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. A succinct description of the organization is that MicroAid facilitates acquiring the skills required to run viable businesses in small communities, instead of just jumping in and taking out a loan.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In this post, I’ll provide an overview of these recent developments as well as a sense of the grand vision I see forming for Lightning around payments and Web3 applications. Other businesses are pushing mainstream Lightning adoption for shopping. First off, a quick reminder on what Lightning is and how it works.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

This tool will suit a wide variety of businesses. Easily my favorite project management tool, this is also one that I know a number of larger businesses use. Of course, if you’re operating a business, it’s not always a good idea to work in a bubble. How do you get good ideas for ads for your business if you block them off?

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

What type of risk does the continued anti-vax movement fuelled on social media pose to our post-COVID economy? We need Algorithmic Nutrition Panels that clearly outline what we are seeing and why, plus the ability to turn them off in our feeds. The post It’s time to fix social media. – – – Keep Thinking, Steve.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 10, 2023

We hear the terms self care and body before business thrown around a lot. 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. I’ve fallen into the common rut of focusing on my business and putting my well being last.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2022

Key Takeaway: The internet has changed the way we do business. Their location, economy, and finances can influence how consumers engage with your business. So how does a virtual business replicate the vital in-person experience? What stage of their business are they at? But that doesn’t mean consumers are all the same.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

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.”. Educating the secret with business-wide efforts to increase real strategic value. The post Want to Know a Secret? Scarcity and reactance theory. Conclusion.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

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.”. Educating the secret with business-wide efforts to increase real strategic value. The post Want to Know a Secret? Scarcity and reactance theory. Conclusion.

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Brandanew

JUNE 26, 2015

Whether it is a business account or a personal one, it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea to stick to keeping tweets attractive and followable – it requires a little attention to detail. Retaining the default user image (boring!). Actually, a lot if you’re aiming at gaining followers. Favoriting it all (like, like, unlike!).

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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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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 26, 2022

For ecommerce business owners and marketers, jumping on this bandwagon is different to jumping on Facebook and Instagram. This hashtag has become a one-stop TikTok shop for the weird and wonderful products ecommerce businesses sell on the platform, with over 20 billion views and counting. With over 1.5 content receivers).

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

The next week in class a project group raised their hands and said, “Hey, Professor Blank, we found out the common wisdom in the biotech business is that “we need $10-20 million just for the R&D phase and 100’s of million to get through clinical trials.” “Of course,&# I said, “Life science is completely different.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Read the previous Ardent post for context.) Lessons learned: Corporate culture is either set by fiat, by default, or by consensus. I’m sure glad I’m not in the business world since that kind of shit doesn’t fly with me. Not a process I recommend, but one in which the lessons stuck for a lifetime.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

We have been busy chipping away at the foundations of our simple society. Around the middle of February, I caught from Twitter from people like Paul Graham who had been tweeting about this coronavirus epidemic for some time, I identified the problem and I started looking at a little bit of data and posting it on Facebook.

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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.

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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. That would not only restore users’ eroded privacy, but also provide an opportunity for small scale digital businesses to compete. We can do better.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 7, 2017

To give you a sense of the depth and breadth of ideas I’ll cover today, here are the sections in this post: + The Promise of Marketing Utopia. + Win Big: Stop Posting Content for Organic Reach On Social Channels. + If you were a travel company, meaningful would now translate into helping feed wanderlust. They keep posting.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Posted on January 31, 2013. Don’t skip this post because you’re not a Rails developer. This has been covered in more detail by security researchers, in posts such as here and here. Kalzumeus Software.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2012

That’s one of the reasons I promote the use of blogging software for every small business site on the planet. Of course that assumes that are consistently feeding your blog high quality, keyword rich, educational content. By default, most blogging software makes the title the same as the post title or headline.

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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. I’m now moving from the 101 basics into the business applications. In an earlier post I spoke about the asymmetric nature of Twitter vs. Facebook. So why is this important for businesses?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 15, 2013

How to Get Higher Rankings for Your WordPress Site written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Every site owner and blogger wants their content to rank highly in the search engines for key terms. If You Liked This Post. : photo credit: Ken Lund via photopin cc. Scrapers love.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

You can really stand out if you come to your interview prepared with ideas for growing and improving the business. 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. Don’t give them a reason to lose faith in you by trying to feed them any.

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www.smashingmagazine.com

MAY 5, 2011

Copying Billing and Shipping Address Information with jQuery Copy Form Input Data to Another Input Field with jQuery Don’t Check the Newsletter Option by Default. Reply 15 0 Andy May 5th, 2011 7:00 am Fantastic post on some really great techniques! Keeps these types of informative posts coming. Chances are, it will work.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Posted on August 13, 2012. Sidenote: If you run a software business, you absolutely need some form of server monitoring, because the application being down costs you money and trust. More alignment with business goals.

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Up and Running

MARCH 30, 2011

Tweet If you are using Facebook personally or are still one of those rare people who aren’t part of what compares in size as being the 3 rd largest country in the world, you might want to consider “playing” with some fun techniques here to market your business. Instead of just trying to sell your business though, try using them creatively.

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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? You can attract technical talent simply by being known as an outstanding, generous, helpful business person.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Top-Down The top-down approach is the one you would traditionally link to business school case studies and startups going after large markets. Jokes aside, the top-down approach has its place in business plans and pitch decks commonly used to ask people for money.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The following table translates each of these reasons into the user and business objectives that lie behind them: Uses of forms, based on Luke Wroblewski’s Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks. Indeed, human beings thrive on relationships, be they amorous, friendly, professional or business. The Six Components Of Web Forms. “No

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Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

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. In the last month data was copied off one of my posts 5,616 times, with most of it being content and some of it images. You matter.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Of course, we’re all in the business of persuasion, at least to the extent that we’d like people to buy our products. They basically skewed the number of positive or negative items on random users’ news feeds and then analyzed these people’s future postings. The Power of Defaults. The result?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

20 Free and Low Cost Tools for Everyday Productivity written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Dropbox – For good or bad Dropbox has become our default server in the cloud. Feedly – This is my RSS Reader of choice. I send any file over a couple megs via the public folder.

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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. It had a good run, so now on to the next one right?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Train ChatGPT to Fit Your Business Better ChatGPT follows instructions in your prompt very well, but its responses can be very generic unless you write very long prompts or provide more instructions within the same thread. They will be taken into account for every response by default. Add relevant hashtags and emojis.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Work is being affected by COVID-19 as dramatically as everything else, and Sam put forth what he calls his "contrarian view" of how the ways we're adapting now will and will not change the nature of remote work and business travel once we've all settled into our new normal. Someone should post that to Help With COVID. SA : They should.

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designshack.co.uk

JUNE 8, 2011

Home Gallery Articles Accessibility Business Critique CSS Freebies Graphics HTML Inspiration Interviews JavaScript Layouts Navigation PHP Reviews Software Typography Web Standards Deals Submit Submit a Design Design Dilemma Why get an account? Be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed and follow us on Twitter to stay up on recent content.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 11, 2011

There are many a Google Plus social network tutorial out there and this post is not intended to be one of them. These are the circles you use to control access to the posts you write. Except for the default circles like “Acquaintances” – I just renamed those so they don’t automatically sort to the top).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 30, 2015

16 Step Checklist for the Perfect Blog Post written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Use this sixteen-point checklist as a guide to help establish a pre-publish blog post/page routine so you can hit publish with incredible confidence.

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