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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

Google, at the time, was overhauling the back end of their search engine. They built their search engine 20 years ago. Bigger jets, bigger engines, bigger ships, as opposed to the small changes that can make an enormous difference. The architecture/capabilities needed to build out a more resilient communication network.

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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. They adopt, measure, and manage key product performance metrics. A CTO is in the business of scale, for whatever an organization has as its core metrics.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Online Storefront

Up and Running

SEO, or search engine optimization, makes your website and its content more visible to search engines. The closer you are to the top of the search engine results page (SERP), the more likely it is that searchers will click onto your site. Plan your website architecture. So, how do you become more visible online?

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Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it

Steve Blank

As a consequence, corporations used metrics like return on net assets (RONA), return on capital deployed, and internal rate of return (IRR) to measure efficiency. These metrics make it difficult for a company that wants to invest in long-term innovation. Its acquisition of Android may have been the biggest bargain in corporate history.

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5 myths about the marketplace that mobile strategies busted

The Next Web

Many of the newer service marketplaces feel more like “movements” rather than “businesses,” and actually require very careful architecture of the end-to-end experience both online and offline, including areas such as culture and workflow. Myth #2: You can bolt on community, once the commerce engine is going.

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How to Conduct a Technical SEO Audit

ConversionXL

This makes website architecture an important technical SEO factor. As well as prioritizing key pages in your site architecture, an audit helps convince Google of a page’s importance by: . The pages on your website can only be indexed if search engines can crawl them. Each of these tools will display metrics in a different way.

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The Role of SEO in Growth

ConversionXL

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the biggest levers that a business can use within their acquisition strategy as part of their Growth goals. You’re likely familiar with the different Growth frameworks like AARRR (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue). It all start with Acquisition.

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