steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Poplytics – online surveys and analytics AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys SurveyMonkey - granddaddy of on-line surveys Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers PickFu – A/B testing $5 for 50 opinions Collaboration Dropbox – store, sync, and, share files online.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal. In recent years, weve also got great new options all up and down the stack, in particular things like Amazon EC2 and RightScale (none of which would be possible without the free software movement). Amazon PostRank Take a look and let me know what you think.

Lean 168

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2017

In it, they found that 20% of overall task failures – when the user failed to successfully complete a purchase when asked to do so – could be attributed to incomplete or unclear product information. What follows are some general principles and strategies of companies that do product page copy well. The results?

Product 104

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The mechanical steps, the culture of how its done, how they evaluate success, how they cope with failure. Software is generally always getting better or getting worse. Of course, its easy to sit outside any team and criticize its failures. Amazon PostRank You can tell a lot about a company from their deployment flow.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

This kind of incrementalism is mostly great, and people should generally do more of it. The Amazon tabs at the top are a great example of this – you have a design philosophy built around tabs, you scale it as far as you can, and then you have to refactor your design. We’ll call this general category of debt Type I.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Most of these tools have a what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) interface, which means even the techically challenged should be able to create a usable application without sustaining any brain strain. These DIY tools are generally a lot less expensive than working with a pro — but caveat emptor , you get what you pay for.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

Why so much potential being met with so much failure? Usability testing. This kind of information is generally most useful in industries where this factor matters like fashion and apparel. Gartner found that less than 10% of Tier 1 retailers believe they are highly effective at personalization. The Personalization Gap.

Programming 97

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

Karl Gilis – How to Make Sure Your New Website Won’t Be a Failure? André Morys – The Growth Canvas: What You Should Really Copy from Amazon. Users are more disappointed when their online expectations aren’t met, because the baseline customer journey experience online is generally pretty good. performance.

PPC 48

PPC Analytics Video Non-Compete 48

www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Is a web apps look and feel critical to its overall success or failure? "As Craigslist, Del.icio.us, Google, 37signals products, the original Twitter design, even Amazon and eBay). By the same token, a great-looking app with poor usability will generally not fly very far. Quality trumps aesthetics every time."

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres something I can relate to: We used assembla for subversion, scrums, milestones, wikis, and for general organizational purposes. This is generally false. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Amazon PostRank

San Francisco 68

San Francisco SCRUM Lean Continuous Deployment 68

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

In it, they found that 20% of overall task failures – when the user failed to successfully complete a purchase when asked to do so – could be attributed to incomplete or unclear product information. What follows are some general principles and strategies of companies that do product page copy well.

Product 48

Product Trinidad eCommerce Technical Review 48

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

And, consumers are naturally suspicious of businesses as a general rule. Failure to deliver on a brand promise is a sign of an unhealthy brand. For example, in logo design projects, we originally asked some general questions. Usability tests. People don’t like to be lied to. After all, businesses want their money.

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Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The same could largely be said about J2EE, but in general anybody who “grows up” with these self-contained, highly-automated platforms can’t help but view computers in a different way than those who start from a lower, less automated, more difficult level. I stopped using Expensify after one trip because of poor usability.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

The reason is that there is a vast amount process and vocabulary to learn, and its best learned when failure is inexpensive. The good developers do not (generally) work through these sites so you are left with the bottom of the barrel. These sorts of people are also generally unable to evaluate developers, manage developers, etc.

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