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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. There was now a public market for companies with no revenue, no profit and big claims.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I started my business namely to help others and to improve upon the aloof customer service being presented in the IT industry. That’s what spawned the idea that I can do better and namely how computer users deserved much better. In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire. Do you know the name of the cleaning person?

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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. O`Neill monitored conversions, transactions and revenue for three weeks prior to going responsive.

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8 Things That Grab and Hold Website Visitor’s Attention

ConversionXL

We notice the name dearest to us. Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read website content in an F-shaped pattern : two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe. Patricia Wolfe, Brain Matters (2001). Amazon reported that 100ms increase in speed equals 1% revenue increase. Self-made choice.

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

Both Sides of the Table

billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). 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. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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