Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Depending on the size of the venture firm they may have one to three EIR’s who stay an average of a year or so. Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid « Steve Blank (tags: vc startup) [.] It really means that the VC’s would like to own a piece of you. This post was Twitted by altgate [.]

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

The most popular traditional indexes are the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Standards and Poor?s The reasoning behind investing in an index fund is that it closely matches the overall market - and it?s s very hard to beat the efficient market. s 500, and the Nasdaq composite Index. startupcto

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 27, 2010

So we can definitely expect KissMetrics to come up with new versions that will remove the incompleteness tag, I simply wanted to point the line between simplicity and incompleteness) Look at your own applications. For you, a person with above-average knowledge in these realms, the features found in these applications are obviously not enough.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The only drawback is the price tag. With over 1,000 reviews on Amazon and an average review rating of 4.5, You might not think of the American Federal Reserve as the place to go for comic books, but they’ve been teaching money management for years via their own series of comics, which you can access for free on the Internet Archive.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

They had this great architecture, and Apple had figured out to get movies into their own computers for a demo, but for the rest of us there was no physical device that allowed an average consumer to plug a video camera or VCR into and get video into a Mac. At the time *very* few people knew how to find/encode, tag, and transfer an mp3 file.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks Tags facebook Is it still possible to be a successful developer on Facebook?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks Tags facebook Is it still possible to be a successful developer on Facebook?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks Tags facebook Is it still possible to be a successful developer on Facebook?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

” If you’re worried, you can use a canonical tag. Yes, but there are certain keywords that have to remain in the H1 tag, so there’s the realistic prospect of losing traffic if they change it out for a clearer, benefit driven headline. Same is the case with your split testing URLs. Use 301 instead. Finally, page speed.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

The two bibles on this topic on VentureHacks Archives and on Feld.com so I asked Nivi to do a Skype call. And they’re averaging more then 12 billion Skype-to-Skype calls / month. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. The very next week I organized a call with Babak Nivi of VentureHacks to present to the Launchpad LA class.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 30, 2010

Other options are pretty standard, such as excluding menu items, changing fonts and an archives page. For that it is a pretty average choice, and fits in a gap between completely free and higher priced premium themes. Tags: Blogs & Blogging kevin muldoon personal blogs premium wordpress blog theme. What Could be Improved?

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

How to Archive Past Tests? This can involve fixing, adding or improving tag or event handling on the analytics configuration.). How to Archive Past Tests? Smart organizations archive their test results and plan their approach to testing systematically. What to Test to Improve Our Chances of Winning? How Long to A/B Test?

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. It might surprise you to know that the average recruiter cannot name the distinct steps in the recruiting process, nor the goals or common failure points for each step. tags: hiring. More recruiting articles by Dr. Sullivan can be found in the ER Daily archives.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

While the industry average says only 20% of show leads are followed up, that only happens in other companies, not yours. Going to a show to get leads is a sales function, if the leads aren’t followed up marketing won’t be supporting these kinds of trade shows out of their budgets. What didn’t? Go to trade shows like it matters.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

It’s good for founders to have complementary skills, and the average programmer you work with doesn’t want to deal with the business side of the startup. Tags: startupcto. Be confident with the skills you do have. If you do bring a lot to the table, don’t worry about how you’ll be perceived approaching programmers.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. The proposed resolution upgrade is fully automatic, fast, and hassle-free. Bizzabo - Company Website.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Part of larger Adobe Suite and can take part of other tools such as Adobe Tag Management, AEM, Analytics, and 360 profile. At this point all those features in the hands of the average optimizer are a bit like a baby with a handgun, you’re not sure what will happen but in most cases it is all bad. Most flexibility of any tool out there.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

2010 03 /07 CATEGORY Uncategorized TAGS dev shops development getting it built software startups tech themoreyouknow View Comments [link] Victor Wong I would say that if you have a strong development team and need contract developers who can work well remotely and under your project manager, then you can also bring in a development shop.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Our engineers built a series of test tags, so you could quickly run a subset of tests in your sandbox that you thought were relevant to your current project or feature. Wish I could figure out how to apply it to the average data warehousing project which has a single shareed database right at the heart of the entire solution.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Startups , Technology , Venture Capital and tagged angel capital , technology , venture capital. ← More on Liquidation Preferences Happy Holidays → [link] Tweets that mention @altgate » Blog Archive » Where Do Tech VCs Invest? Bookmark the permalink. — Topsy.com [.]

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www.readwriteweb.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Using Churn, you can calculate the Average Customer Lifetime - the average number of months that a customer stays with you before canceling. The figure takes into account things like Churn and Average Customer Lifetime. Click a topic in the tag cloud to focus on it. Tags: startupcto.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

This is the kind of thing an average user cant put their finger on, but on a subconscious level, it bothers them and gives them a negative opinion of the application." This is the kind of thing an average user cant put their finger on, but on a subconscious level, it bothers them and gives them a negative opinion of the application."

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Do you know, right now, how long on average it takes for a support ticket to be closed at your company? The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth | Trada Blog (tags: startup entrepen strategy management tips) Share and Enjoy: [.] The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth | Trada Blog (tags: entrepreneurship) [.]

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

How to improve A/B test results How to prioritize A/B test hypotheses How long to run A/B tests How to set up A/B tests How to analyze A/B test results How to archive past A/B tests A/B testing statistics How to do A/B testing: tools and resources. This can involve fixing, adding, or improving tag/event handling in analytics.

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www.readwriteweb.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Using Churn, you can calculate the Average Customer Lifetime - the average number of months that a customer stays with you before canceling. The figure takes into account things like Churn and Average Customer Lifetime. Click a topic in the tag cloud to focus on it. The calcuation is 100 / churn_percentage.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Given the need to cover R&D and G&A costs, the average gross margin on a deal needs to be at least $150k. Tagged with Business Model , CAC , Inbound Marketing , Low Cost Sales Model , LTV , Sales 2.0. Tags: startup metrics startupcto. This number is heavily dependant on the productivity of your sales teams.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 8, 2016

News stories get archived, shared and remembered for long, so the impact on sales by being featured in a TV segment is much higher than being featured in advertisements during commercial breaks. Remember, writing an average post will do no good, you must write an interesting or newsworthy post.

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ConversionXL

MAY 24, 2013

The problem with using site averages in your testing is that you are missing out on what is going on inside the average (the segments). Instead of using a noindex meta tag on your variaton page, use rel=canonical. Guess which variation has been more successful and see an archive of A/B tests. Use rel=”canonical”.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

They measure average responsiveness and compute an aggregate statistic called Apdex which can be a good indicator of site health (at minimum, any significant changes to Apdex should be investigated, and they will email you alerts about such changes). Tags: startupcto.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

Duality – Student Life – in the Military Here we were, thousands of students with an average age of 19 going to school and living in barracks on the airbase. Gravity Will be Turned Off « Steve Blank (tags: humor) Comments (0) [.] And I always say, “No, never heard of it, tell me about it.”

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

This averages out to an eighty-five hour work week [sic]. Archived at Mischievous Ramblings. Ea_spouse writes: The current mandatory hours are 9am to 10pm — seven days a week — with the occasional Saturday evening off for good behavior (at 6:30pm). hours per week — but after that many hours, whos still counting?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

The downside was that the average winter temperature was about 10 degrees. Reply dispatches from TJICistan » Blog Archive » a secret history , on April 27, 2009 at 7:25 am Said: [.] Imagine how hot, humid and unbearable the weather was in Thailand. s strategic weapons: ICBMs, nuclear submarines, and manned bombers.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

On average, I think enjoyment leads to success, so I expect more of the group that enjoys learning to be A students than a random sample. You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. You just get successful. This doesn’t ruin your point about Google, however.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Just wrote about this at [link] Dave Hanna Sorry Kameko- digital life archiving is thriving. Just Because Google Exists Doesn’t Mean You Should Stop Asking People Things » © 2010 TechCrunch Powered by WordPress.com VIP About Advertise Archives Contact Events Jobs Network Staff. Tags: startupcto.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

The average U.S. upmod] [downmod] 8 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Programming Career | Software by Rob (softwarebyrob.com) 1 points posted 5 months ago by SixSixSix tags career imported saved by [.] #12 If you were a manager forced to layoff 10% of your team, who would you let go? at 12:56 pm [.] 12 Recession Proof Career on 06.04.09

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

→ Bill Gates Releases Mosquitoes At TED While Talking About Malaria & Education Posted on February 6, 2009 by fnazeeri Bill is a smart guy, but man is he an average speaker! Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Current Affairs and tagged Bill Gates , education , malaria , mosquito , TED. Bookmark the permalink.

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blog.stackoverflow.com

APRIL 20, 2010

Posted by Jeff Atwood on April 13th, 2010 Filed under background 28 Comments « New 10k Feature: Inline Tagging Changes to Stack Exchange » Steve Wortham says: April 13th, 2010 at 12:17 pm Well done Jeff. Tags: startupcto. Your decision to go with OpenID has only helped OpenID develop into something great. 21 queries.

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