Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

In the early 1990s, my brother was working for a company that was going through the roof selling shareware software via catalog. Voices.com , an online marketplace that matches voice actors with advertising agencies and TV and radio stations, began in 2004 as an idea scribbled down on a napkin by newlyweds David and Stephanie Ciccarelli.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

But I have put in hundreds of hours writing my blog, Lucky7, since 2012. At the beginning of Coremetrics, there was no such thing as “the end of software” (a term that Salesforce.com popularized and now they are the largest Software as a Service company in the history of the world, with a market cap as of this writing of $132.7

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 12, 2013

How and Why to Be a Leader (Not a Wannabe) | Harvard Business Review – [link]. Your Words Should Match Your Actions | by @ bfeld – [link]. Penney failed with its no-sales selling | ThoughtGadgets by Ben Kunz – [link]. Why We Underestimate Risk by Omitting Time as a Factor | Bloomberg – [link].

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

For instance, to simulate an Uber-like experience, you could create a Facebook ride sharing page that matches riders with drivers on demand, by simply asking members to post their ride requests, then privately chatting with drivers. They looked for reviews, social interactions, and recommendations. Priorities change.

Technical Review 96

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2014

Before you run a fire sale and torch your profits for the sake of staying competitive, you need to read this. Back in October 2013 Simon-Kucher & Partners , a global marketing & sales consultancy, published a survey that found 33% of shoppers did not name prices as the primary driver for online shopping. Businesses either: A.)

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Their advantage over the competitors is that they don’t solely rely on manufacturer product information, but write their own sales copy for each product. It’s pretty difficult to figure it out, and here’s why: their pricing plans do not match – they compare different number of monthly visitors. You can do it by.

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Social Media Software Review Raleigh Social Network 109

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

UX Study The State Of E-Commerce Checkout Design 2012. September 4th, 2012. This has lead to a massive checkout database with 508 checkout steps reviewed, 975 screenshots, and 3,000+ examples of adherences and violations of the checkout usability guidelines. Newsletter. JavaScript. Techniques. Web Design. Typography. Responsive.

Design 98

Design Software Review HTML Technical Review 98

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

Basically what that means is the better your site can match what someone wants when they search for something, the higher it’s going to rank. It has the keywords, it has links, it has all the traditional stuff, but it didn’t match user intent. They warned people for years before 2012.

SEO 60

SEO Kansas City Kansas Missouri 60

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Warn patients not to mix-and-match components. Sometimes patients decide to mix-and-match components from other systems (or they buy a cheaper, unauthorized component to replace one that broke) and it doesn’t work correctly and ends up harming the patient. Nothing becomes law overnight without a process beforehand.

Technical Review 111

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

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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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

Growth: A sharp increase in users and sales. Here, your focus should be to earn new sales from fence-sitters and consider new revenue streams. There are several documents you can create in pre-launch to encourage buy-in (no matter the size of your startup or organization): Sales messaging guide.

Product 96

Product Social Media Audience Software Review 96

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I now has 350+ customers who spend between $6k to $17k a year to use their software, depending on the size of the company. Their growth since their MVP release in 2016?

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Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 78

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Conference 2012. My delusions of coding grandeur quickly subsided and realized that I was not going to hack it. It’s the same process as sales and dating, and I know how to do both, well, at least sales… So, how hard can this be? Then, I needed to determine who is the right match for me. female founders.

Cofounder 47

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I now has 350+ customers who spend between $6k to $17k a year to use their software, depending on the size of the company. Their growth since their MVP release in 2016?

Sweat Equity 50

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

ConversionXL

JULY 19, 2013

in Q4 2012). Billion lost in 2009, to $9 Billion in 2011, the amount of money lost due to cart abandonment has been climbing rapidly over the last few years. 2012 Holiday Season To Date vs. Corresponding Days* in 2011 Non-Travel (Retail) Spending Excludes Auctions and Large Corporate Purchases Total U.S. The truth is, from $1.2

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Software Review Technical Review Email Architecture 129

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Lee Se-dol (right), a legendary South Korean player of Go, poses with Google researcher Demis Hassabis before the Google DeepMind Challenge Match in Seoul. Voyager Labs (2012) – cognitive computing for understanding human behaviour. Dragonera (2016) – AI based software development service.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

2012 was the Moneyball election. Algorithms will be the heart and soul of due diligence — it’s not just a sanity- check mechanism,” said Matt Oguz, the managing partner of new investment firm Palo Alto Venture Science. We found this out through usability testing and then added the information to the sales copy and the FAQ.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Instead of a salary, you pay them for each new lead or sale acquired as a result of their marketing efforts. 2012 was runner-up with just 10.96%, indicating rapid growth in the industry in recent years. Are you aware of your profit margin on every type of sale? Some people confuse affiliate marketing with referral marketing.

Affiliate 48

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2014

Notice how the size of the photo, reviews & “See Options & Buy” are the main elements of this page? A simple example of this is flash sales, which take advantage of the immediacy and personal nature of a smartphone. The user can tap to read reviews of the product and potentially order it through Amazon.com.

Mobile 99

Mobile eCommerce Design Analytics 99

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

million registered users, 7500 supplier partners, 600 team members, and a run-rate of more than $150M in sales in just 15 months. To this day, not a single pixel gets on our website or apps without my input, review, and approval. It doesn’t matter how smart or experienced people are, if they don’t match your style it’ll never work.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

leananalyticsbook.com

AUGUST 19, 2012

August 7, 2012 by Alistair. Companies like Flurry do a lot of work in this space, and many application developers roll their own code to suit the way their games are used. Users buy and install your software on their device. Users buy and install your software on their device. Skip to secondary content. Skip to footer.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. There will also be a free networking reception at Campus on Monday, June 25th.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

of all Analyst careers fail due to a lack of this critical last mile skill! Second, between 2012 and 2013. You are comparing 2012 and 2013, add a row of data at the top that shows your computation of the size of the opportunity for 2014. Only 21% of the click ids matched to the provider's cookie pool. In fact 86.4%

Stock 60

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 14, 2017

But mid way through it, in fact about 45 days from the manuscript due date for the entire book I had this ah ha! And if you rewind the very long story short, is I launched a YouTube series, 52 videos back in September of 2012, a year later it wasn’t doing what I wanted so I really got geeky with YouTube analytics and figured things out.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

I’ve reviewed hundreds of startup pitches and I can tell you that everyone makes the same types of errors. Because every one can be matched or surpassed by any competitor, today or tomorrow, in very little time. App reviewers know when you’re fudging it. And a lie by omission is twice the lie.) It’s OK.

Programming 86

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. Before offering some suggestions about how we might improve capital formation, I’d like to review the current state of the IPO market.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 20, 2012

Goodman says this scoring mechanism goes beyond simple keyword matching: Even if your resume includes the word “sales” dozens of times, Bright shouldn’t recommend you for a sales job that’s in a completely different field. Disrupt SF 2012. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012. © 2012 AOL Inc.

Search 62

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ConversionXL

APRIL 6, 2016

Humans do “mental accounting,” a subjective coding and categorization of economic outcomes. Social proof isn’t just reviews. Say it – Reviews, expert Q&A, audio clips / videos. Basically, you can scour the web for reviews, testimonials and unbiased discussions to steal for your copy.

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