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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

Gust

When it goes public, a company must adopt a raft of policies and measures designed to comply with insider trading rules and tightly control disclosure of financial and other material non-public information that, if disclosed, could significantly alter the total mix of information available to those making investment decisions.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). Is it a case of just design it, code it, build it, deploy it, trademark it, copywright it and then go for funding? .

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. Survey design. The questions that clients ask in the coming months are going to be more focused on business results and less on trends and vanity metrics. Even less does it mean high transaction volume or revenue. What the big studies have shown. Accepting that is key.

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Website Redesign for Higher Conversions? Tread Lightly

ConversionXL

If you just go ahead and redesign your site, chances are that it will fail – conversions / revenue per visitor actually go down. This happens when visual designers decide what your site should be like, or worse yet – you use design by committee. Careful – radical website redesigns often backfire.

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#KillerSaaSPitch in 10 Words (Part 2)

Cracking the Code

When Elon Musk received $200 million from the proceeds of the PayPal acquisition in 2002, he re-invested everything to build the next big thing: $100 million in SpaceX and $100 million in Tesla. It’s very important to explain in detail how this engine is designed and how you can scale while maintaining quality and productivity.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

Customer personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. Cooper framed personas as a way of avoiding designing for an “elastic” user, and thus cementing some sort of common properties across segments to aid cohesive design strategy. Artistic and Aspirational Alex…?

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24 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industries That Are Ripe For Disruption

Hearpreneur

This means that creating a simplified and easy-to-navigate software that allows real-time metrics and communication to be had in a professional management environment is currently an industry for the taking. The SARS outbreak in 2002 leads to the tremendous growth of online marketplace platforms in China. 16- Coffee.