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Feld.com Automagically Upgraded To HTTPS By Pantheon

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With major media sites such as NYTimes.com joining the movement, now over half of all web requests are served securely to the browser. In this new era of state sponsored hacking and fully professionalized cybercrime, it is heartening to see engineers get seriously organized and tackle something on the scale of securing the entire web.

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Pantheon for Agencies

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Every time a marketing team works with a web design firm, there is the usual painful and broken handoff between the outside agency and the technical operations of the client which culminate on launch day. Our portfolio company Pantheon is fixing this. every web design, development, and digital marketing company on the planet.)

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BigDoor Cracks The Code On Web Site Engagement

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Social gaming companies and a few very popular consumer web services have gotten extremely good at creating loyalty, where loyalty rate is defined as Daily Active Users (DAU) / Monthly Active Users (MAU). Yet when you look at loyalty rates on the rest of the web, they look downright abysmal. In other words; loyalty.

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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

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Pantheon is one of the Silent Killers in our portfolio – and I’m immensely proud of the progress they are making and excited about their future. I spent a year on the Dean campaign Web Team during the presidential campaign of 2004. The Dean campaign Web Team proved a very simple but important idea to the world that year.

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Books I Read On My Q214 Vacation

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On day three, when I’m not looking at email, anything on the web, or checking my phone, I just breathe deeply and say “wow I needed this vacation.” Amy reminds me that I say that on day three of each of our quarterly weeks off the grid. ” Oh – and I decided to get over my fear of horses.

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The Great Boxing Day Data Cleanse of 2014

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Hint – if you want to do stuff like this, use the iOS app instead of the web app – it’s so, so, so much faster. Last night I tried to do this on the Facebook web app in front of the TV. Feedly – clean up feeds and add ones from companies in our portfolio that I haven’t been following.

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Looking For A Design HackStar for Startup Revolution

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I’m looking for someone with web design chops who has experience with WordPress to work with me on some stuff. I’m starting to integrate a bunch of new stuff into the Startup Revolution site now that I’ve finished book #2: Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur.