I’ve just tested a WordPress plugin called Simple Page Tester that promises to let you easily split test a page or post without having to do any coding. In fact, I’ll quote the promises it makes here: » Conduct really simple split testing with a step by step interface. » Track your results easily with goals in Google Analytics. MORE >>

We at NextView Ventures often invest in a startup’s first round alongside other funds; either seed stage focused ones like ourselves or larger traditional firms.  Just as often, however, we’re investing alongside individual angel investors who are participating in the round as well.  Angel investors come in many shapes and sizes, however.  MORE >>

I've written before about how the very first email to an angel investor really matters, or at least to this angel investor. It's very easy to get thrown in a bucket of wannabes or bad first-timers. Here are a few of those red flags from my perspective. Sending an email through a service. My email is really easy to find. Financial consultants. MORE >>

I first heard the word “ grinfucker ” a decade or so ago from a close friend who was a former investment banker. He said, in response to a meeting we were in with a person who was very polite and charming “he’s such a grinfucker.” ” I loved the word and, as I found out later, it described the person perfectly. MORE >>

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She’s a painter and a self-proclaimed Bohemian. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. And she didn’t start her company in Northern California. Tracy built her company, Recycled Media , out of necessity. She hasn’t raised any venture capital. MORE >>