ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Whether you’re a conversion optimization agency, consultant, or in-house at a startup or enterprise, investing in the right conversion optimization tool is a big decision. Support is friendly but slow compared to VWO or Optimizely. Can offer much better data due to true user basis then tools like GO or Optimizely.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

How to Archive Past Tests? But if you have enough traffic, you should use both types of tests to maximize the output of your optimization program. Blending Optimization with Attribution. To begin optimization, you need to know what your users are doing and why – so start with research. How Long to A/B Test?

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

On2 designed video codec technology which Google used to optimize its WebM video format. The company specialized in optimizing online ad yield by simplifying ad display. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. Google uses ITAs software to optimize its travel and flight search.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 24, 2015

From tagging tweets and posts, to simply notifying business chambers and local media, you will find many venues and organizations that will be motivated to share your story on social media. Conversion Optimization. 7 Stages of a Total Online Presence Seminar Archive Yesterday I conducted an online seminar to over 1,300 small.

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

altgate » Blog Archive » Law Firm Wilson Sonsini Now Preparing … [.] altgate » Blog Archive » Law Firm Wilson Sonsini Now Preparing … [.] link] Marketing your Online Business – Effective Search Engine Optimization [.] altgate » Blog Archive » Law Firm Wilson Sonsini Now Preparing … [.]

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datacommunitydc.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Instead, you should focus on building your core product, optimizing your e-commerce funnel, growing your user base, developing user loyalty, and growing your inventory. This entry was posted in Commentary , Data Science DC , Methods , Rant and tagged data science , e-commerce , machine learning , recommendation engines. July 2013 (19).

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Marketing , SuperMac , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , SuperMac « Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions Gravity Will be Turned Off » 17 Responses EricS , on May 11, 2009 at 11:05 am Said: I loved my Spigot. It was fun watching it happen. So it made little practicle sense.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Once we commit to changing a website — whether our goal is to optimize for mobile or another reason — we must accept that change includes choosing what to save and what to delete. A mobile-optimized structure, however, leans towards a “taller” arrangement in addition to hierarchies. .” Related Articles.

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Altgate

MAY 3, 2009

The optimism of youth is often underrated! Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship and tagged Google , Larry Page , Search , Search Engine , Terry Winograd , University of Michigan , Web page , Web search engine. altgate » Blog Archive » Vivid Dreams: Larry Page Describes Google’s Origin [.]

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ConversionXL

MAY 24, 2013

In it’s core, A/B testing belongs to a category of Scientific Optimization techniques, where statistics is used to increase the odds that what your visitors see on your site is the best-performing version. A/B testing is a part of a wider, holistic conversion rate optimization process and should always be viewed as such.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Another huge aspect of being discoverable online is choosing the optimal name for your business. Make sure your Etsy tags and keywords are those which people can easily find you, both on Etsy and when searching for a particular item on Google. See Also What You Absolutely Cannot Afford to Forget When Pricing Your Products.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The topics at Startup School ranged from the history of Silicon Valley innovation and the history (and future) of startup funding, to testing your hypothesis, pivoting, and optimizing for happiness. Lecture topic : Luck, Bootstrapping, and Optimizing Your Happiness. Tags: Events. Tom Preston-Werner: Founder, GitHub.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2010

I don’t really talk about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) much on this blog anymore, mainly because I don’t believe much has really changed over the past few years. You will find plenty of articles on SEO in my archives under the SEO category if you’re keen for study materials. Yaro Starak.

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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. You have no chance of achieving an optimal marketing message on your first try. A good read.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 15, 2013

A lot of that has to do with the quality of the content, how well it’s optimized and how many other well ranking sites think it’s worth linking to. Instead of the default WordPress on page optimization the SEO plugin gives you the ability to change title, keyword and description meta data. Duplicate content. Scrapers love.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I havent decide how much more staffing will be optimal. Jason Thursday, October 09, 2008 Deleting … Approving … Join the nextNY mailing list, and check out our archives where this has been beaten to death over and over. Tags: startupcto. Rather, it is a proposal for sweat-equity investors. The gist: 1.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. Learn to properly prepare, position, research, value and negotiate for optimal price and structure at Selling Up, Selling Out, a half-day executive seminar for software and IT firm owners, investors and executives. Geek of the Week Archive.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

tags: lean startup ) Labels: customer development , events , lean startup , slides 8comments: Nivi said. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma. For customer development, start with Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany or take a look at his recent Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Lecture. Expo SF (May.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Given the choice of settling for a sub-optimal co-founder situation, continuing to search, going alone, or giving up, what should people do?

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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? Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 16th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 15, 2009 at 8:11 pm Said: [.] The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

The best ones know enough about Internet marketing (and search engine optimization) that they’ll be visible if they are looking for new projects. link] Categories: Start Ups Tags: consultant, cto, Engineering, start-up Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Leave a comment Trackback [.] Try Google. Also try a search on LinkedIn.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Unfortunately, its easy to lose track of positioning effects when optimizing for a single metric. This is a common problem that results from viral-loop optimization. Id be reluctant to do an A/B test which optimizes the engagement loop coefficient, for example. March 25, 2009 9:16 AM Jesse Farmer said. It all depends on: 1.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Or even ways to optimize the conversion flow of a website sign up process. Tags: business vs. technical , founders , meetups , realistic expectations , recruiting. Even if you have to pay them, it’s worth it given the number of qualified attendees that will probably show up. Passing On Founder’s Institute. link] scyphers.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Like premature optimization in the source code this leads to ugliness. Dala December 19, 2007 at 10:17 am BigBlueHat » Blog Archive » Review: 5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups December 27, 2007 at 2:41 pm 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR… « The Startup Guy. Tags: startupcto.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. tags: hiring. More recruiting articles by Dr. Sullivan can be found in the ER Daily archives. Not logged in. [ log in or register ]. Recruiting Intelligence. Recruiting Community.™ ™ All Articles. advertising. assessments. coldcalling. corporatecareerswebsite.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The Entrepreneur’s Achilles Heel: Optimism To be an entrepreneur requires great optimism, and a very strong belief in how much customers will love your product. Tagged with Business Model , CAC , Inbound Marketing , Low Cost Sales Model , LTV , Sales 2.0. Tags: startup metrics startupcto. LIAD new to this blog.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

To me, the optimal architecture is one that serves four goals simultaneously. Log-based data is often optimally stored in date-based partitions. We change the code to have all of the queries identified in step 3 tagged with the apporpriate entity URL that they affect. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Now, Andrew’s excellent piece that I quoted from above correctly diagnoses two situations where consumer internet companies often get in trouble: They focus too much on short-term revenue, getting caught in a local maximum via constant optimization. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

That said, the Customer Development process is just one of many ways to optimize the “hypothesis – feedback iteration loop.&# Helena Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Sometimes Leadership Means Executing the Plan , on August 25, 2009 at 6:48 am Said: [.]

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Software By Rob

MAY 21, 2010

Do you think it’s a waste of time at the pre-launch stage to a/b test your signup page/offer with a tool like Website Optimizer? #5 tags: startups entrepreneurship) [.] #9 Mint did a great job of driving beta signups by leveraging tons of linkbait content on their blog. 5 Rob on 05.21.10 at 10:01 pm [.] But solvable.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

In our world, the size (and growth rate) of the market on both sides (advertisers and optimizers) is in the end the competitive advantage. Once you’re doing this you’re not optimizing your own strategy anymore, you’re optimizing against the market’s current valuation of the strategies it sees. Tags: startupcto.

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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. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma. 100% of those tests ran, via a continuous integration cluster, after every checkin. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. Positioning ( the battle for your mind ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

This sounds like a good trade-off, but it turned out to be a classic sub-optimization. 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. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma. Expo SF (May.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

I suspect it would sound petty, but it provides a more theoretically optimal set of incentives. If you can, design for circumstances where, once youre ready to start talking about your idea, youre encouraging people to "disclose" your efforts. And that shouldnt require a contract at all. legal , nda , startups , trust. Embed: 13 Comments.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2010

(<30 sec) Write your local newspaper & tell them you support the Startup Visa Act Call your senators & let them know you support Startup Visa legislation Add the Startup Visa Widget to your blog or website Follow the #startupvisa hash tag on Twitter and voice your support Contribute to Startup Visa so we can spread the word!

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