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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

As such, Google continued to get stopped at our paywall during crawls, and we became virtually non-existent in its search engine results pages. News is an especially challenging vertical since no site owns a newsworthy event. Flexible Sampling (2017). You can verify the real Googlebot for your site.).

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The Creator Economy is rising, but challenges abound

VC Cafe

New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators , Eric Feng. Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creator s, Eric Feng. ” Eric Feng.

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Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

Steve Blank

You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. The next week another team, working on a new type of solid oxide fuel cell, remarked, “Professor Blank, in our industry there’s a ton of patents and stuff and people tell us we shouldn’t be out there unless we start patent protecting all our IP.”

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

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. >> One thing Id add: IP- and idea-defense isnt always the strategy behind the stealth tactic.

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The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

In an IP licensing business, legal and finance are the sharp end of the stick. I loved to compete against these companies. To get a sales team to adopt a new product with a non-existing market you have to sell them. In other companies it may be that manufacturing or finance is the sharp end of the stick.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Microsoft started down this path when they were the only game in town, explicitly to maintain their monopoly by making it as hard as possible to either port Windows apps to non-Windows platforms, or to even conceive of how to do it in the first place. Basically, the lesson in this guys argument is entirely non-technical. Get a grip.

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

Here is the data for this blog from another tool I really like and use a lot, Compete … It is pretty close to reality, though everything from Dec '13 through mid-year is imprecise. In this post I've used Compete, Hitwise, SimilarWeb for site-centric analysis. It does not show data for non-US visitors to your site.

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