Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

To name a few: Digital Marketing & Measurement Model | Analytics Ecosystem | Web Analytics 2.0. 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. Slice the matrix vertically along the time-to-useful dimension….

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Chapter 4: Brand Identity Design: the Building Blocks of Your Brand Identity. Chapter 5: Designing Your Brand Identity. Put another way: a designer’s job isn’t to design a brand. Designers design the brand identity (explained in Chapter 5 ). Chapter 2: Creating Your Brand Strategy. style guide.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2018

It’s in your best interest to make sure that every logo design choice is intentional and communicates the message you want to convey. Thoughtless design choices lead to misleading or confusing logos. The Psychology of Fonts in Logo Design. Most important, be sure that the company’s name is legible and readable.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Customers went into the store either looking for the SuperMac product by name (if our demand creation activities had been effective) or went in unsure of which brand of board to buy. The design was actually a negative drag on selling anything off a retail shelf. From grumbling skeptics, they all became packaging design converts.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Yarina, Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global, was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Healthcare, one of many awards the company has received for its work. The name of our company, Sisu, means, in Finnish, persevering in the face of adversity. Little did I realize how apt of a name that would be.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2023

They both run on open AI's GPT model, and both are designed to help you get more done and to grow your business faster. So put a vertical line down the center and on the top of the left hand column, put words to lose on top of the right hand column, put words to use. It really is the quickest way to make complex ideas.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 23, 2019

The goal of information architects is to come up with a structure and design that balances users’ desires with business needs. Information architecture should also include little things, like deciding that products on a search page should be ordered by price not name. Your website should be designed for somebody, not everybody.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In the Fall of 2008, the credit crisis wiped out mergers and acquisitions as a path to liquidity as M&A collapsed with the rest of the market. We have in our partnership a gent by the name of Barry Fidelman who puts us all to shame with his intensity. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. So what’s left?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2014

If we can assume that a searcher’s goal is to find the product that’s right for them, there are some essential principles that go into designing a search experience that will get them to the exact product they’re looking for with as little hassle as possible. Button design. Understanding how people view websites.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

This will include: Registering your business name. As the name suggests, the liabilities of Limited Liability Companies are generally not passed on to the owners. Once you’re on this page, you will see a vertical navigation on the left side of your account. eBay will guide you through the rest of the process.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Steve my name is Donald xx, and I’m the head of external affairs of the CIA’s venture capital firm and we’d like you to keynote our conference.” Except at this VC conference, 100 or so of the 300 attendees had badges that had their first name and only the last initial of their last name. (And But some of it was sticking.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia met at the Rhode Island School of Design and became roommates in San Francisco in 2007. A prominent design conference was coming to town and the nearby hotels were sold out. The name was shortened to “Airbnb” and they launched their website in 2009. Talk about a business with humble roots.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Depending on your specialty (the vertical bar of your T), you may gravitate toward one language or the other. name, location) into a variant. While it fetches data, it continues to run and loads the rest of the page (until it receives the new version and alters the UI). T,” as in your T-shape. JavaScript has way more libraries.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2013

The end goal of information architects is to come up with a structure / design that balances the users’ desires with the business’s needs. Information architecture should also include little things like deciding that products on a search page should be ordered by price rather than by name. Content precedes design. Plan for it!

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Founded in 2008, Shanghai-based CooTek is the company behind TouchPal X Keyboard and TouchPal Contacts , which lets you type contact names directly on your smartphone’s dial pad. She explains that the user interface and user experience can be copied easily if design is your product hook. She explains three different approaches to take.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Where are the charitable foundations, business schools and hospitals named after him? Sure one guy got kicked out – which could have been avoided if he ran company well enough to keep financial control – and the other hung in there and got institutions named after him. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Who was he?

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. Mapping programs, CAD, circuit design, EMF simulators, speech-to-text… the documentation was disorganized and ambiguous, and the interfaces looked like they were designed for Windows 3.1. It applies the three competitive advantages I named to the open source world.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

Design your graphics, pre-show promotion, literature and show directory advertising around your focused message and theme. Look for locations near entrances, food concessions, rest rooms, seminar rooms, or close to major exhibitors. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. IBM doesn’t have to shout to get noticed, but you do.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

By taking advantage of TikTok’s vertical split-screen, the ad cleverly demonstrates the before and after effects of the product to show its USP. Enter basic information about your business, including name, country/region, time zone, and currency. Set a campaign name and budget. Shoot videos vertically in 9:16 aspect ratio.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

The rest of y’all are missing out, seriously. The newsletters practically write themselves off the usual template, with slightly different graphics and a find/replace for the name of the holiday and tracking codes. Designed by. Application of the advice therein has made tens of thousands of dollars. startupcto

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Web Design. Design Patterns. UI Design. Responsive Design , Strategy. Designing websites for smartphones is easy compared to retrofitting those already in place. Prior to the iPhone’s introduction in mid-2007, designers could rely on windows at least 700 pixels wide (if they ignored accessibility).

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

By connecting Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and the rest of the state into a Texas S tartup Megatropolis we can unlock billions of dollars in capital and unleash thousands of diverse entrepreneurs. Edwards, Texas A&M, Texas State, Texas Tech, and Trinity to name a few. Our community colleges are excellent as well.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). The rest is history. Amazon has obviously designed its Kindle Fire system on top of an Android variant. The Amazon situation vis-a-vis Apple is more severe.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

It wasn’t a lack of competence or skill in her job; it was just that as far as she was concerned, her job had no connection to the rest of marketing, our customers or our ultimate success as a company. “We All with names, addresses, phone numbers, job titles; all wonderful data longing for human contact. Silence.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

I started my business namely to help others and to improve upon the aloof customer service being presented in the IT industry. That’s what spawned the idea that I can do better and namely how computer users deserved much better. At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Here’s how to go about designing a home page that converts. This is the process I’m using when evaluating or designing home pages. You don’t need to hire an expensive logo designer. A designer from Edicy took just 15 minutes to create this logo for an imaginary company: Image credit: Tajo Oja.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

If you’re a startup raising money or just want to see your name online, there’s not a better blog on the web. It’s been thirty years, but every once an awhile I still wonder what happened to the rest of their lives. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. By the time I came back to the United States, he was gone from the company.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

And Pinterest lights up around home design, apparel, food and other commercial items. (I But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. The rest is just semantics. Name (required). Andres Moran. Matt DeLoca.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1- Combined my last name and what I do. My last name is Sorter, and I write. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

I’m sure its customers wonder, “Why is an organic grocer named RydeOn?”. 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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ConversionXL

JUNE 3, 2014

What goes on in the rest of the page plays a huge role. So, let’s take look at what to do with the info you have – namely how that plays into the design and copy of CTA buttons. Role Of Design In Call To Action Buttons. So we know that there are two main elements to all CTA buttons – design and copy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Logo design with bright colors, creative typography, and signage mock-up by zeste/crowdspring. New logo trends and fads in logo design appear every year. Stripes, letter stacking, fades and geometric shapes were popular logo types in logo design last year. Not all modern logo design trends are equal. 3- Be versatile.

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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. >> There are some other serious reasons why we dont want to go public right now. Ford said, “Produce it anyway.”

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ConversionXL

MARCH 22, 2013

Google is a strong advocate of responsive design. Mashable named 2013 “The Year of Responsive Design” But is responsive web design actually the answer to boosting mobile conversions? The process of trying to buy something from a desktop design site with a smartphone can be summed up with one word – pain.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

The ESL equipment were racks of the latest semiconductors designed into a system so complicated that the mean-time-between-failure was measured in days. Before leaving California, the engineers gave me a course in this specialized receiver design. I was in between the two thinking of this movie scene. (At he asked me.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 6, 2012

You would benefit immensely from a quality designer. Your main headline is the name of the product, but it doesn’t tell anything to the user. Design a proper sign-up form. I don’t think any thought was put in this when designing this site. Design a desired user path, and tweak your site accordingly.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2009

Our receptionists’ desk was built on the wing of a WWII P-51 fighter plane, and the rest of the office décor matched. This was about the time Christies and Sotheby’s were starting to auction Soviet space program artifacts , and I was thinking that perhaps a spacesuit in the lobby would be appropriate given our name.

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