Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2017

John Jantsch: One of the ways to really drive up profit is to specialize, is to go into a vertical market, is to go have a niche, to get known as an expert in X, Y, or Z. If you’re not a software developer, maybe if you’re a designer, you’re going to also likely gravitate towards your skills. Back to Podcast.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2018

The Software Usability Research Laboratory (SURL) at Wichita State University ran a study that examined the traits people associate with varying fonts. Horizontal vs Vertical vs Diagonal Lines. Unlike vertical or diagonal lines, they look as though gravity has already acted upon them and there is nowhere for them to fall.

Design 48

Design Vertical Software Review Wichita 48

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

UserTesting.com is one of the better-known services that help companies run usability tests, and there are also many companies that specialize in testing how usable software or a site is. The Software Usability Research Laboratory (SURL) at Wichita State University ran a study that examined the traits people associate with varying fonts.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2014

In another study, Granify, a CRO software company, conducted a real time behavior analysis of 20+ million visitors over 5 different verticals and also found that “lower prices” was not as pervasive as we may have believed. Shipping Costs. Now, as I said, these are just averages. ” image source. image source.

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Software Review Social Media Vertical Algorithm 117

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

One company in Watertown, Massachusetts has been executing on this vision for over a decade with a winning approach for one vertical slice of the small business market: physicians. It turned out, the physician practices loved the software, but didn't love the practice management services.

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Fractional CTO Cofounder Cleveland Vertical 43

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

data.world and our modern catalog for data and analysis is a new category of software, much like Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics created new categories before, and the brilliant book Play Bigger helped us find it. both in the “picks and shovels” space of digital retail with very compelling software solutions.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Binaize (Bangalore, India) Nikhil Jois, CEO Binaize is a network intelligence software product for Industrial IoT that helps minimize machine downtime and increase the operational efficiency of industrial control systems. Techstars funds all types of startups, working across all verticals, applying all types of business models.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

UiPath broke that milestone this summer, in just nine months, establishing Europe as a major global center for software innovation. There are now eight software companies north of a $100 billion market cap, representing $2.7 trillion of market value. Europe has also joined the race with its first Cloud giants.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 24, 2013

. - Customer satisfaction is low but have no other alternatives. - Competitor’s partners have message boards dedicated to b g about their monopolistic practices. - Green screens are the state-of-art. - $35B is at stake. BloomNation is launching today with $1.6M in seed financing from A16Z and Spark.

Vertical 74

Vertical Retention Green Acquisition 74

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Green screens are the state-of-art. -$35B It’s a perfect storm waiting to take flight – as software continues to eat industries and verticals we believe this BloomNation story will repeat itself over and over again across more and more industries. 35B is at stake. BloomNation is launching today with $1.6M

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Vertical Retention Green Acquisition 60

Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. Motorola—Paul Galvin. nVidia—Jen-Hsun Huang. Oracle—Larry Ellison. Peoplesoft—Dave Duffield. Salesforce.com—Marc Benioff. Sony—Akio Morita.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 78

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

With that, let's look at the first rich source of benchmarking data in CI tools, the industry and sub-vertical reports. Since SimilarWeb has international data, you can run these reports for any country and for extremely specific or broad industries and sub-verticals. You can still learn from both. or Weightwatchers.co.uk

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Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

And investors said they intend to invest more in cleantech than software going forward. This is a big reversal, as software has long been the dominant category for venture deals, but it’s unknown whether software has lost favor, or whether it’s just become so pervasive that it doesn’t really hold together as a category anymore.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The biggest lost opportunity of all, though, is this one: we no longer need to rely on scarcity or status-oriented measures to filter which projects should get the green light. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what. August 24, 2009 2:17 PM Norbert Mocsnik said.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. Serifs are used to guide the horizontal “flow” of the eyes; The lack of serifs is said to contribute to a vertical stress in sans serifs, which is supposed to compete with the horizontal flow of reading ( De Lange et al.,

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Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. NET and PHP, I can tell you the average.NET guy knows far more about good software design than the average PHP guy. In every population there are some that are both brilliant and malicious. Sjoerd Franken.

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Getty is the fourth green line. This is what it looks like, for our website and our images category leader… You can notice big differences in acquisition strategy right away – from the size of the boxes, and from, for example, seeing that Web Portals and Search is darker green (more growth) for Shutterstock than for us.

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Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> The article and HN are concerned with software. Our idea is boring and not revolutionary.

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Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41