Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

Most entrepreneurs work long hours and weekends to get the job done. It doesn’t take long to sense someone’s real commitment, or vision and desired outcome of a joint project. Ethics and the view of personal boundaries should be explored fully. Tags: entrepreneur startup business partner ideals attributes.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

During this sudden office-exodus, where every company has had no choice but to become boundaryless, my long-held conviction that remote-work works are being borne out by new data. My crystal ball isn’t any better than anyone else’s when it comes to seeing how this pandemic ends, nor how long it will massively impact daily life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2010

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Tags: entrepreneur investor due diligence founder business. Marty Zwilling.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It also gives an ad network, AdMatica, permission to view that interest. It works by tagging ads with metadata (e.g., There is no current solution for view-through conversions.). Cohorts are “where the future is headed, at some level, in terms of targeting,” Google’s Chetna Bindra told AdExchanger. Image source ).

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Rather than matching exact terms and requiring specific field values as inputs, it interprets and understands user queries, pinpointing the desired types or categories. These all become potential targets that you can evaluate for feasibility/level of effort as well as short- or long-term value.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 15, 2022

The greater your effectiveness in terms of implementing these retention strategies the better the results. Apollo Technical found that around 80 % of employees are of the view that flexible working hours facilitate better work-life balance. Millennials don’t mind a smaller price tag. Encourage regular feedback sharing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

What elevates Airtable even further is it lets you create different “views” of your data. Like Airtable, Coda documents accept a long list of file types, but that’s where the similarity ends. Coda’s Doc Gallery showcases a long list of ways you can take advantage of this office doc mashup.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

There, you’ll see how much of the loading time results from waiting on your server: If you set up a free account, you can view other relevant metrics, including the all-important TTFB, using the Timings tab: Google PageSpeed Insights (PSI). Time to Interactive (TTI): This measures how long it takes a page to become fully interactive.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

We typically think of “engagement” as clicks and views in the consumer world of Instagram and Snap, or more recently with the rise of prosumer enterprise applications like Slack and Airtable — but as Spotify has shown, for instance, engagement minutes of audio can be monetized. 3/ Audio As A Feature Of Streaming Services.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

My personal views? I believe that innovation will be part of what drives us out of the recession / long-recovery eventually. If you’re raising $2 million and can close on $3 million – don’t optimize to minimize short-term dilution, optimize for contingencies in case the market gets worse. So why the ’09 bounce?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

That view from me isn’t surprising since on the topic of Nature vs. Nurture in entrepreneurs I’ve clearly come down on the side of nature more than nurture (again, that doesn’t mean nurture has NO influence, just less than nature). That’s my view, anyhow. Here’s mine: Let me start with a few biases.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. Q: “If you have a term sheet on the table how should you leverage with other VCs?&#

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2017

One of these exceptions is where you have developers on the team who can automate certain on-site features – title tags, for example. Although automation can be pretty hard to set up in the first place, it will save a lot of people a lot of time in the long run, and as that old maxim goes – time is money!

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Fortunately, Google Tag Manager makes it easy. Still, many optimizers don’t use Google Tag Manager (or any tag manager, for that matter) because it looks daunting. If you put in the work to understand the verbs and the nouns, Google Tag Manager will make your life much easier. Adobe Dynamic Tag Management.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

Proxies like backlinks and keywords have long been—and still are—stand-ins for the likelihood that a web page will satisfy user intent. Optimizing for intent is the long play, for Google and your site. Those informational queries are often the highest volume terms a site targets—key drivers of awareness and acquisition.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 28, 2019

One of Mark’s core beliefs is that good SEO requires a thorough understanding of the company’s marketing goals, the target audience, and the competitive environment, which doesn’t work well with contractors unless it’s a long term arrangement where educating them is worth the effort. Understanding User Intent, Personas.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

News sites have long been at the forefront, but plenty of speciality sites (e.g., In 2009, Google allowed publishers to cap FCF views at five articles per day ; in 2015, the cap tightened to three articles. Googlebot looks with a clean session, so Google is perfectly fine as long as the first click is freely visible.”.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

At this point, with Twitter and Facebook having hit critical mass and millions opting into location-based advertisements, the issue for most organizations is transitioning from ad hoc profile updates to long-term strategy. Tags: Analysis. Hiring The Right Candidate. Photo by malko.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

View Staff Page. So, the Founder Institute has developed a solution to this long-standing pain in the ass that all startups experience. For more, see the FAST document below: View this document on Scribd. Tags: founder-institute , Startups , equity Sponsored Ads. Disrupt SF. Startup Battlefield. Rip Empson. Crunchbase.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

This is a long one, so I encourage you to bookmark it and come back later. Terms & Concepts We’ll Cover In This Include: Day-parting – a term borrowed from radio and television that refers to establishing a schedule to target your audience. Your existing keyword set will benefit from tighter audience focusing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

But there are also major mobile initiatives by Microsoft (Windows 7 Mobile) and eventually Blackberry surely will pull their heads out and deliver a real browser experience (how such a great company could have missed this for so long confounds me … but then again look at what happened to Palm). Tags: Featured SoCal Stuff.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Getting suppliers to accept terms that they said they never normally agree, getting accepted to speak on a panel when the conference organizer initially said “no,&# getting people to moonlight for you until you have the cash to bring them on board. I said that he had been talking about doing this for too long. “Why?&#

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

These days, you generally want to pick your name with a view to buying a domain and claiming your social media handles. Social media handles are (currently) yours for as long as you like. Content tags. This is usually indicated by the search term they use. . Ideally, they should have their own website.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 21, 2022

A long time, listeners will know that Donald Miller's been on this show at least a couple times. So talk, so Google has gotten this for a very long time, but search has become about entities more than keywords. So they literally understand all aspects of an image, whether you have an T tag or whether you don't.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

I put strategic in quotes because they are often anything but “strategic&# and thus the term can be an oxymoron. Another big question you’ll want to answer is whether your strategic investor has a long history in investing in startups. Many serial entrepreneurs who have been burned would use something less kind than quotes.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

From the point of view of the sales organization this new family of integrated circuits were a major distraction. The goal of a scalable startup isn’t optimizing the comp plan for the sales team but optimizing the long-term outcome of the company. Tags: Customer Development Secret History of Silicon Valley.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Average Page Views Per Visitor. With segmentation we focus on groups of people and we focus behavior that has logical connections (everyone who used a particular keyword, group that came via Twitter, people who viewed a TV ad, visitors who saw more than 4 pages on our site etc., Check with your vendor and tag appropriately.].

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Up and Running

JULY 22, 2020

Making it vital that you fix these issues quickly and if possible, long before you launch your eCommerce shop. No one likes having long-winded forms to fill in. A long list of fields is very daunting, but bite-size chunks are far more palatable and will likely lead to more conversions. Test price comparison tables.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Then, they could look at sales in all the countries including country X and a couple of other countries (Y, Z, A) that are similar to country X in terms of type of population, existing brand awareness, market penetration, competitive structures. But they could also only make a major push with Facebook in country X. How can we do better?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 19, 2018

Google Search Console : Partnering Google Analytics with the Google Search Console is how you get the most complete picture of what’s going on in terms of people finding your website, clicking on search results, and so on. It will also give you keyword rankings for terms you’re going for. Integrate with Google Analytics.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

When used long-term, Crunch Mode slows development and creates more bugs when compared with 40-hour weeks. More than a century of studies show that long-term useful worker output is maximized near a five-day, 40-hour workweek. In the short term, working over 21 hours continuously is equivalent to being legally drunk.

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ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2020

and we do need to align marketing and sales around a common view of the entire funnel,” says advisor of LoopVOC, Jill Rowley. ZoomInfo solved misalignment by creating a service-level agreement that required a dedicated member of their sales team to call MQLs: ZoomInfo had long struggled with warm MQLs. ( Image source ).

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 2, 2024

After reading this, you’ll understand the role of messaging and how to build long-term client relationships. It’s when you start viewing your services as interchangeable with everyone else’s. You end up working harder for less money, and it’s tough to sustain long-term.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 5, 2020

Companies now have apps where you can view the car, put down a deposit, send your photo id and call it – like an Uber once you clear customs. The options are limited now, but they won’t be for long. These businesses have had to completely reimagine their business models and will likely be pivoting for a long time to come.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Executive recruiters are also a good option, especially if you find one who has long-term relationships with many experienced candidates and business executives. It's important that the CEO define alternatives and have a very clear view on how he will use the proceeds, including the option of not raising any outside capital at all.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

In this blog post I want to share four analytics tools that I have been playing with for a while… tools that solve an interesting problem… tools that point to what might be in terms of our near term analytical future… and in almost all cases they don't even know! First Some Context. Tynt's promise is simple.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

They could take a long term view. They help speed up the network by pushing the highly viewed and large media files to the “edge&# of the network (e.g. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital VC Industry. So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage.

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