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7 Keys To Being An Exceptional Business Leader Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Today, with the Internet and social media, if you aren’t visible in a positive way to everyone, including customers, your leadership efforts will be lost. Online it may be time to take a formal position via blogs and interviews. In this age of total access via the Internet, you can’t hide relationships, or the lack of them.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 In startup world low GM almost always equals death which is why many Internet retailers have failed or are failing (many operated at 35% gross margins).

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Who’s Your Daddy? 5 Lessons from GoDaddy

Growthink Blog

GoDaddy was created in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons who had recently sold his other company, Parsons Technology Inc., In 2005, GoDaddy.com became the world’s largest ICANN-accredited registrar on the internet. It was not very long ago that most people were unfamiliar with the Internet.

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5 Most Successful Products Ever and What Small Businesses Can Learn From Them

crowdSPRING Blog

The iPhone integrated phone, camera, music player and internet access all into one device – and it did it well. Lipitor (1997). The post 5 Most Successful Products Ever and What Small Businesses Can Learn From Them appeared first on crowdspring Blog. In fact, it was only the tip of the iceberg.

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The Valley Lacks Flexibility, Not Talent

ReadWriteStart

Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. The amount of blog posts by disgruntled engineers of startups ranting about the period of merging is legion. Outdated and Impersonal HR Practices.

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How to Write Compelling Marketing Copy: 7 Tips for Writing Content That Gets Results

crowdSPRING Blog

But, just because you’re great at writing blog content, or technical descriptions, or FAQs, does not mean that you’re a great copywriter. In 1997 the Nielsen Norman Group revealed that 79% of users they tested scanned web pages rather than reading them. The goal of marketing copy is to convert. This first tip is important.

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Banner Ads Suck (and How to Make Them Convert Better)

ConversionXL

Since users have learned to navigate the internet comfortably, they directly look for information in places on a web page where it is most likely to be. In 1997, I chose to suppress a similar finding: users tend to click on banner ads that look like dialog boxes, complete with fake OK and Cancel buttons.