YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2016

But what happens when you grow your business, start running ad campaigns, have more competition and need to stand out on mobile and the web? This is why companies like Nitro Circus now use the url nitrocircus.live to take web browsers straight to their tour dates page. What is the Search Engine Marketing (SEM) value of new domains?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. In a business plan these are only one of the many marketing campaigns which continue to rise in cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. In a business plan these are called marketing campaigns, which continue to rise in cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. In a business plan these are called marketing campaigns, which continue to rise in cost.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? Apache with Django and mod_wsgi » Posted by Aidan, 6 th July 2009. Firstly, theres no one-size-fits-all description.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. In a business plan these are called marketing campaigns, which continue to rise in cost.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. You have a marketing department with three people. They’re tasked with doing … marketing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. For example, its always nice to have someone constantly optimizing your SEM accounts, driving down your CPA. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

For some reason there is so much on this blog about the “business side” of things but not much technical stuff. So to make up for that this post covers some of the “technical” best practices around tracking with your web analytics tools, especially if you are using JavaScript tags. This is sub optimal.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

To support sales, Marketing tries to “make up a better story,” and the web site and/or product presentation slides start changing (sometimes weekly or even daily). on Cafepress, but is now literally priceless since the copyright owner put it on his blog.) The board raises a collective eyebrow. Absolutely priceless.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2010

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. In a business plan these are called marketing campaigns, which continue to rise in cost.

Viral 141

Viral Cost Marketing SEM 141

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

How many through SEM? If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? In 6 months?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

Over the last three years we saw an explosion in non-technical work, everything from data entry to customer service to marketing, SEO, SEM, legal, financial… We’ve reached the point now where if a job can be done in front of a computer, somebody’s doing it on oDesk.”. Another tip from inside oDesk is to be patient with raising your rates.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 23, 2017

The company’s mission is to bring web intelligence into business. Dapper Apps is an Australian-based mobile app development company, that specializes in the design and development of stunning and intuitive apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, and the Web. Leadfeeder. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). Where Stealth is Good – There’s a lot of discussions on the web about whether startups should be stealthy before they launch or not.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM. SEM only gets at one segment of users, and for a brand new product, you presumably need some skill at marketing in general and adsense in particular to get any useful info. This post has been removed by a blog administrator. I used to use $.05,

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Great blog! April 30, 2010 12:14 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) .

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” For most, it sounds like a magical process or a scam, with the experts spewing so many acronyms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2011

Web sites that haven’t been updated in the last couple of years can’t possibly be alive. These days, the best way to provide fresh content is to attach your blog to the website, and add new entries at least a couple of times a month. Contact related web sites that are well known, to request reciprocal links. Web page title tags.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

Today, we’ll cover small business web design best practices and tips. Many things have changed – we’ll point you to great new resources and examples – but the fundamental best practices of good web design have remained consistent. Tip: Keep the web design and navigation consistent throughout the site.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years. If you’re just a content company your advantages are too small to win on the web. But you don’t need to spend money on SEM. You have to have some of your own content formats and not just be an aggregator of talent.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. ► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 Expo SF (May.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) . Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

We talk about taking advantages of the incredible agility offered by modern web architecture for extremely rapid deployment, etc. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components? Expo SF (May.

Customer Development 131

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Add a blog to give yourself a voice, show your expertise, but skip the sales pitch. Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

And since I have a blog, I have a way to ask questions directly to you. Heres what I want to know: First of all, the NPS question : On a scale of 1-10 (where 10 is most likely), how likely is it that you you would recommend this blog to a friend or colleague? Eric, great blog. How annoying!) How did you hear about it?

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 133

ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

Karl Gilis , web usability consultant and international speaker, is a big fan of comparative user testing: Karl Gilis: “For me, it’s incredibly interesting to see what the users like and dislike about the sites of my client’s competitors. Common themes in the participants’ responses are a great foundation for hypotheses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Labels: Test-driven development 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) .

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

How do you find that perfect Twitter handle or that ideal epithet for your blog, website or startup — one that’s snappy and memorable, and that you won’t hate by next year? to get the scoop on finding a name that will work on the web. They are simple, intuitive and help consumers easily identify the mandate of a blog or company.

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Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

New Century, New Channels For many of you reading this, boxes sitting on a retail shelf may seem hopelessly outdated, but the same marketing lessons hold for “award winning&# web sites or social media. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) Blog at WordPress.com.

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Sales Silicon Valley RSS Las Vegas 120

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

October 17, 2009 10:34 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) . Expo SF (May.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

See Also: The Top 10 Tools for Tracking Your Web Metrics. Nailing an article in a major tech blog is a hit or miss, but I’ve successfully managed to get two of our product launches featured in Techcrunch and TheNextWeb. Don’t underestimate small blogs! Google AdWords or SEM (expensive). Successful and failed experiments.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

As Seth writes this week in Seths Blog: Listening to the loud people , the most aggressive customers arent necessarily the ones you want to hear from. Thanks Eric, your blog has many golden nuggets!!! The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Was it an important or irrelevant fact that most of our web code was procedural and not object-oriented? I would love to see some blog posts on any experiences you have had with set-based design. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Heres what the one-line split-test looks like in pseudocode: if( setup_experiment(.) == "control" ) { // do it the old way } else { // do it the new way } The call to setup_experiment has to do all of the work, which for a web application involves a sequence something like this: Check if this experiment exists. Buy a higher quantity 2.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Labels: continuous deployment 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) .

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