properly. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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How to Conduct a Technical SEO Audit

ConversionXL

Each of these tools will display metrics in a different way. Google first confirmed as much in 2010. By going to Behavior > Site Speed in your Google Analytics, metrics will show how specific pages perform on different browsers and countries: Check this against your most viewed pages and work through your site from the top down.