ConversionXL

JANUARY 31, 2014

'What follows is a list of resources that can be applied specifically to landing page optimization, found here on ConversionXL & from other great websites around the web. We’ve organized everything to best simulate a visitor’s experience on a landing page from first click to final conversion. To get the most out of this guide, please use each resource to focus on one area of your landing page experience at a time.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 31, 2014

'Yoav Vilner is the CEO and co-founder of Ranky.co , a growth hacking and online marketing team. If you are one of TNW’s many readers, there’s a good chance you might be a product owner, creator, or the marketer of one. And as such, you are no stranger to guest blogging. In fact, guest contributions as a generic method started years before Google even existed – when columnists in newspapers got a one-off in a non-competitive magazine related to their field of writing, such as Sports or Fashion.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 31, 2014

'How do you get your people to perform? By being the best boss that ever happened to them. The very top leaders drive bottom-line results for a company because they improve the lives of their employees. I know that being a boss is hard. And I know that being an extraordinary boss is even harder. But, it’s work with a high return on investment. Employees with an extraordinary leader are engaged, and engaged employees are more productive and motivated—they produce higher-quality work, take fewer s

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2014

'It’s time for more entrepreneurs to reset their focus, and shift their thinking to completely different ways of doing things. Everyone talks about innovation, but the majority of business plans I see still reflect linear thinking – one more social network with improved usability, one more wind-farm energy generator with a few more blades, or one more dating site with a new dimension of compatibility.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2014

'by Cynthia Griffith, author of “ The Sun Village Project “ While it may seem as if the United States’ places of interest have been pretty consistent over the years, the truth is that the landscape of this country is ever changing. Today, the population is rising in cities you might never have expected and for those who live and work in these locations, their reasons to maintain residency are endless.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 31, 2014

'It can be hard to remember the digital world before real-time; the speed at which conversations and stories race through the Internet and their momentum add a new dimension to reputation management. Anyone active on Facebook, Twitter, or the likes will have seen at least one social media crisis unfold. And let’s be honest, there’s a certain schadenfreude to be had in witnessing a big brand endeavor to hold back negative tweets.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 31, 2014

'Two years ago Facebook had $0 from mobile and everyone was wondering if they would survive the transition away from the desktop. As you can see from the chart above 53% of their ad revenues now come from mobile. That’s an amazing story of business transformation, and their share price is now around the $60 mark valuing the company at c$150bn, up from $104bn at IPO in May 2012.

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VC Adventure

JANUARY 31, 2014

'Lots of people talk about being transparent. Lots of companies espouse principles of transparency. Lots of statements start out with “I like to be transparent” or “I’m being transparent when I say …” And several years ago the notion of transparency became the new in thing, especially around the VC and startup worlds.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 31, 2014

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Every great business starts on the back of a napkin, said Evan Loomis, co-founder of TreeHouse, a sustainable home improvement store. He sketched out his plans for TreeHouse during a ski trip with some friends in Boulder, Colorado. A few years later he left his investment banking […] The post To Raise Funds, Entrepreneurs Need To Raise Friends First appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2014

'Innography, the innovative software provider of better intellectual property answers for improved business results, today announces the company has completed a new round of funding aimed at fueling product expansion and overall growth.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 31, 2014

'I was just talking with Alan Fawcett about life, and work, and more life and more work. During our conversation Alan said something that hit me like a ton of bricks. It’s our constant quest for work-life balance, that keeps us out of balance. Wow! If we just let things be, all will be right in the world. If we stop trying to fix everything, things will improve on their own.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2014

'The Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), part of the IC2 Institute at The University of Texas at Austin (UT), hosted a graduation event to recognize 25 companies who successfully graduated from the incubator over the past two years. ATI will also celebrate its 25th anniversary, and announce the winners of the Laura J. Kilcrease Civic Entrepreneurship Award and the new John S.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 31, 2014

'Athenahealth announced plans to put a research and development center in Austin with plans to create 600 new jobs. The company, founded in 1997, provides cloud-based health information services for electronic medical records and other medical documents. It plans to occupy 110,000 square feet of the Seaholm Power Plant redevelopment project in downtown Austin and […] The post Athenahealth Picks Austin for R&D Center and Plans to Create 600 Jobs appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2014

'Querium Corporation has launched an adaptive learning program to enable prospective Texas college students to prepare for the mathematics portion of the new Texas Success Initiative (TSI) Assessment. Querium’s TSI Math Prep, built on an A.I.-based learning platform, is designed to rapidly identify students’ strengths and weaknesses, deliver an optimized learning path for the TSI, and advance students as soon as they demonstrate mastery.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2014

'Talkwalker Now Integrates with HootSuite written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing I’ve written in the past about the tools I use for social engagement. Today, two of those tools came together in the form of a Talkwalker app for Hootsuite. I use Talkwalker to get alerts for keywords like my brand and name and the titles of my books.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 31, 2014

'Every now and again I’m just going to have to write a post about how much I love my new company, Dragon Army. Every morning I get here I feel like the luckiest guy in the world. We’re making video games! And we’re making them the way WE want to make them. The team of 13 we’ve assembled is really starting to gel and I’m incredibly excited to be on this journey with them.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2014

'Everybody knows Sir Richard Branson , founder of the Virgin Group. With an estimated net worth of US$4.6 billion, Branson is financially successful beyond anybody’s wildest dreams. His Virgin Group of 400 companies hires some 50,000 employees around the world, generating over £15 billion in revenue last year. The highly diversified conglomerate includes businesses in travel, banking, music, mobile services, Internet, film, video games, and most recently space tourism.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 31, 2014

'Among the Bay Area’s coffee purveyors few are as well-loved as Philz. CEO Jacob Jaber has made sure the personal touch is maintained through fast growth – 14 current locations – caffeinating artists, designers, engineers and everyday people. I recently had the chance to ask Jacob a few questions about how their business has grown and the role of technology.

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