Tue.Oct 04, 2016

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How to Make More Money With Bayesian A/B Test Evaluation

ConversionXL

The traditional (and most used) approach to analyzing A/B tests is to use a so-called t-test , which is a method used in frequentist statistics. While this method is scientifically valid, it has a major drawback: if you only implement significant results, you will leave a lot of money on the table. In this blogpost, I will argue why a post-hoc Bayesian test evaluation is a better evaluation method than a frequentist one for growing your business.

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How Mindfulness Can Boost Your Creativity and Productivity

crowdSPRING Blog

Image Source: Evolation Yoga. If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past two decades, you’ve probably at least had a passing encounter with the term “mindfulness,” whether it was seeing the term splashed on magazine covers, listening to self-help gurus extol its value on daytime talk shoes, or hearing your own therapist encourage its application in your day to day life.

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No wait, of course THAT is the single most important SaaS metric

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The single most important SaaS metric is retention , because cancellations indicate lack of product/market fit, no matter the cause (price, features, severity of need, duration of need). If it cannot be fixed, it means the business is a failure even if other metrics are stellar. Once you’re scaling (i.e. past product/market fit and into tens of millions in revenue), you realize that cancellation scales with total customers whereas growth scales with sales and marketing costs, which means cancell

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How Mindfulness Can Boost Your Creativity and Productivity

crowdSPRING Blog

Image Source: Evolation Yoga. If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past two decades, you’ve probably at least had a passing encounter with the term “mindfulness,” whether it was seeing the term splashed on magazine covers, listening to self-help gurus extol its value on daytime talk shoes, or hearing your own therapist encourage its application in your day to day life.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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Dreamforce: way, way more than a user conference

deal architect

Five years ago, I called Dreamforce a “rainbow coalition” given the wide range of musicians, politicians, and guest executives you could see on the stage and often run into the luminaries on the floor. If that was diverse, you should.

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How Mindfulness Can Boost Your Creativity and Productivity

crowdSPRING Blog

Image Source: Evolation Yoga. If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past two decades, you’ve probably at least had a passing encounter with the term “mindfulness,” whether it was seeing the term splashed on magazine covers, listening to self-help gurus extol its value on daytime talk shoes, or hearing your own therapist encourage its application in your day to day life.

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Mentors 13/18: Guide, Don’t Control

Feld Thoughts

It’s been a while since I wrote a post deconstructing the Techstars Mentor Manifesto. The last one I wrote was number 12 of 18: Know What You Don’t Know. Say I Don’t Know When You Don’t Know. Since I’m now working on the first draft of my next book #GiveFirst (or maybe it’ll be called Give First, or GiveFirst – I haven’t decided yet) it’s time to get my s**t together and write the last six posts.

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5 Things You Must Do To Run Your Business

YoungUpstarts

by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. As an entrepreneur, your days will be filled with surprises and unexpected lessons. You must manage through them, correcting course as necessary, to keep realizing your vision for your company. While there are many tasks you must juggle to do this, these five tips will help you stay grounded as an entrepreneur: 1.

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6 HR Mistakes That Can Be Costly For Your Startup

YFS Magazine

From initial entity incorporation to managing payroll, a founder is responsible for every aspect of the company — including compliance with all local, state and national laws.

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Tech Talk: Is Your Business Utilizing Modern Facilities To The Max?

YoungUpstarts

Building and maintaining a successful business isn’t easy. Therefore, every entrepreneur should be eager to utilize any facility or asset that can help their cause. In modern business, embracing technology is the greatest option by far. Virtually all companies will use these systems in some shape or form. The real question, however, is whether you’re making the most of those opportunities.

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Turning coffee into Bitcoin

Eric Friedman

I few months ago I had to lower my coffee consumption and was struggling to find the best way to “force” myself to do so. Nothing major prompted the change, but wanted a catalyst to really stop. I have been following Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency for awhile, and thought I would use this as a way to get more. In looking at all my options I figured out a way to turn coffee into Bitcoin…sort of.

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Tips To Find A Top Workers Compensation Lawyer

YoungUpstarts

If you have been injured while on the job and need to hire a workers compensation lawyer you should first educate yourself about some of the laws in regards to workers compensation claims. The country has specific laws governing the claim process, which a qualified and knowledgeable attorney, like the ones at Woodgrange Solicitors will understand. When you begin your search for a workers compensation attorney, you should use some tips found here to help expedite your search.

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How To Produce Amazing Content That Will Boost Your Site’s SEO Ranking

YFS Magazine

Have you ever wondered why your website converting like it should?

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CognitiveScale Closes on $25 Million in Funding with Investment from Microsoft Ventures

SiliconHills

CognitiveScale, an Austin-based startup specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning, announced Tuesday it has closed on $25 million in funding including a strategic investment from Microsoft Ventures. The Austin-based startup, founded in 2013, reports the Microsoft investment will help the company develop applications based on Microsoft HoloLens and Microsoft Azure for consumers and businesses. […] The post CognitiveScale Closes on $25 Million in Funding with Investment fr

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Photographer Finds Niche with Newborns

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Photographer Finds Niche with Newborns appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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You’re Employees Aren’t Like You

Austin Startup

October 9, 2016: This week’s essay takes a look at the personnel issues of trying to scale a company. A young entrepreneur inspired this… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Should I use an employment agency when hiring?

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Should I use an employment agency when hiring? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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MedTechTX 2016 Live Blog Day Two

SiliconHills

Live Blog MedTechTX 2016 Day Two The post MedTechTX 2016 Live Blog Day Two appeared first on SiliconHills.

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This quote by Mark Twain nails how I want to live my life

Jeff Hilimire

Mark Twain said (and wrote) a lot of things that I don’t agree with, but this quote really connected with me when I first heard it: “Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” Yes, let’s.

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Twitter Marketing: A Small Business Guide

Up and Running

Nowadays, having a presence on social media is a marketing necessity. When brands have a social media presence, they are positioning themselves in front of customers, and it’s clear that this actually has an impact. It has been found that 46 percent of web users look to social media before making a purchase, and 67 percent of Twitter users are more likely to buy from brands they follow on Twitter.