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Pop-ups — Is Annoying Your Customers Worth a Few Newsletter Sign-ups?

Up and Running

By 1997, the pop-up plague had spread to sites across the net, including Geocities, AOL, and The New York Times. This allowed Gator to collect data on its users and deliver pop-up ads to match user “interests.” Let’s say that you have written a new e-book and want to encourage your customers to buy it.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

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Warren Buffet, 1997. Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. As a result, it is a common marketing practice to offer things “for free” in order to impact customer behavior or encourage customer loyalty. Customers have shown again and again that they really love free stuff. Would they be loyal? NPS would soar.

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How Andreessen Horowitz Evaluates CEOs

Ben's Blog

This includes matters of personnel, matters of financing, matters of product strategy, matters of goal sizing, matters of marketing. Read Jeff Bezos’ 3-page letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997. They embed their quest for intelligence into all of their daily actions from staff meetings to customer meetings to 1:1s.

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The 3 Most Damaging Myths in Entrepreneurship

Up and Running

In the best businesses, every customer is a boss. That’s what we teach in business schools and classic entrepreneurship: you develop a business plan, you get financed, and then you start. I think there’s a startup sweet spot, for most startups, in which the resources available match the opportunity.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

But in today’s world, speed-to-scale entrepreneurship is what we need to improve society, transform industries, and create massive value for customers, employees, and investors. Customers value and benefit from the convenience, price, and selection of Amazon, which is why the company is, by a wide margin, America’s largest bookseller.

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A Look at Responsive CSS Frameworks

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Its extensive capabilities can be customized , although designers wary of option overload may want to start with the simplified “getting started” download. Ben Gremillion started playing with pixels in the mid-1980s and building websites circa 1997. Skeleton comes built into themes for WordPress and Drupal. Learn More.