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You Shouldn’t Have to Pay to Talk To Your Own Customers

Austin Startup

GetSatisfaction still hosts u nofficial customer communities , and links to them prominently on their website with designations like “37Signals is not yet committed to open coversation about its products and services. Get smart about how your data is used, and demand fair means by which to contribute.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 1) Market fund. 6) Negotiate deal.

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B2B Websites: 10 Best Practices for UX and Design

ConversionXL

This post applies Jakob Nielson’s 10 Usability Heuristics to B2B websites that focus on lead generation (as well as “high consideration” B2C sites that lack any transactional functionality). Usability heuristics are “best practices” for user interface design. Make your system status highly visible.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. For our content creation, we use tools such as Canva (graphic design) and GoToStage (webinars platform) to create and share content for prospects to find.”. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.” 3) Raise capital.

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10 Best Practices for Better B2B Website Experience

ConversionXL

Here are some ideas about of how you can apply 10 Jakob Nielsen Usability Heuristics to lead generation websites in the B2B or high consideration B2C realm, where there isn’t necessarily any transactional functionality, e.g. e-commerce, user registrations, etc. Image Credit. Support undo and redo.”.

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Lean LaunchPad – For Deep Science and Technology

Steve Blank

Ended in Week 10 as autonomous button mushroom harvesting. Ended in Week 10 as a B2C platform for scheduling on-demand at-home senior care. Originally, I had designed a level of uncertainty into the class to mimic what a real-world startup feel like.) If you can’t see the EdgeAI video click here. Team MushroomX.

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CXL Live 2017 Recap: Optimization & Growth Insights from 20+ Experts

ConversionXL

Jared Spool: Is Design Metrically Opposed? Observations -> Inferences -> Design Decisions. You may have one observation and then multiple inferences, which would result in multiple design options. The best designers never stop at the first inference. Design: The rendering of intent. Image Credit.