Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? Often times, it seems like people are thinking its synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think technical deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim." But along the way, something strange happened.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

See the pitch at SXSW in the category of Enterprise & Smart Data Technology , 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm Saturday, March 14, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. With the exception of LexSet, what tech trend is your team most excited about? What is the most over-hyped tech trend of 2020?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

They design an effective go-to-market plan along with the required positioning and messaging. I’m always trying to turn seemingly technically inaccessible concepts into not only accessible ones, but to score the three Es: enticing, engaging, and exciting,” says Andrew Stinger , product & corporate marketing lead at Coda.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Press releases are becoming less successful, partly due to the difficulty of obtaining earned media. I expect businesses in multiple sectors that have been limping along in crisis mode since the pandemic to really start buckling due to chronic understaffing and a loss of any kind of institutional culture or experience.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 16, 2020

It’s based on gathering quality user feedback that drives changes to your design, copy, and funnels. But if you need to understand the why, not just the what, as part of your design process, or if you are dealing with a low traffic website or app, nothing beats an iterative qualitative user experience test process.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

All of her content is designed with small business owners and their marketing needs (and limited budgets) in mind. Crowdspring is one of the world’s leading marketplaces design and naming services. And, they write with that audience in mind. Image courtesy of Buffer. Image courtesy of DuctTape Marketing. Look no further.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Once you understand the basics of what you want accomplish and how your users want to interact with your site, you can go about planning and designing a website that serves both of your needs. Carousels and sliders became incredibly trendy in web design over the last few years. Like any fashion, web design trends come and go.

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Austin Startup

JULY 31, 2018

Image Description: Background image includes blue and green squares of varying sizes. Instead, cities must support and engage the broader community, prioritize and practice human-centered urban design, and provide diverse, accessible, and inclusive pathways for robust citizen co-creation. “As Who might be at risk of exclusion?

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David Teten

AUGUST 8, 2013

You probably have to make presentations, but does the audience hear what you’re saying? Car sales per capita have dropped significantly due to recession, cultural change, and growth of car-sharing. Consider your audience and venue when structuring your slide style. Design your slides for maximum clarity.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Coursera’s catalog offers a wide variety of courses, from music and art to technology, science , and business. The story behind Khan Academy is tech legend: educator Salman Khan started by posting videos on YouTube to help his cousin with her math homework and the videos went viral. ” Khan Academy. Best of all?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. First of all, why split-test?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In 2023 I’ll be focusing on improving retention with our existing audience to maximize value on both ends of the relationship. As a start-up company with an app designed to assist those with addiction, our goal is to expand to reach more individuals. Profits grow by 21% due to more productive , engaged workers.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Ian McAllister of Amazon offers greater detail on the process: The target audience for the press release is the new/updated product’s customers, which can be retail customers or internal users of a tool or technology. I see this happen far too often when people submit products to me for review to post on Product Hunt.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 22, 2016

Website credibility is derived from many factors, and these always depend on the context of your audience and your execution. For example, I don’t think anything resembling “internet marketing” design is credible (big red text, highlighted words, blinking arrows, autoplay video, etc). Bad Web Design. Web design matters.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. But even more exciting is when I see inflection points of adoption — which is why 2011 was a particularly exhilirating year for me.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Coursera’s catalog offers a wide variety of courses, from music and art to technology, science , and business. The story behind Khan Academy is tech legend: educator Salman Khan started by posting videos on YouTube to help his cousin with her math homework and the videos went viral. ” Khan Academy. Best of all?

Programming 48

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer. asks Nick Greene. Might as well dream up one that amuses the target audience. Image source ).

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer. asks Nick Greene. Might as well dream up one that amuses the target audience. Image source ).

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. Survey design. Think through options like family-friendly and kid-focused editions for an at-home audience. To identify risks and opportunities, write John Quelch and Katherine E.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Due to the overwhelmingly positive response this Masterclass received, we launched a new workshop series, Sunset Social Series, and we’re teaching one social media workshop per month at our office in Venice, CA. 2 – Technical Projects. Thanks to Shel Horowitz, Green and Profitable ! #7 Image Credit: Steve Gibson.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Technically you could also do A/B/C/D etc testing, but the more versions you test at the same time, the more time it takes for you to know which one is the best. After conducting tests, implement successful design and content changes. one week one design, second week another design), the results will NOT be accurate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. But the same technologies that make life difficult for traditional marketers also offer them unprecedented new opportunities.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

You just get a little nicer talent, you get a different design group (internal or external) and you let your mind be open to new possibilities. Empower customer reviews that are actually helpful. Design a glorious purchase experience. Not only are they solving for the do audience, they also solve for the think audience.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution. Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Congratulations!

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ConversionXL

APRIL 23, 2013

Persuasive design in action. Defaults are design, too. Key lesson: people do not mess with defaults (unless they’re designers or developers)! That being said, there are lots of opportunities with designing for default. Know your target audience. 5 key principles of persuasive web design.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2018

How Technology Startups Can Leverage Disability Inclusion and Become Relevant, Competitive and Gain an Unfair Advantage Image: A satirical cartoon with six identical individuals dressed in business suits and sitting around a table with notepads and pen. Pass it down.” by focusing on products and platforms, it has forgotten about people.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

My target audience was actors – so that was an easy key word. Since my target audience centers around mothers, it made sense to include it in my business name. Photo credit: Jenna Green. Thanks to Jenna Green, Moscow Muled ! #12- We are a review platform for VoIP services. Thus came Actor Aesthetic. #6-

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Dev & Design Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Designing and critiquing logos for web-based companies and startups is a pursuit of endless fascination for many of us. Learn more here. See also: Wet floor effect.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Dev & Design Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Designing and critiquing logos for web-based companies and startups is a pursuit of endless fascination for many of us. Learn more here. See also: Wet floor effect.

Web 111

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Chapter 4: Brand Identity Design: the Building Blocks of Your Brand Identity. Chapter 5: Designing Your Brand Identity. Put another way: a designer’s job isn’t to design a brand. Designers design the brand identity (explained in Chapter 5 ). Chapter 2: Creating Your Brand Strategy. style guide.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 23, 2020

When I left my full-time in-house role to start my own consultancy, I wanted more work-life balance and I wanted to be able to design my own day however I saw fit. I enjoy doing my job, but when motivation is missing I remind myself that I am being helpful and that my audience values my work. Photo credit: Alex Perkins.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 15, 2012

I look at the company I'm working with, their branding and direct response strategies, analyze psychographic segmentation of the internet audience and then create my recommendations for the about their overall digital opportunity. How did the designers expect us to keep track of the elements using shades of blue!].

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 23, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. UbiQD enabled this innovation with safer, cheaper, and more reliable quantum dot technology that it’s licensing from M.I.T.,

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2021

These come from speaking and listening to your audience , and successfully differentiating your brand. Stripe is a company that knows its target audience—and its USP reflects this. Canva is an online design and publishing platform aimed at making it easy for anyone to create and share vector graphics.

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Up and Running

JUNE 25, 2014

More and more lenders are now coming in, and alternative lenders and companies like SmartBiz, are coming in and making this process much more … Using technology to make the process faster and easier. What you see in the bottom in the green. The loan itself is typically a term loan. That’s where that box lies.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I have a few contractors to do the technical side of my work and a customer support person, but that’s it. I didn’t have a contractor doing technical things for me. I would contact retailers of this card game and say, “I’ve got an audience of Magic players. I changed the design a few times. I’m the content creator.

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ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2014

Increase the relevancy of your offer to your audience (or vise versa). I also used ConceptFeedback and communities like Dribbble to improve the visual design. tailor your offer to your audience or… B.) tailor your audience to your offer. Improve your value proposition. Reduce distractions. Add urgency to your offer.

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