Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2021

Find your vertical and stick to it (for a few years at least). Instead, they leveraged assets that already existed (spare rooms in people’s homes) and simply advertised them to people going to an industrial design conference. For example, Airbnb offers all kinds of accommodation, and StockX offers authentic goods. So get cracking!

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). We hired a PhD in computational fluid dynamics from Duke who had worked on helicopter design. Update: Fixed a second time.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We’ve come a long way these last ten years, and we wanted our new website design to honor that time; retracing our steps, while also walking forward in the direction of digital trends on the horizon. What story are you looking to tell with the new design? . Our blog content is a staple of the NextView brand identity.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 26, 2016

Then, if they like your work, they may seek out your personal blog/Twitter to figure out if you’d be the right culture fit for the company. These vertically-focused platforms cater to the specific needs of their users, offering a close networking community around shared interests.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

What does it have to do with your blog? People judge your blog based on the design. The content of your blog is always more important than the design, but you need to woo people with your design first. You draw them in with design, and keep with content. Design is how it works.”

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

This focus has helped me recruit the best and the brightest in the field, build a world-class operation, and most of all, with all the knowledge in a specific vertical, help build a leading agency for food & beverage manufacturers that are looking to build a direct to consumer channel. 16- Made my blog a profitable business.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

blog posts) compared to sites that scale with inventory (e.g., You’ll likely have to make a case to get developer and designer resources and bring your asks into the right formats for product teams to push them forward. The post How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts) appeared first on CXL.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

We celebrate good design, clean code, and clever ideas, while disregarding marketing as a fuzzy practice whose benefits are immeasurable at best, and dubious by most accounts. – have focused relentlessly on being the best-in-class in their specific vertical. Design & Dev Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion'

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

Simulation to Reduce Invention Risk If you’re in a vertical where “invention risk” is dominant, then you want to do everything you can to manage and reduce those risks. The Customer Development Process I teach and write about is designed to do just that. You may have a set of hypothesis about them but you really don’t know.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2014

Now, of course , this isn’t going to be uniform across all verticals. BUT if your site uses a blog to provide deeply actionable information (like Unbounce for SaaS) or culture commentary your customers can’t resist (like the GQ Style blog for eCommerce), long form content is absolutely worth considering.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

They walked through 4 minutes of PowerPoint garble (of a 5 minute pitch) before unveiling a beautifully designed UI. Still, I think that to succeed they really need to focus on vertical niches where they can differentiate and have more focus on content quality and user acquisition. As I’m sure Pip.io

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2014

You pay, download the stock photo, jury-rig it into your design & look at your work with a mixed sense of pride & shame. But the client LOVES it! (“See, looks like Stock wasn’t so bad after all, was it Mr. Designer?”). Credit for round up goes to the Idee blog. Photograph.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. would look in each of the verticals. For example, How does sales differ from one market to another? Others you need to know when you execute the plan.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

My goals for the new year are to release my blog, connect with a range of clients, build my email list and to never stop learning. My focus is on photography, travel and my blog. Simplicity is key. . Thanks to Phil Gregory, Peak District SEO ! #3- 3- Four goals. Thanks to Dan Goldstein, Page 1 Solutions, LLC ! #11- 11- Two goals.

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

Knowing what the competitors are doing – how they are thinking about the market, what tactics they are using, how they are crafting messages and design – can make all the difference in the battle for the customers’ mind share and conversions. Competitive Analysis for Design. What I am looking for is common trends within that vertical.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

It can also guide on-page content choices, content strategy, or web design. For example, while all of your blog posts may qualify as “Informational” in intent, some may serve users in different stages of awareness: Fitting keywords into the customer journey is a better way to segment intent. Design pages to satisfy active intent first.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. While I was consulting for them, I got a call from a recruiter for a company called SuperMac, which made add-on products for the Macintosh.

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View from Seed

MAY 11, 2020

Our mantra at NextView is to “ design the future we want to live in ”. As a firm, we have had a thesis around the unbundling healthcare to create best-in-class, vertical healthcare solutions for the world’s biggest problems. You can read more about the company here and see their segment on GMA from a few weeks ago here.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Bellroy has designed a range of slimline wallets to solve this challenge. This is particularly true for complex verticals such as B2B SaaS products, where product marketing’s ability to pinpoint users with the most need and educate them on product features and benefits proves useful. Take Bellroy , a leather accessories retailer.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2014

In another study, Granify, a CRO software company, conducted a real time behavior analysis of 20+ million visitors over 5 different verticals and also found that “lower prices” was not as pervasive as we may have believed. a more visually compelling and evocative site design ? Shipping Costs. superior customer service.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. The relevant part starts about 4:30 into the video (wait for it to download.) luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 9, 2016

Typically, when people think of false bottoms, they think of vertical scrolling. While it’s hard to make universal recommendations, we’d suggest that designers use the cue that works best in its context. Designers should choose cues for scrolling based on the content, the business category and the overall design.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Maybe your current visual identity looks fine, but you wonder if it would look better with some fresh design elements. If you’re reading our branding blog, I’m going to assume that your current branding isn’t that outdated. At the time, the branding for my freelance design business looked fun, down-to-earth, and accessible.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

To begin with, today, I gave her a set of immediate action items, including starting a blog, a PPC campaign with some ideas on how to position her keywords, as well as some guidance on merchandising. Very cool concept, designed by an energy scientist, upon which J.J. Ancient Tomorrow. wants to develop a mystery show.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Below we copy from Steve Blank’s blog. Blank asks a lot of the right questions in his blog post: Am I a Founder? Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. takes to be a founder or co-founder of a company, or even an early participant. Reply Are You Ready? The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Just for reference, Slidebean is a SaaS presentation software where users can add content, and a finished presentation is designed automatically. Nov-15: Graphic Designer (growth/product). They also love beautifully crafted design, or even exclusivity. Don’t underestimate small blogs! Aug-15: Head of Sales (growth team).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Education program must emphasize the need to start with customer needs and design your entire product development strategy around a customer development blueprint, as you put it so very well. Reply shiftMode » Blog Archive » Nobody Cares About Your Product , on August 31, 2009 at 2:30 pm Said: [.]

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

Though it wasn’t intended, the last two articles I wrote on the PlainFlow blog have formed a series: The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data is a walkthrough that shows how companies use Modern SaaS Stack to cover their Marketing/Support/Sales activities from day-0. A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

“A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author – in other words, anyone producing works of art – needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living” Kevin Kelly, 1,000 True Fans. While some say that its 1,000 true fans needed, others say its much less.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 talks about the concept of implicit egoism in this article on the Shopify blog. Urban Outfitters on the other hand, uses typography and design to communicate a real hipster vibe.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2019

Every aspect of your restaurant’s design should fulfill one or of these two roles : . Understand your customer’s motivations when designing promotions as you want to blow your trumpet around a trait that the customer would readily agree with, and thus respond to every time. Helps customers identify with your restaurant. Promotions.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. A demand generation manager’s responsibilities involve creating and distributing targeted content ( blog posts , podcasts, and thought leadership) that educates potential customers on solving common challenges relevant to their product or industry.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 talks about the concept of implicit egoism in this article on the Shopify blog. Urban Outfitters on the other hand, uses typography and design to communicate a real hipster vibe.

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Reply One difference between VCs and Entrepreneurs « Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog , on April 20, 2009 at 7:06 am Said: [.] Reply Reversible vs. Irreversible Decisions at Oregonstartups.com Blog , on April 26, 2009 at 4:25 pm Said: [.] Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

An industry report or “ultimate” guide offers more to the target audience than a general “top tips” blog post. According to MetrixLab , who conducted “numerous advertising meta-analyses across more than 20 different verticals, and in every major region globally,” 12 themes are most common in the strongest digital ad creative: Image source.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

WordPress is the most popular blogging platform on the web. It is flexible for blog writing. WordPress on its own can easily handle simple blogging sites with low traffic. Vertical Scalability. Vertical scaling websites are acquiring hardware with increased capabilities. Why Scaling Is Important. At OpsWorks Co.,

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 talks about the concept of implicit egoism in this article on the Shopify blog. Urban Outfitters on the other hand, uses typography and design to communicate a real hipster vibe.

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105