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The Effects of Typography on User Experience & Conversions

ConversionXL

John Paul Mains shares the result of one client who saw improvements in conversions after changing the font size from 10px 13px to be more readable – I wonder what would happen if he pushed it even further? For example, in the Google/IBM study, they found that serif font Georgia was read 7.9% What were the results?

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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

Costing $250,000 ($3.2 Each ATLAS I cost the NSA $1.3 When they couldn’t find any customers they donated the ERA 1101 to Georgia Tech. ATLAS II cost the NSA $2.3 million in today’s dollars), it had 7,000 tubes and was one of the first Agency machines to use a magnetic drum to store and handle data. This was the Bogart.

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Five entrepreneurs get free plane tickets to pitch for $100,000 in seed funding from Austin’s top…

Austin Startup

Indeed.com said that Austin is the best place for a software engineer to get a job where his paycheck goes the farthest compared to the cost of living. Talent in Austin’s isn’t just more affordable, it’s easier to retain talent because they are less likely to get poached by the hot startup in Silicon Valley. for the second year in a row.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

The benefit of the hammer and the dance is lower, and also the cost is higher." Here's my conversation with Tomas Pueyo. Look, first of all, in these conversations, the number of times that the story begins on Twitter is remarkable. It's focused on how to learn as fast as possible with as little cost as possible.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Cove.tool

Austin Startup

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Cove.tool is a game-changing, machine learning technology that helps users discover smarter ways to make their buildings energy efficient while saving on construction costs. To make sure every new construction and renovation is optimized for energy and cost.

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The Proven Framework For Building A Thriving Community

Duct Tape Marketing

We've had lots of conversations on is social media community and I think social media enables community. And she ended up running an hour and a half long conversation around taxes and tax strategies and how entrepreneurs can think about this and left our little two day event with seven new clients. Wouldn't you say?

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Critique: Increasing Your Conversion Rate (part II)

ConversionXL

This is the second post in the series with more conversion-boosting advice. Studies have shown that perpetual shopping cart works well for conversions: displaying the content of the shopping cart on every page. Do it – an excellent headline can already double your conversions or more. It hurts conversions.