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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

Valuations in startups increased dramatically during the Dot Com boom and then both valuations and the availability of investment capital nationally collapsed in 2001 with the Dot Com bust and 9/11. But the timing of the launch of these new funds almost assured their failure regardless of their investing acumen.

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Is Your SaaS Homepage As Optimized As You Think?

ConversionXL

How do you get your visitors to move beyond that starting point and into your conversion funnel? Get people off of the page and on to the next step in your conversion funnel. Watch your bounce rate climb and your conversion rate stall. What gives? First, What Are the Goals of a Homepage? Do visitors want it or need it?

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How Responsive Design Boosts Mobile Conversions

ConversionXL

Mashable named 2013 “The Year of Responsive Design” But is responsive web design actually the answer to boosting mobile conversions? For the first time since 2001, PC sales were lower that they were the previous year. The effect of responsive design on mobile conversions. Shopping on mobile devices can be a pain.

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CIOs Are from Mars; CMOs Are from Venus: Seven Ways To Bridge The Great Divide

YoungUpstarts

Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I No company survives solely based on its marketing, its technology, its operations, or any other factor. In “ The Soft Edge “, I shared about my conversations with Tony Fadell, CEO of Nest Labs. Encourage these difficult conversations.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). It’s like arguing against vertical software. Hiring manager: If one has a lot of experience with large building cranes and operations, the hiring manager rules them out. net implementation.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

But I knew I had to look for investments in “software meets X (often known as Vertical Software solutions)” rather than necessarily horizontal enterprise software applications. The 30-minute interview of Jonah Peretti is here but my summary in the notes below. An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry.

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