ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

” If you’re worried, you can use a canonical tag. Only run the experiment as long as necessary. 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. Use 301 instead. Image Source.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Capital Requirements In my class students form teams and spend a semester building a detailed plan for a company. Before long this can spill out into external communications with some pretty horrific results. But as I learned from my students this “one-size-fits-all” approach does not work for all startups.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You work long hours at below-market rates for stock options, a chance to participate in the financial payout of the company’s success. Stock options, in its simplest form, is a vehicle for empl0yees to participate in the ownership of a company. Leave a comment Trackback Tags. Tags: startupcto. WHERE ARE YOU?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? I cannot say that I am there yet – but most goals worth having take a long time to fulfill. The Adventure of a Lifetime. Sounds like things went not so well after that.

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

There has been a good deal of conversation about this subject on the Lean Startup Circle mailing list ( [link] albeit in the form of co-founder and technical co-founder. Subscribe to this blogs feed Archives February 2010 January 2010 Categories Community People. Tags: startupcto. Alas, many must take what they can get/afford!

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Software By Rob

JULY 24, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← The Future of the Web is Small, Academic Earth, Beatles Rock Band, Top Developer Blogs, et al. 5 Stephen’s Thoughts » Blog Archive » Some great startup advice on 07.26.09

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

We could have been right and invented a new form of gaming and entertainment. Your point about the VC portfolio model vs. the entrepreneur’s “portfolio of 1″ is one I’ve been thinking about for a long time, and have also discussed with many other entrepreneurs. Make sure they are.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Our answer was, “People will love this thing, as long as we don’t oversell the product.” I think of Twitter as a broadcast form of text messaging. At the time *very* few people knew how to find/encode, tag, and transfer an mp3 file. And they were right. Remember there were no video applications available at all.

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

SeriesSeed.com Series Seed Financing Documents Blog Home Documents Blog Archives Subscribe 09/02/2010 Version 2.0 Series Seed Form SPA   BEFORE DOWNLOADING THESE DOCUMENTS PLEASE READ THE DISCLAIMER ? Also, I’ve gotten a lot of request to post other form documents online. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

After a long focus group, I’m sitting in the listening room with 10 people, including our client, and we are discussing what we heard. Reply David Binetti , on October 12, 2009 at 9:59 am Said: Wow, I’m totally surprised by the number of people who are taking issue with the form of the CEO’s conduct.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

But none of them matter if the product is harder to use, since most people simply won’t care enough or get enough benefit from long-term features if a shorter-term alternative is available. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Grahams startups go through a months-long process of coaching to help them build products and raise money. Many if not most seed investments in startups these days are done in the form of convertible debt, which is a loan that can convert to equity in a subsequent financing. Comments (You may use HTML tags for style).

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact Interested in an Open-Data Contest in Baltimore? You want to scale up your search to form as many friendships with software people as possible. Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact © 2010 [sb] Startup Baltimore.

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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. As long as youre getting to the true root cause of each problem, including the human dimension, it really doesnt matter how many questions you ask.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Some form of these deception jammers would eventually find their way into most electronic warfare defense systems used in the Cold War; first in the U-2, A-12 and SR-71. tags: startup history) [.] Is there a print page function you can easily imbed into the blog user interface to make it easier to print the long articles?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 11, 2010

I read through your archives almost religiously before branching out to other marketers. This model has proven very successful for many people and is taught in various forms as an entry strategy into the world of Internet marketing. As long as we all benefit, you can’t complain right? It was an amazing journey.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Most disappointing however, is that in more than one hundred years of legibility research, researchers have failed to form a concrete body of theoretical knowledge on the part that serifs may play in legibility ( Lund, 1999 ). Sans serif fonts survive reproduction and smearing because of their simple forms.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Generally speaking, as long as you’re not working on a project your employer would reasonably want to own, you’re probably ok. I finally found my ticket in the form of admission to business school in the valley. This is the third in a series of posts on how to form your own startup from scratch. Find your ticket.

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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. companies to form a unique partnership. How long do you have their attention for? Bizzabo - Company Website.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2010

You will find plenty of articles on SEO in my archives under the SEO category if you’re keen for study materials. To launch your membership site you’re going to need an audience, and using a well search engine optimized blog has to be the most affordable (almost free) and long-term viable technique available. Yaro Starak.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Partner with a Programmer After they have their big idea, most non-technical founders set forth to find an engineer to form a partnership. You need to find someone to enter into a hopefully long-term relationship with. 11 hours ago Earliest I've been awake in a long time. Tags: startupcto. Blog at WordPress.com.

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www.chancebarnett.com

MAY 10, 2011

Traditionally this is a headline, image or tag line. Long story short, make sure you’re not talking about all the work that might go into your visitor getting the result they’re after. But the crazy thing is, most people’s email sign up forms on their landing pages are framed in this manner. It was farther removed than that.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Its object-orientation support is "much improved" - which is another way of saying its been horrendous for a long time. 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. As a language, its inelegant.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Formed in the name of "preventing lock-in" mainly as a competitive action by IBM and Microsoft in the midst of unseemly political knife-play with Sun, they went on to create massively complex layered specifications for conducting transactions across the Internet. Fine work, and many lessons learned , but sadly irrelevant to most of us.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. tags: hiring. While I’m sure this is assumed, as long as you’re being explicit about the steps of recruiting, it seems that the first step is creating and getting key stakeholders aligned around the recruiting approach and recruiting brief. Not logged in. [

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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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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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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

You have to constantly be clear about what you are trying to achieve, what metrics move the business forward, how to learn enough about something to form an opinion of it, and in what order you think doing things will set your business up to scale. If I proactively fill out a customer interest form, I expect some kind of response.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

This is a big reversal, as software has long been the dominant category for venture deals, but it’s unknown whether software has lost favor, or whether it’s just become so pervasive that it doesn’t really hold together as a category anymore. Long term, shake-outs are good for the industry, Paglia notes. Read more on TechCrunch [.]

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

Has this been through and passed some form of QA testing? Remember, if significant numbers of users adopt this feature, you could end up supporting it for a very long time. My God, How Long Will This Take? Besides, each individual question shouldn’t take that long to answer. Tags: startupcto. Like this post?

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Thoughts On The Dell Streak: I like the form factor. Thoughts On The Dell Streak: I like the form factor. Its also reached the point where I think people are being more creative with it because its been around so long and if you dont try and innovate you just get bored. Tags: startupcto. Some rights reserved.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 8, 2016

The trust would immediately evaporate if the readers find the news presented is just another form of advertising. 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. photo credit haro.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Most components in a modern data center are completely stateless, meaning they just do batches of work that is handed to them, but dont store any data long-term. We change the code to have all of the queries identified in step 3 tagged with the apporpriate entity URL that they affect. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

One doesnt really care what the Google box looks like as long as you get your search results back as soon as possible." Web design takes cues from all forms of graphic design, especially logo and branding work where colors are extremely important. Tags: startupcto. and green means responsible and eco-friendly."

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Thoughts On The Dell Streak: I like the form factor. Thoughts On The Dell Streak: I like the form factor. Its also reached the point where I think people are being more creative with it because its been around so long and if you dont try and innovate you just get bored. But then I don’t wear skinny jeans.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Many viral products have flamed out over the years, able to capture large numbers of users, but proving transient in their value because they failed to engage customers for the long-term. The ultimate form of engagement is when the company doesnt have to do anything explicit to make it happen. Positioning ( the battle for your mind ).

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