Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

The motto of Microaid is the proverb of teaching a person to fish so that they can feed themselves for a lifetime. You don’t want to accept a loan only to later default on it. The post MicroAid: Helping Entrepreneurs Rise Out of Poverty appeared first on Bplans Blog. Share internet access. Get the word out.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! – [link]. What Are The Odds?

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 10, 2023

A popular default of most small business owners and entrepreneurs is to work, work, and overwork, but that’s not a good habit for your mind or body. Exercise – I know, based on most of my Weekly Wake Ups, it’s pretty obvious that my work out routine is what keeps me in check. The post You First. If you take care of yourself.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Brown punched up his argument, no doubt, for attention. Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment. Their exclusivity also feeds our desire to be “in the know.”. Might as well dream up one that amuses the target audience. The “secrecy heuristic”. Image source ).

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Brown punched up his argument, no doubt, for attention. Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment. Their exclusivity also feeds our desire to be “in the know.”. Might as well dream up one that amuses the target audience. The “secrecy heuristic”. Image source ).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2022

Brennan is the Co-founder of RightMessage, writes weekly at Create & Sell, and wrapping up a new book on personalized marketing. 18:59] Do you have any data to back up the willingness people have to give you more information when you share how it will benefit them? [22:15] And the, the finish line is coming up.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

If you have a reading list that is as long as mine, Goodreads is a lifesaver as it allows you to unload your brain and toss the Post-it notes reminding you to buy this or that book. It’s up to you to choose whether or not to respond to these queries. Goodreads extension. goodreads.com. A word to the wise.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Parent company ByteDance sees the path to purchase as an infinite loop: People discover, consider, and buy products, then post about their purchases and spread awareness. Its For You Page (“FYP”), TikTok’s version of the home feed on Twitter or Facebook, is an infinite video stream. Why should your brand be on TikTok?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

And famously one person reportedly bought an engagement ring and his soon-to-be fiancée discovered this inadvertently through an automatic posting. I’ve often had the debate about Facebook Open Graph and what is appropriate to post in it. My own view is that for most services it is explicit actions (likes, shares, vote ups, etc.)

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Even more have tried and never got past a dozen posts. My somewhat up-to-date VC People Feedly collection has 139 feeds in it. But I stopped being rigorous about adding new people about a year ago and rarely added feeds that were directly on firm websites, so I expect there are probably closer to 500 active VC bloggers now.

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Brandanew

JUNE 26, 2015

Most of us often end up making a fool out of ourselves or hitting a dead end after reaching 500-1000 followers. Retaining the default user image (boring!). Are you one of those who finds Twitter’s default user image appealing enough to stick around on your profile? yes, eggs are good for breakfast, not on your profiles).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Eric Ries : I had to do the math, and it's dangerous to do the math live, but I had to look up on Wikipedia the number of English-speaking internet users, which is about 1.1 The case fatality rate, the number of people who died, divided by the people who officially have the flu in the US, we can look that up. T omas Pueyo : Yeah.

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techblog.netflix.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

The rest of the time was taken to boot Linux, start the Apache Tomcat JVM that runs our automation tooling, start the Cassandra JVM and join the "ring" that makes up the Cassandra data store. Each new node buddies up and splits the data and load of one of the existing nodes so that data doesnt have to be reshuffled too much.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Don’t share the details of your manufacturing process with customers until you’ve locked up your intellectual property.” We’ll talk about the implications of what vertical market you’re entering in the next few posts. The post is not written for “insiders&# or domain experts inside a vertical.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Read the previous Ardent post for context.) All of a sudden I decided that I hadn’t heard the sound of my own voice in a while so I piped up: “I think our customers will want 24-bits of double-buffered graphics.” Lessons learned: Corporate culture is either set by fiat, by default, or by consensus. And he was smiling.

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dallasbass.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Yesterday, I came across a blog post which caught me off guard. The title of the post is “ 5 Reasons Why Responsive Design Is Not Worth It ” and surprisingly, it wasn’t satire. I disagree with all points the original post made and here is why. Dallas Bass. thisisdallas. September 26, 2012. What does that mean?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 2, 2016

So how are the branding and marketing efforts of the candidates stacking up to date? Verdict: Clinton, mostly by default. How do Trump and Clinton stack up? But just because voter social media posts aren’t necessarily as influential doesn’t mean social media isn’t having an impact. The upside?

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Posted on January 31, 2013. Don’t skip this post because you’re not a Rails developer. They permitted attackers to execute arbitrary code on virtually ever Ruby on Rails application, without requiring that the application do anything to enable the attack other than “be hooked up to the Internet.”

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Nations v Digital Colonialists: The most recent play from Facebook turning off news in their Australian feed (responding to proposed news-media legislation), should’ve been expected. The post The New Tech Battle appeared first on Steve Sammartino. They are well within their rights to decide what they allow on their service.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Although LinkedIn gets a lot of love as a professional social media site, Twitter is a force that can’t be ignored by up-and-coming young professionals. Instead of leaving the default avatar or uploading an image, add a photo of yourself. But how exactly can you use Twitter for professional development? But bigger isn’t always better.

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www.smashingmagazine.com

MAY 5, 2011

Simplifying Sign-Ups The purpose of every sign-up form is for users to complete it successfully and send it in. Ask for a User Name After The User Has Signed Up Sign-up forms typically ask users to create a name that is unique to the website. Most designers are familiar with the conventional ways.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Of course that assumes that are consistently feeding your blog high quality, keyword rich, educational content. Today I want to focus on the most important SEO factors for bloggers and talk a little about how you can do a few things to modify your blog’s default settings and get even more optimization.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 15, 2013

The hardest working plugin in my WordPress set up is the WordPress SEO Plugin from Yoast. The function that most might be familiar with is the ability to customize many of the elements that search engines use to determine page content on a post by post and page by page case. If You Liked This Post. : Scrapers love.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

This post is part of my ongoing series Twitter 101 for all those that still “don’t get” Twitter. In an earlier post I spoke about the asymmetric nature of Twitter vs. Facebook. The default setting and behavior on Facebook has been “private” and therefore you need permission to follow my status updates.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Don’t wait to see a job posting : Actual startup job postings may not show up for quite some time, especially among those in the early stage. Rather than waiting to see if they’ll pop up, get engaged with the startup early on to express your interest. This article was first posted in Online MBA.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Many of you who read my podcast launch post requested full transcripts as well. Sam was one of the first people I saw in the tech world jumping up and taking the leadership position related to COVID-19. Was there a single moment for you that you remember where you woke up and said, "Wow, this really is real."

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Posted on August 13, 2012. I’m as guilty of this as anyone, so I wrote up my observations about un-borking this as The Black Arts of SaaS pricing a few months ago. (It They woke me up today, as a matter of fact — apparently I had misconfigured a cronjob last night.). by Patrick. in ab-testing. Predictable pricing.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The subject of measuring market size comes up every few weeks in my interactions with startup founders, and one point I always raise is the difference between a top-down and bottom-up approach. In that case, bottom-up is a better choice.

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Email Posts Get Connected Subscribe to our Feed Join our Google Group Discussion Follow @StartupBmore on Twitter Find us on Facebook Join our Mailing List News Advice Profiles Events Startup Breakfast + Workshop Startup 101 New? There’s still tons of work to do in building up a robust environment for Internet companies here.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

This post will focus on the second point, because a usable form will naturally contribute to the overall usability of the website, hence the first aspect. The natural pauses in a conversation will indicate where to introduce white space, how to group labels and whether to break the form up over multiple pages. Conclusion The Beginning.

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designshack.co.uk

JUNE 8, 2011

072087974 20 Great Sign Up Form Examples to Learn From Written by Joshua Johnson , Published On 1st April 2011. Tweet Sign up forms come in many different shapes and sizes. Be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed and follow us on Twitter to stay up on recent content. Filed in Inspiration. Like the article?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

We all have a tendency to learn up to a point, we get comfortable and keep chugging along rarely investing in our ongoing education. If there is one thing you take away from it post I hope it is the importance in investing in yourself / your education / your ongoing awesomeness. Remember that, at least for the rest of this post.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 13, 2014

One Simple Way to Generate More Traffic for Every Blog Post written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing So you write that killer blog post, hit publish and go about promoting it in social media and email. I’ve installed a WordPress plugin call Buffer My Post written by Ajay Matharu.

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Up and Running

MARCH 30, 2011

You will then donate $1 for every like to this charity up to a certain number (100 in this case) of “likes”. You could post the picture of your baby or pet on their website and of course contestants promoted their baby or pet through their networks. Set a figure you would like to donate (say it’s $100) to your favorite charity.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

They basically skewed the number of positive or negative items on random users’ news feeds and then analyzed these people’s future postings. Read any advertising history book to see the messed up tactics they’d use to manipulate readers. The Power of Defaults. The power of defaults ? The result?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 19, 2023

They will be taken into account for every response by default. It is set to “On” by default: You can bookmark that specific chat you use for training your ChatGPT. Generate 10 tweets, 1 detailed Facebook post, and one detailed LinkedIn update for me to promote this article on social media. Add relevant hashtags and emojis.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The Apache Software Foundation can hardly keep up with the pipeline of cool new technologies. Anyway the point of this post is really just to riff on the data from simplyhired , as per the graph above. This entry was written by James Governor and posted on September 3, 2010 at 3:06 pm and filed under Java.

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