Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

If you understand why each metric is where it is, the rest of this post will fill you with euphoric joy rarely experienced without physical contact. They are high in the hierarchy due to their positive impact on both the business and the company culture – thus delivering a soft and hard advantage. Reflect on the above picture.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The VP of Sales comes to a board meeting, still optimistic, and provides a set of reasonable explanations – “our pipeline looks great, but orders will close next quarter” or “we’ve got lots of traffic to our site, we just need to work on conversion.” Just had a conversation today with a student taking Steve’s class.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 9, 2016

Typically, when people think of false bottoms, they think of vertical scrolling. Due to the rise of mobile, horizontal scrolling has become somewhat familiar as well. Research is an important part of any conversion. By not designing to accommodate scrolling, you’re taking away that part of the conversion.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Twitter and Facebook can generate traffic, but when it comes to getting an immediate action, like a sales conversation, I’d rather hang out where business is being done, not where news articles and cat videos are consumed. Who cares: we want the shortest path to a conversation, not necessarily traffic to your site. Open rates: 70%+.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

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Venture Chronicles

APRIL 19, 2010

This is the point of my post title, NetSuite really is The Forgotten Man, not receiving the respect it is due so I wanted to get caught up and what I found reinforced impressions I already had but also revealed a more complex and interesting company that I expected.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> The technical side is fairly easy, and many people could do it. Our idea is boring and not revolutionary.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

See the Lofty AI pitch in the category of Innovative World Technology , 5 pm to 6 pm Saturday, March 14, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. With the exception of Lofty AI, what tech trend is your team most excited about? What was the most overhyped tech trend of 2019? If you had bought one of our A.I.’s

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

You may also want to consider measuring social media engagement and keeping an eye on your online reviews. Make your feedback process a conversation so that your customers know that their input is valued. No matter what method you use, make sure that you’re engaging with your customers in a conversation. User personas.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This reminded me of a conversation with one of my direct reports years before my daughter was born. Once he was on board, I sat down with him on a weekly basis to review our progress with our list of software vendors. Our conversation went like this: Me: Jim, how are we doing with getting Ansys ported? Me: How about Dyna 3D ?

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

The rest of y’all are missing out, seriously. Here’s a “conversion” I’d like to get out of everyone in our space: I want you to start A/B testing, because it will make you a substantial amount of money. This is not some kind of scam that “works” on the technology-challenged.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

Their national technical means of verification made the world a safer place and hastened the end of the Soviet Union and the Cold War.) Her husband would look at me out the corner of his eyes and then we’d segue the conversation to some other topic. By the time I came back to the United States, he was gone from the company.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. Like UI designers, usability testers, product managers, user researchers, visual designers, information architects, technical writers, testers, user experience testers and — yes — marketers.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2014

Then we went into my 3 favorite methods for increasing conversions by improving the search experience. A closer look reveals the search functionality just blends into the rest of the design, and isn’t intuitive to find when needed. In another case study , LED HUT was able to increase site search conversions by 200%.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

In February, Greylock kicked off “Iconversations,” a new speaker series featuring “icons” across tech, finance, media and culture. You can listen to the conversation on the Greymatter podcast here. It was a full service travel agency tech platform that was quite old and it was quite problematic. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT. I’m 0 for 2.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

It’s impossible to predict what tech revolution will make mobile design feel antiquated, but we can take reasonable steps to ease the transition. In each page, seek one sentence that sums up the rest of the page. Ideas such as these demonstrate the power of creating content without a specific use. Moving Forward.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

It starts before the technology development even gets underway, says Stanford University computer science professor Dr. Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. In June, HAI launched the Ethics and Society Review Board. You can listen to the conversation here.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

It starts before the technology development even gets underway, says Stanford University computer science professor Dr. Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. In June, HAI launched the Ethics and Society Review Board. You can listen to the conversation here.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

oz burgers as fast as possible, and commit the rest of your career to an endless series of McDonalds menus. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. You have a CEO that clearly hasn’t taken the time to understand a technology platform. ability based on one of many technologies. Help your business out.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2015

This is due to many reasons, mainly: a lack of credibility. plain old ‘ banner blindness ‘ Banner blindness is largely due to the fact that most people read in a F-shaped Pattern online: Image Source. Further reading: The Effects of Typography On User Experience and Conversions. doesn’t meet expectations. Image Source.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

As we are now in 2015, midway through the second decade of the new millennium, I thought I’d reflect on shifts I am seeing in culture, commerce and technology. That is a type of technology which could become a species threat before we realise what we’ve created. The first thought is pretty obvious. Bring it on.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

As we are now in 2015, midway through the second decade of the new millennium, I thought I’d reflect on shifts I am seeing in culture, commerce and technology. That is a type of technology which could become a species threat before we realise what we’ve created. The first thought is pretty obvious. Bring it on.

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