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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

We average eight to 10 total new investments per year as a firm, so this frequency is a typical investment pace for us. As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. A few themes which have emerged from our 13 most recent investments: CONSUMER (B2C).

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

When I wrote a review of Four Steps on this blog in November, 2008, I did my best to be candid and warn of a few shortcomings: And Steve is the first to admit that its a "turgid" read, without a great deal of narrative flow. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups. Expo SF (May.

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Personalization: How to Build a Revenue Boosting Program from Scratch

ConversionXL

According to a recent academic study, “a typical Netflix member loses interest after perhaps 60 to 90 seconds of choosing, having reviewed 10 to 20 titles (perhaps 3 in detail) on one or two screens.” You can check the Web Marketing and Measurement Model by Avinash Kaushik (who is an analytics legend): Image Source.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I have a lot of good news to report on this front. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said.

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7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences

Occam's Razor

There is a lot any business — B2C, B2B, A2Z — can learn from Songza. But when it comes to the web, they all seem to leave their creativity, passion, and brilliant minds at home. Why leave your passion behind when it comes to the web? the reviews. Read their invitation to get you to write a review.

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Transcript of Creating a Winning SEO Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

It’s kind of a shady site, but what it is basically is it’s like a web proxy so you can go to Google, use an IP address that’s in the States and search through it, and the cool thing is is that it’s not a VPN so it doesn’t have your browser history or any of that stuff implementing it. I was there.

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Freemium vs. Free Trial: Which Gets You More Paying Customers (Not Just Freeloaders)?

ConversionXL

Lincoln Murphy cites a 3% conversion rate for SaaS and B2B web apps; a 2012 article on several leading platforms suggested a range between 1 and 10%. Advocacy depends on widespread adoption, but users are not homogenous : Freemium accounting software may be simple to a college administrator but complex to an independent contractor.

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