Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! If you don't stink completely, things on the the web always go up and to the right over time – the argument is simply about the slope of the line and short term fluctuations. See Page 269. :).

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

And thanks to the radical transparency enabled by the internet, the quality of these proposals is actually constantly rising, to the point that it’s almost impossible to judge the quality of the final product – because all the proposals look polished and professional, even the terrible ones. Though technology tools and Web 2.0

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

This week they were testing one of the most confusing sections of a company’s business model – Customer Relationships - the activities used to “Get, Keep and Grow” customers in a physical or virtual (web or mobile) channel. If their team was a web or mobile app they actually had to buy Google or Facebook ads and create demand.).

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As is the case in other countries with a relatively new, rapidly growing tech sector, e-commerce is Russia’s fastest growing vertical. For example, one of the priorities of Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF) is to provide financial and expert support to startups in their early development stage. billion in the UK and $5.5

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

See Also: The Top 10 Tools for Tracking Your Web Metrics. It’s no joke that your users are your best advertisers. It’s significantly easier to get a press mention from smaller bloggers or internet evangelists (Youtube, Scoop.it). Successful and failed experiments. I’ll be going over some of the tests we did and our results.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Marketers believe creating a killer web presence, corporate presentation, are objectives. While the product is being engineered, Marketing begins to create web sites, corporate presentations and sales materials. All this leads up to a flurry of press events and interviews, all geared to the product/web site launch date.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

The web is the most important source of connections that we all have immediate access to—and that’s why it is the first step in getting word out about your company and what you have to offer that’s unique, exceptional, or even disruptive. In addition, you can find low cost or even free solutions for marketing and advertising.

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Technology eCommerce Social Media Social Network 60

cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The only thing I wouldn’t do is to post it on the internet. But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. bruce – i’m not saying you should publish your idea on the web (which is what my describing them on my site would amount to). link] Marco. link] Nivi. ” chris.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

That’s true in print, and it’s equally true on the web. And since the average website is between 90 and 95% text, one leading expert wisely observes that “web design is ninety-five percent typography.”. This is no doubt why, at least as far back as 2005, users were overwhelmingly voting for small fonts as the #1 web usability problem.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

I’ve been a web developer for 10 years and I cringe when I see that I need a module that’s not included…there goes two hours of my day searching, configuring and installing dependencies. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder.

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Open Source Software Review Non-Compete Software 62

ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

The idea is that people look where they hover, and thus it shows how users read a web page. 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. Image Source).

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

It’s also about the company’s reputation, the way a company’s products and services are advertised, and about a company’s values. Marketing intelligence experts at Datorama recommend tracking your branded impressions, internet search volume, and the performance of branded keywords. Via social media?

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 8, 2010

“It’s funny how fallin feels like flyin, for a little while…” - Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart Soundtrack On July 1st, Google announced its intention to acquire ITA Software. ITA owns a primarily B2B airfare search and pricing system called QPX.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

Ultimately, we each had a lot of domain experience in different content verticals and wanted to build the ultimate places we could work every day putting that experience to work. TastemakerX was the company Ruxin was born to build– that every hobby, obsession and savvy career move has unknowingly conspired to positioned him to create.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

.” Some members of HN proceeded to question the value of the give-away, including by interpreting the positioning for it as “a PDF file full of content that was published years ago to the Internet.” I could practically justify my consulting rates just doing dramatic readings of that for the web teams at my clients.

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Email Software Review Software Campaign 54

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Web Design. Advertisement. You want Smashing Magazine on a Web-enabled TV ? Web pages don’t have to use 12- or 16-column grids, and websites don’t have to follow strict hierarchies. Your organization (or more likely you and your Web-savvy coworkers) adopts a mobile-first strategy. Newsletter.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

At the scale of Facebook, you could have your users share almost anything and still be able to build a large business, purely by loading the site up with lots of advertising that is (at very least) rudimentary targeted. They also must move advertising off-site, as they are now doing, which I detail in this post.). David Pakman.

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Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.) Preserve your cash: When you have unlimited cash (internet bubbles, frothy venture climate,) you can iterate on your mistakes by burning more dollars.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 19, 2021

More than half of all active internet users worldwide use it, and two-thirds of users say they visit business pages at least once a week. Interestingly, vertical videos have a higher engagement rate than landscape and square videos. The bottom line is: Facebook wants you to spend money on advertising. Image source.

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Marketing Audience Social Media Algorithm 134

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

5 Photoshop & CSS Tricks for Killer Web Designs – [link]. 30+ Excellent Photoshop Web layout Design Tutorials – [link]. Opinion Column: The Sad State Of The Web Design Community – [link]. Introducing the Web Safe Font Cheat Sheet – [link]. Web design conferences: just expensive blog posts?

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

5 Photoshop & CSS Tricks for Killer Web Designs – [link]. 30+ Excellent Photoshop Web layout Design Tutorials – [link]. Opinion Column: The Sad State Of The Web Design Community – [link]. Introducing the Web Safe Font Cheat Sheet – [link]. Web design conferences: just expensive blog posts?

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Then, you can refine through testing different ads and web landing pages. For example, if you’re an early-stage SaaS provider that is shifting from a horizontal solution to a vertical focus, your mission, culture, and competencies can stay the same and the pivot transition will probably go smoothly. Not all pivots are created equal.

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Startup Silicon Valley Business Model Mobile 36

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

The Digital Dream Team Way before the Internet phenomenon, we had created “Rocket Science the brand ” that was much bigger in size and importance than Rocket Science the company. There are usually hopes of making it up on advertising, digital goods, transactions, consulting, but until the numbers are proven this is just as speculative.

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Silicon Valley Product RSS California 122

Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

Or will the convergence of content, internet, mobile applications, games and social media be the onrushing asteroids that will soon destroy the movie dinosaurs? How about Internet Video? revenues from internet video services spanning user-generated content to television shows and movies will exceed $7 billion this year.

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review IP 76

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

What is the first thing you want when you think about web analytics? recommending tools for the complete web analytics 2.0 Web Analytics 2.0. This blog post is about web analytics 2.0. As defined in my second book Web Analytics 2.0 The quest for a "single source of the truth" on the web is futile.

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Analytics Web Non-Compete Campaign 135

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

” Introduced a few months ago as an Austin event, I’m now doing this live audio advice column to the web, taking phone calls from startups around the country. Like the ability to spend X dollars on advertising and gain Y dollars in revenue or something like that. It’s Episode 3 my little “ Loveline for startups.

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Cofounder Technical Review Software Review Differentiation 208

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

» 25 Responses Mark Soper , on November 30, 2009 at 6:55 am Said: Steve, I’m working on a consumer internet product concept at the customer discovery phase. reminds us that Customer Development is not just collecting web metrics and it’s not about focus groups.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Competitive intelligence, the "what else", is one of the core tenets of Web Analytics 2.0. The reason is simple: The ecosystem within which you function on the web contains mind blowing data you can use to become better. Feel better? : ) When should you start doing paid search advertising for tours to Italy for 2011?

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Analytics Securities and Exchange Commission Search Engineer 123

Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

As the internet becomes more fragmented, when– if you can produce great content in niche areas and then really leverage the distribution on the internet, you’re looking at a very high scale, high ROI, return-on-capital business.” Disparate brands for consumers with a single brand for advertisers.

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Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

As the internet becomes more fragmented, when– if you can produce great content in niche areas and then really leverage the distribution on the internet, you’re looking at a very high scale, high ROI, return-on-capital business.” Disparate brands for consumers with a single brand for advertisers.

Arkansas 100

Arkansas Algorithm Advertising Audience 100

Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

I've suffered enough bruises on the front-lines from trying to re-imagine the current and revolutionize the future across multiple industry verticals, countries, opportunity sizes. The web is dead. Mobile web is dead. Programmatic advertising is all the rage. Our advertising will rain down massive revenues! !"

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Analytics Marketing Mobile Audience 60

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2015

In 2013, Nielsen reported in its “Trust in Advertising” study that online banner ads are the least trusted form of advertising among consumers falling even behind traditional ads like in the newspapers or magazines. million eye-tracking fixations from hundreds of sites to understand how people read on the web. amateur ad design.

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Technical Review Software Review Vertical Advertising 48

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. Sans serif are better on the web.

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Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Had I known it was going to take the internet by storm I probably would have been a bit more careful with my word choice (especially referring to.NET as a language, doh!). I was just looking at your web site. Happy Look Like an Idiot on the Internet Day. has nothing to do with.NET, it’s just web stuff. So clueless.

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

And here some of the other social and tech changes I found myself thinking about over the holiday period: Anonymous Web – It seems that more than ever the internet replicates life, because it is part of where we live. And so, the web is starting to realise that sometimes we want to be known, and at other times we don’t.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

And here some of the other social and tech changes I found myself thinking about over the holiday period: Anonymous Web – It seems that more than ever the internet replicates life, because it is part of where we live. And so, the web is starting to realise that sometimes we want to be known, and at other times we don’t.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tweet Next Post Previous Post Advertisement Now Commented Facebook Firesheep In Wolves’ Clothing: Extension Lets You Hack Into Twitter, Facebook Accounts Easily NSFW: Changing the world via Twitter? The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62