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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

First Click Free (2008). Paywalls, by default, are a barrier to organic acquisition—they stop some users from accessing some content. At the same time, organic traffic, for many news sites, isn’t the primary acquisition source, in part because most news-related queries are new and never searched before. Metering vs. lead-in.

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The investment that didn’t happen

K9 Ventures

In April 2008, I was introduced to Ugmode, Inc. On future occasions, whenever I expressed an interest to invest, the founders came back and told me that they had an acquisition offer on the table! However, the IP climate remains unchanged, and it’s likely that other villains will continue to exploit similar situations.

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The Advanced Guide to Transactional Emails That Convert

ConversionXL

In 2008, Seth Godin published a list of things that “every good marketer knows” Among that list was: “Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.” The same report states that transactional emails also generate more revenue per email than promotional emails.

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The Intersection of SEO and CRO (and How to Maximize Long Term Growth)

ConversionXL

How do you balance traffic acquisition with conversion optimization? Treat Googlebot just like any other user and don’t hard-code our user-agent or IP address.”. You can usually tell this is the case when your SEO traffic converts well below other acquisition channels. It’s not hurting your revenue.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008.

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: Bootstrapping Comes in Many Flavors

ReadWriteStart

Justin is looking for a more efficient customer acquisition model, and my suggestion to him was to look into using distributors, instead of trying to do all the development and then also all the distribution himself. The IP vendor does about $2 million to $3 million a quarter, but the market leader is EDA giant Synopsys. D-Logic Inc.

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East meets West: Why Chinese app developers are targeting US smartphone owners

The Next Web

Founded in 2008, Shanghai-based CooTek is the company behind TouchPal X Keyboard and TouchPal Contacts , which lets you type contact names directly on your smartphone’s dial pad. When CooTek started its business in 2008, that was a time when the iOS market was still the largest ecosystem and also the easiest to make money from, Lee notes.

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