Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

by an expert and friend in this space, Arnie Kuenn, who offers guidance and examples on new and modern approaches for the rest of us: Build a blog. Widgets and badges. A widget is a mini-app that displays or updates data either locally or on the web – to share something of value and interest.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Saying something like “we sell widgets to help with problem X” might be a factual response but it’s not very compelling. Check out the rest of our blog for more interesting articles. Sketch out everything you can about that imaginary customer and when you plan your marketing, imagine your speaking directly to them.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2016

by Michael Dermer, author of “ The Lonely Entrepreneur: The Difference between Success and Failure is Your Perspective “ We are often running from fire to fire and don’t think about the ways we can be more efficient, more balanced, more rested and more effective. I know what you are saying to yourself, “Who has time to sleep?”

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

It’s true that vendors might even have the same suppliers but the price deviation, the amount and nature of feedback are key to which one is preferred over the rest. The displayed vendor profile pages, on the other hand, are quite robust useful information showing social media widgets, descriptions and client reviews.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. That’s a great argument if you have unlimited funding, but if you are just one of the “rest of us,” I suggest you focus on getting to cash-flow positive first. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. That’s a great argument if you have unlimited funding, but if you are just one of the “rest of us,” I suggest you focus on getting to cash-flow positive first. Marty Zwilling.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. Talking to Bob I realized that at Acme Widgets (and in most large companies) the word “failure” was being used to describe two very different events: failure in execution of a known product in known market.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Being just be another widget maker won’t get you anywhere. Then they focus on the most important ones and reduce or eliminate the rest. Instead of investing across a range of features, like most airlines, Southwest maximizes three factors and ignores the rest. Just being a better version of a competitor isn’t enough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. That’s a great argument if you have unlimited means, but if you are just one of the “rest of us,” I suggest you focus on getting to cash-flow positive first. Marty Zwilling.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2018

When you are creating your widget, you should put every bit of effort into the process—this is your passion at play. However, if you pitch your widget to buyers and they don’t see potential, you cannot be afraid to make changes or ask them for more feedback. The rest of your decision making should be about mitigating risk.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

” You now can do whatever you want with the rest of your life. There are a million things they can do in the world, but the spend most of their time looking for the next great technology company that sells a better widget, but doesn’t necessarily change their life in any meaningful way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2010

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. That’s a great argument if you have unlimited means, but if you are just one of the “rest of us,” I suggest you focus on profit first. Marty Zwilling.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Included are thousands of form templates with preset questions, form themes with preset styles and designs, hundreds of widgets for specialized fields on your form, and over a hundred integrations for processing your responses after they’re submitted.

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Andrew Payne

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Step #2: Develop a native app, with generous use of embedded browser widgets. Consider which app elements must to be native for the best experience, and do the rest using embedded browser widgets (e.g. Consider both tablet and phone cases: depending on your application, you may want to deal with them separately.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 4, 2012

Yet when you look at loyalty rates on the rest of the web, they look downright abysmal. They want to create more and better integrated widget templates. According to data from Nielsen, of the top 2,000 biggest sites in the US, only 21 of them have a loyalty rate better than 25%. They want to get their loyalty score lift even higher.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2021

The rest is just details. Your prospect doesn’t care about the features of your widget except insofar as it will make his life better. Not wittiness, not “punchiness”, clarity. The moment your prospect finds your copy confusing or irrelevant, he’ll be gone without a trace. Talking about the wrong things. Here are some examples.

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Andrew Payne

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Step #2: Develop a native app, with generous use of embedded browser widgets. Consider which app elements must to be native for the best experience, and do the rest using embedded browser widgets (e.g. Consider both tablet and phone cases: depending on your application, you may want to deal with them separately.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Although the rest of us probably won’t be able to get our questions for business leaders answered directly, there’s likely a video on MeetTheBoss TV that is relevant to your issue. Procter & Gamble Launches Widget to C. Appcelerator and PayPal Team Up for M. Facebook Gets Its First Non-Profit Gi.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

Remember that, at least for the rest of this post. If you are a regular reader you'll notice that at the end of every blog post (before the start of the comments section) is a Topsy widget. Honestly that is all the traffic that is of commercial value, so even if you miss the rest it is not the hugest of deals. You matter.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 11, 2011

It’s hard to see the forest behind all the trees that way; muting those posts is the only way you can ever see the rest of your stream. It adds a widget to your blog that will display a link to your google+ profile so people can add you to a circle (follow you). Share your drafts with that circle only.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Depending on how you wish to structure the application, native “widgets” may be implemented for each platform (iOS, Android, Windows, etc.) This is very much like the versioning built into some REST based interfaces in order to support compatibility with older client applications.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

While big ticket products might carry longer and more complex sales cycles, high-end buyers are just as lazy as the rest of us, so they use the same methods: Google, social media, and yes, their inboxes. Should you direct your prospects to a sales page, a white paper, a tripwire product, a calendar widget, a webinar?

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

It was tough work convincing them, but you can’t rest on your laurels now. In the waterfall process, wireframes are built and consist primarily of layouts and widgets. You’ll need to design widgets for different views, and not think of a page as a "page." How to Implement Responsive Web Design. Step 1: The Plan.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 11, 2011

It’s hard to see the forest behind all the trees that way; muting those posts is the only way you can ever see the rest of your stream. It adds a widget to your blog that will display a link to your google+ profile so people can add you to a circle (follow you). Share your drafts with that circle only.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This is some years ago, and our widgets were no better than anyone. Micah Solomon (05:05): So there are two stories, two explanations, and both of them are true. So the PR friendly one is, I created a manufacturing company. They were also no worse. So as time went on, I realized that what differentiated ourselves was the customer experience.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Each object, identified by unique key, can be written or read using REST interface. For example, if your service is offering a widget you can use Google Analytics to track what sites is this widget on. To do that just call Google analytics from the widget code. link] Looking for Widgets? Darn you Google!

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2012

Think in terms of an email newsletter that might contain 5-6 great articles presented with abstracts that lay out in about 100 words with someone might want to click through and read the rest. Using tools like AllTop , GoogleReader , NewsVine or PopULRs you can easily locate and aggregate content related to topics of interest to your readers.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 22, 2011

Most WordPress themes have a search function built in, and if yours doesn’t, WordPress has a widget that you can add to your sidebar. If so, the rest is super easy. It’s an easy way for your website visitors to search the contents of your site. It basically functions as an internal Search Engine.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 22, 2011

Most WordPress themes have a search function built in, and if yours doesn’t, WordPress has a widget that you can add to your sidebar. If so, the rest is super easy. It’s an easy way for your website visitors to search the contents of your site. It basically functions as an internal Search Engine.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Finally, I would try to avoid the temptation to fill your site with every latest and greatest widget. You want your readers to opt in, either to get more content or sign up for your app – most other widgets are distractions. Parts 2 and 3.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

” and “We have received…” part, my eyes don’t really want to read the rest of it. Yet, when you confirm, you only get this: That’s it, the rest of the page is blank. and Martin’s analytics widget tells him you haven’t used the software too much. This is how profit.ly

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 8, 2004

Most people assume that the US’ competitive advantage over the rest of the world lies in design, innovation, and branding. However, what we need to understand is that these countries are not just content in producing widgets.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 9, 2019

Here are a few questions we ask to finish off our onboarding process and set expectations for the rest of the project: Step 2: Content audit. The actual questions can be quite lengthy, so I won’t list them all here, but there are multiple resources, like this one or this one , that dive into the specifics. Step 3: Use cases.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 16, 2017

If you put a chat widget on your web site, make sure it’s integrated with your customer service team so questions made there do not vanish in the void. Make sure your support team is well-rested and well-fed. Review the analytics for your knowledge base to find the most used and least used pages. Send physical thank you notes by mail.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

A worker who is creating 10 widgets/hour at the beginning of a shift may be producing only 6/hour at the end of the shift, having peaked at 12/hour a couple of hours in. In terms of knowledge workers, a programmer produces more good code and fewer bugs when well-rested. In factory terms, a workers production rate decreases over time.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

KissInsights KissInsights is a new service from the creators of KissMetrics that allows you to display a non-intrusive but highly effective widget on your website or blog. You can be notified each time someone completes the survey, and you can even redirect the user after completion of the survey thanks to a hack.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 25, 2020

And while an abandoned cart email flow can recover up to 30% of your lost sales, you can use a Facebook Messenger bot to scoop up the rest. As a result, we created two dedicated buttons to answer these exact questions in our live chat Messenger widget. Add a live chat widget to your website. Where is my order?

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