Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Another of my favorite products that solves a problem for me are my Bose headphones (mind I don’t have this fancy version). One of my frustrations that I wish there was a product for is something you probably think too obvious. They’re a camera company that got started in 2002. Today, they’re a necessity. A jewelry stand.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2012

EBITDA, or Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization, is a metric of measurement of cash earnings that is generally non-GAAP. This acronym deals with two components regarding the methods by which products or services are measured: quality assurance and quality control. EBITDA is often used in loans covenants.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 19, 2009 Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a response) Inc Magazine has a great new piece up about the increasing use of the Minimum Viable Product by businesses (and not just startups). Like many companies, TPGTEX rolls out new products several times a year.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 5, 2020

To preserve the integrity of nonprofits, the IRS set new rules for nonprofit executive compensation in 2002. In general, nonprofit executive committees should focus more on social outcomes related to the mission over financial metrics. IRS Regulations for Nonprofit Executive Compensation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Through case studies, exercises, and discussions, Eric Ries will guide entrepreneurs of all stripes through the key areas that determine success for startups: product, engineering, QA, marketing, and business strategy. This workshop presents a new methodology that will allow you to bring new products -- and companies -- to life.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 5, 2020

We have a campaign to make consumers more aware of how their products are made, which will in turn dictate how producers are going to create these products. Supercritical CO2 is already the gold standard for the extraction industry,producing a high quality, organic end product that commands top dollar. Jon Thompson.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 6, 2016

It shows the increase in frequency over time of genotype A, which has a 1% greater relative fitness than the genotype B: It’s important to note that the genes that make up the algorithms, and the fitness metric are created by the practitioner. Product Design via Evolutionary Algorithms. And, spoiler alert, it actually does.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. And we can offer investors metrics to play Moneyball – with the Investment Readiness Level. We think we can do better.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For example, consider the following piece of copy from CopyLogic: “In 2002, members of Congress and President Bush began formulating a new economic bill to benefit a certain group of investments. In 2002, members of Congress quietly passed a bill to help themselves. ” Don’t drag it out.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

The name has been a great introduction to the core ideas that our brand was founded as well as our product offering. NorthSide Metrics is a digital marketing agency based in the Chicagoland area. The colors + location were combined with my love of data to bring in the metrics. Thanks to Dave Rohrer, NorthSide Metrics ! #7-

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

User experience guru Jared Spool was talking about the dangers of radical redesigns already back in 2003, Louis Rosenfeld was ranting against it in 2002, and so on. Listening to people is a good idea, but you have to pay attention to the metrics. If the product page performance sucks (e.g. product page, category, cart etc).

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Customer personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so. This post contains video, click to play]. They all mean the same thing, though.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2013

For example, consider the following piece of copy from CopyLogic: “In 2002, members of Congress and President Bush began formulating a new economic bill to benefit a certain group of investments. In 2002, members of Congress quietly passed a bill to help themselves. ” Don’t drag it out.

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Software Review Conversion Sales 113

ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

User personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so. They all mean the same thing, though. can all benefit from a better idea of the customer.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. Instead, I wanted to focus on what I knew best — product and editorial strategy. And so we built our company. And we evolved.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2019

I have been self-employed since 2002. At Chanty, our north star metric is the number of sign-ups we get daily, so I try to streamline all my activities to be related to signups in some way. We keep track of this metric daily and mention it on our weekly team meetings. It always boosts my productivity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We built 4 products simultaneously to compete with the perceived need to offer end-to-end solutions like our US counterparts. I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. By the time of my wedding in July 2002 I was super fit.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Alexia Tsotsis: Since people like me (millennials) are putting pressure on our IT departments to buy products that we can actually use and aren’t blinded by, what do you think the enterprise space will look like in the next five years? Marc Andreessen: Yeah. So that’s how it started. It became very hard to get businesses to adopt new stuff.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Here’s a review from Judah Phillips ,, an analytics expert, consultant, and author who wrote Building a Digital Analytics Organization , Digital Analytics Primer , and Ecommerce Analytics : Judah Phillips : “Adobe offers a selection of analytics products named “Adobe Analytics” as part of the “Adobe Marketing Cloud.”

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

He accidentally funded the CRM product and Netsuite. 2002, the stock price went from $17.5 S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. "10 Things Every CEO Needs to Know About Product D. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Oracles CEO] Larry Ellison has the same perspective as I do.

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Eric Friedman

APRIL 2, 2008

Yahoo has one definition of a widget (specific to their product of course). In most cases the metric of success varies greatly from widget to widget. This also helps my definition come into being; Below are just some of the metrics of success for a widget; 1. According to my own timeline, I would say 2002. Time spent.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Bix, 2002). The difference between point size and actual letter size (Image © Bix, 2002). It is often a better indicator of the apparent size of a typeface than point size ( Poulton, 1972 ; Bix, 2002 ). X-height refers to the height of the lower case “x” in a typeface. Journal of Design Communication , No.

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Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

The quote first surfaced in 2002. Use mini-stories describing your product/service instead of (empty) umbrella terms that everyone else uses. Symptoms – which symptoms does your product solve? Product Page (Option to buy, product information, cross-selling). Nilan Peiris – Product == People.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. These development platforms have contributed significantly to the popularity of the products from Apple and Microsoft. Eclipse has been emulating Visual Studio for years now. March 26, 2011 at 3:52 am.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

But then came 9/11 and the severe downturn in the Valley in 2002. Very few startups say they’re building products for California or the US. We had a good product that worked well in France, so we expanded it across Europe between 2011 and 2014, before moving to a more global scale, launching in Russia, Mexico, and India.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

A small portion (4%) comes from other “software and data products” which is mostly the Square Cash product, which gives businesses faster access to their credit card funds (essentially a very short term receivable loan). Again if you refer to the Google spreadsheet I created , you can see the gross margins by product line and by year.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

This will happen shortly (3-year horizon) as biofuels and solar energy production costs become cheaper than fossil fuels. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. "10 Things Every CEO Needs to Know About Product D. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? SaaS 13 Index*. Started on Jan.

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