The Startup Magazine

MAY 20, 2024

Photo by Alexander Sinn on Unsplash Web Scraper API Solutions One powerful and unconventional method for extracting data is through web scraper APIs, which enable programmatic extraction from websites instead of manual extraction. It’s win-win: you get exactly what you need, while participants earn extra income.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2018

When first partnering with a web host to help them build their online presence, many people aren’t aware of the numerous benefits that come with choosing a locally-based company. A local web host will also help you expand your local audience base. A Local Host Uses Local Servers, Just Like Your Audience.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

I think that the big challenge for liberal democracies is, how do we ensure that the conversation we’re having is a real and authentic conversation with the people we think we’re having it with? I think the conversation happening on Facebook right now is incredibly polluted by people who have ill will and Ill intention.

Technology 327

Technology Security Internet Video 327

Board Effect

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

With so much change going on in the world today, it’s clear that an intricate web of disruptive factors for nonprofits is a prime issue for nonprofit boards. Nonprofit boards may need to explore innovative financing options such as conditional conversion models, pay-for-success models, or debt/guarantee models.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Measuring website conversion is actually a very simple formula. Growth-hacking your company takes place as you learn to read your website conversion rates and optimize for the growth. Practice these five practical tactics for improving your website conversion rates. The conversion formula is calculated as a percentage.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

They’re used to using the web and increasingly the mobile web for everything, commerce, communication, games, etc. While there are 564 million web users with 420 million having mobile web access, 74% of Chinese Internet users make less than $500/month and are students, blue-collar workers or jobless. Unlike U.S.

China 218

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

As we spring to action full of passion I wanted to share with you all a short list of things that will expand your little world of online marketing & web analytics. Change is hard, even if we know that we should be executing a multiplicity strategy to win in the web analytics 2.0 That's sucking. I mean count them.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The Hong Kong government was out in full force at the event as well, sharing their challenges in putting together a case for Cloud adoption by the government. Our CloudSSL is an SSL distribution service available via API and is designed specifically to help web services operate securely in the Cloud.

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Asia Cloud Software Review China 222

Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

It improves traffic and increases conversions. Conversions are crucial to say that SEO strategies are working. You can have a fantastic website, well-designed, and full of great content, but if it is not SEO-worthy, it will not be found on search engines and will not get leads and conversions.

Software Review 94

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 28, 2016

I’m glad I did – the conversation with John was stimulating. He has a vision and the experience to create a non-partisan organization to engage and educate people, especially policymakers in government, regarding the critical importance of entrepreneurs and startups to innovation, economic growth, and job creation.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

They are from my post The Biggest Mistake Web Analysts Make… And How To Avoid It! Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. We focus on the better conversion rate definition, divide it by Visitors (or Users in GA). Pharmaceutical: Humira.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2020

If you’re fortunate enough to land a meeting with a VC firm, you’ll be at an advantage if you can hold your own—or even confidently lead—a conversation that touches on digital marketing tactics. Linking to government and academic websites can be an effective SEO tactic. Web hosting. No web host, no site. It’s that simple.

Marketing 142

Marketing Technical Review SEO Hosting 142

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 12, 2018

To assess the State of the Conversion Optimization Industry in 2018, we gave a 26 question survey to 701 people who work in the optimization space. All other industries combined—SaaS, Lead Gen, Publishing/Media, Non-profit/Government) make up just 34.9% Does your team have a conversion optimization process that you follow?

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The Next Web

JULY 18, 2013

“Tonight will mark a milestone where Croydon shows that it has what it takes to become a credible player in the European startup scene,” Rose told The Next Web. “In We have Tink Taylor from dotMailer based out there, he’s also our ambassador as well, so he steers a lot of conversations with guys who are interested in this opportunity.

Government 121

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

For four of the examples, I'll also share how the visualization inspired me to apply the lessons to my web analytics data. Now I can quite literally follow the path to every conversion. This example is about the very sad reality of the Ebola epidemic and the sadder still inaction by governments (like ours).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 dot-com bonanza. A seed round these days is $3–5 million or more! Seed has become an option factory for many.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Finally there were questions we can always count on: setting goals and tracking conversions, justifying analytics and wanting to track the absolutely impossible ( why can't I track people across all devices and all websites? ). Web Analytics tools in the market are not the answer (especially across multi-channel and multi-devices).

Analytics 124

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 25, 2012

For example, people are really shocked when they hear that even with no web analytics or advertising analytics tool on a site their behavior on the site gets automatically logged into server web logs. Web Data Collection Context: Cookies and Tools. Check what type of cookies your web analytics tool uses. Be careful! :)].

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0 Forum December 9th Lineup - Startup Houston , November 27, 2010 When to step on the gas and go for it?

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Silicon Valley Startup Term Sheet Venture Capital 378

ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

Its mission —“to be Earth’s most customer-centric company”—depends on understanding and resolving online shoppers’ pain points, whether through web design tweaks or free-and-fast delivery. Lead generation sites can expect to double their conversion rates. For conversion optimization, user research is pivotal. Image source ).

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Austin Startup

JUNE 16, 2021

Mobile and Web Views of Media Sourcery’s Cold Chain solution When my team and I look at blockchains, like many other developers we see different programmable constructs that we can integrate into existing or contemplated solutions to make them better. not as a hash, but the actual data.

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Metadata Texas Technical Review Houston 62

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 20, 2017

Any government is only all powerful as long as the system it operates under is stable, and the people allow it to continue to control its market. A Government is just like a business in many ways. While the government is a monopoly in most of its realms, what if technology could assist us to ‘go around it’?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Many describe DApps (Decentralized Applications) as being “trustless,” in that users don’t need to exhibit trust in each other since the laws of the DApp itself govern every interaction. We’re very excited about the evolution of the Internet and our primary gateway to it, Web Browsers. What trend is your team most excited about?

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! A Compilation of the Web’s Best Advice for Entrepreneurs – [link]. 10 web start-ups (all mine) … and why they failed – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 91

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Voice assistants are also set to continue their rise, with chatbots forming an increasing proportion of conversations made both over the phone and via text. With more and more Google searches being phrased as natural questions, it’ll be down to those who write for web to tailor their copy to meet the changing landscape.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? Here's my conversation with Brian Armstrong.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Easily Available In the Cloud on Amazon Web Services Announced just today, BlazingDB is available in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace creating a seamless launch and go. BlazingDB also runs “on disk” as opposed to “in memory” which benefits organizations with massive datasets where “in memory” is not a cost feasible solution.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. More tiers = more complication = more confusion. Same goes for television.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

Elite Camp is a traffic and (mainly) conversion event held in Estonia every summer. Bob Ruffalo : How IMPACT Used the ResearchXL Model to 3x Conversions from Content Marketing. Web analytics analysis: Most popular pages – optimize these! Hybrid Product analytics organization: Central teams for tools, methods, governance.

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Analytics Sweden Metrics Estonia 85

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The co-commerce era is here and defined by the 3 C’s – Collaboration, Conversations and Creativity. The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football. A bit like Silicon Valley.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

But if we were unique in a different dimension, that would turn the conversation into feature X versus Y. Or as a counter-example, when we had poor web design at WP Engine (weakness), we invested and got zero return , because it turned out that our words and product/market fit were 100x more important than design.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

If you have newly set up a digital marketing business or have already been running one for some time, practices like conversion rate optimisation (CRO) and pay-per-click (PPC) will be familiar to you. The function of CRO is to optimise your landing pages, sponsored search ads, and overall website layout to increase the conversion rate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

You can find my conversation with Sam in that format below. I wanted to start with a recent conversation I had with Sam Altman. Our conversation focuses on what investors can do, but also what all of us can do to help lead in a time like this. Here's my conversation with Sam Altman. I decided I would focus on that.

Silicon Valley 68

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

Build a web presence. A microbrewery in one state may be governed by very different rules than a microbrewery the next state over. The alcohol industry is governed at both the federal and state level. ” It’s important that you know and abide by all existing federal laws governing beer and alcohol.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Change agents inside a corporation or government agency know how to build consensus and be a rebel at work. Don Burke has worked 24+ years in the Federal government. Intellipedia helped show the way for many other “Web 2.0” They are attuned to finding colleagues who think like they do. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Maybe he’ll reveal our conversation when he announced. Most of the informed people I know are telling me that the sharp sell-off has more to do with European national debt (PIGS as it is called: Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain) than the current US dilemma of a S&P downgrade of the US government debt. But he got it done.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 19, 2017

So, too, should the Test Manager take direction from their cohort of subject matter experts: Product Managers, Technical Directors, Web Designers, and Customer Service Representatives.”. Kristal Decoux agrees: Kristal Decoux, Amazon Web Services. “I In the same way, the President is (or should be) surrounded by an experienced cabinet.

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