ConversionXL

APRIL 23, 2019

This is different from the rest. Should the main menu be horizontal or vertical? While there’s a strong case against left-vertical menus , two studies (2003 and 2004) claim it’s better. If you do use vertical menus, make sure they’re aligned left. Modified-Delphi method.

Architecture 114

Architecture Metadata Vertical Design 114

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It’s very frustrating to be led through a long conversation with no substance to be told no. But, when you listen to some of these successful founders, you start to see how similar they are to the rest of us in their early struggles, and you start to feel less lonely on this journey. For startups, time is our most precious commodity.

Technical Review 65

Technical Review San Francisco Artificial Inteligence Cofounder 65

ConversionXL

APRIL 30, 2019

Too often, companies in the same vertical adopt a “me-too” approach in their design aesthetic. From what I’ve noticed, this is for two main reasons: The internal conversation about design aesthetic devolves into one about features, rather than developing a distinct visual identity. more years than the rest.

Design 132

Design eCommerce Search Chile 132

ConversionXL

MARCH 22, 2013

Mashable named 2013 “The Year of Responsive Design” But is responsive web design actually the answer to boosting mobile conversions? The company is implementing both a responsive design and a tablet-optimized catalog to boost their mobile and tablet conversions, and clearly its paying dividends. Think Thank Photo.

Mobile 115

Mobile Conversion Design Dividend 115

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

It’s such a difficult and often counterintuitive game that the more time and attention you devote to accepting guidance at the beginning, the more misery you will be spared in your golfing career for the rest of your days. Get immersed, and spare them some of the misery that often comes along with self-teaching.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Incubator Software Review Vertical 48

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

If you understand why each metric is where it is, the rest of this post will fill you with euphoric joy rarely experienced without physical contact. The number is computed based on a ML algorithm that has learned from deep analysis of your user behavior and conversion data. Reflect on the above picture. If yes, hurray!

Analytics 93

Analytics Framework Metrics Algorithm 93

Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

By connecting Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and the rest of the state into a Texas S tartup Megatropolis we can unlock billions of dollars in capital and unleash thousands of diverse entrepreneurs. Texas is the most promising technology investment opportunity in the United States and Capital Factory is going to turbocharge it.

Texas 97

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 97

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. The chart below illustrates this, with the black vertical line representing the average VC return. Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing.

Valuation 319

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 319

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. The chart below illustrates this, with the black vertical line representing the average VC return. Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing.

Valuation 295

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 295

View from Seed

AUGUST 13, 2014

Investors in this category are usually operating executives who have spent their entire careers in a specific industry vertical, like internet travel, for example. Pros: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections.

Angel Investor 334

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 334

SVPG

APRIL 28, 2012

John is starting to worry that Jane and the rest of the marketing team don’t get his product. Market and customer research (what matters in and beyond our category, what’s the engagement model of the people influencing product conversion or the perception of our product? Vertical/affiliate/evangelist programs.

Product 108

Product Technical Review Marketing Affiliate 108

ConversionXL

MARCH 9, 2016

Typically, when people think of false bottoms, they think of vertical scrolling. Research is an important part of any conversion. By not designing to accommodate scrolling, you’re taking away that part of the conversion. Since vertical scrolling is more familiar to most people, let’s start there.

Cost 48

Cost Vertical Portfolio Design 48

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2013

This is different from the rest. Should the main menu be horizontal or vertical? While there’s a strong case against the left vertical menus , two studies (2003 and 2004) actually claim it’s better. If you do use vertical menus, make sure they’re aligned left. Modified Delphi method.

Architecture 128

Architecture Metadata Vertical Global 128

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The VP of Sales comes to a board meeting, still optimistic, and provides a set of reasonable explanations – “our pipeline looks great, but orders will close next quarter” or “we’ve got lots of traffic to our site, we just need to work on conversion.” Just had a conversation today with a student taking Steve’s class.

Customer Development 224

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 224

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2023

Her new book Talking on Eggshells: Soft Skills for Hard Conversations , shows you how to speak up instead of shut down, face challenges head-on instead of running the other way, and keep your cool even when others don’t. Get your copy of Talking on Eggshells: Soft Skills for Hard Conversations Sam’s website. Like this show?

South Korea 56

South Korea Artificial Inteligence Audio Networking 56

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

We rebranded as TriNova to demonstrate an uncompromised approach to surface care – and the rest is history! After a few conversations, she offered up an alternative name for the company, “Find Your Influence.” The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. Thanks to Steve Wimmer, TriNova ! #7-

Naming 84

Naming Software Review Entrepreneur Atlanta 84

Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2019

How it plays out in your head: While waiting for their food, your customer would strike up congenial conversations about their lives with your staff—and they would love nothing more than to spend the last third of their visit filling up your feedback forms with praise. Run the numbers and make sure you can afford to take that chance!

Technical Review 86

Technical Review SBA Merger Customer 86

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This reminded me of a conversation with one of my direct reports years before my daughter was born. Our conversation went like this: Me: Jim, how are we doing with getting Ansys ported? The rest of the progress report sounded just like this. When I explained this to him, the conversation got heated. Conversion ideas?

Silicon Valley 324

Silicon Valley Software Review RSS Technical Review 324

ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2014

Then we went into my 3 favorite methods for increasing conversions by improving the search experience. A closer look reveals the search functionality just blends into the rest of the design, and isn’t intuitive to find when needed. In another case study , LED HUT was able to increase site search conversions by 200%.

Search 107

Search Design eCommerce Technical Review 107

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2015

Further reading: The Effects of Typography On User Experience and Conversions. Which is why banner ads need to stand out from the rest of the site elements in order be easily spotted. In November 2014, Google published findings that suggest vertical ad units are the most viewable. Use colors and size to make your ads stand out.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Vertical Advertising 48

Software By Rob

JULY 1, 2010

For a startup, this means avoiding “me too&# products, staying away from horizontal niches, solving a pain-point, and targeting a vertical niche. The lesson: stick to vertical niches. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation.

Software Review 54

Software Review RSS Startup Vertical 54

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. The chart below illustrates this, with the black vertical line representing the average VC return. Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing.

Valuation 156

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 156

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Investors in this category are usually operating executives who have spent their entire careers in a specific industry vertical, like internet travel, for example. PROS: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections.

Angel Investor 257

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 257

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Before you can even finish your pitch, people are already making judgments of your company, and bad names can be a real distraction to important conversations. Our startup creates custom vertical search and decision making engines for people or businesses with structured data. World Videos Featured: Facebook. Trending Stories.

Naming 84

Naming Startup Social Media RSS 84

Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

You can imagine the rest of the conversation; my sounding reluctant to let our own tests outside our building, the magazines begging us to let them have them, and finally a deal gets struck where we let the benchmarks out to the test labs of these magazines under their own name “The Potrero Benchmark Suite” without attribution to us.

Silicon Valley 124

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 124

ConversionXL

JUNE 3, 2014

But when they somehow stumble on the right things , they are able to see significant increases on conversions. What goes on in the rest of the page plays a huge role. It stands out from the rest of the page, acts as a visual cue to answer the question Where should I click? People have mostly no idea what to test. image source.

Conversion 132

Conversion Design Restful Web 132

Venture Chronicles

APRIL 19, 2010

Particularly interesting was the conversation with CEO Zach Nelson, who aside from presenting a confident and knowledgeable front for the company is a very likable guy who is willing to field tough questions and deliver thoughtful responses.

San Francisco 36

San Francisco Software Review Vertical Cloud 36

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

A contemporary analog to this type of vertical integration is Comcast/NBC-U. When Facebook was opening up their platform, these guys thought that it was an interesting way to do user acquisition and preference acquisition of individuals and that they would be able find a way to monetize it in commerce-oriented verticals.

Cofounder 277

Cofounder Merger Founder Venture Capital 277

Hunter Walker

JUNE 14, 2018

“Vertical Expertise” – More hands and minds around the industry maze they’re traversing. “Personal Support” – In what I hope is a mutually self-selecting outcome, we hear from founders who emphasize wanting investors they trust and feel like they can have real conversations with.

Cap Table 81

Cap Table Portfolio Vertical Reputation 81

Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

It was always a welcome change of pace to leave the brown of the unchanging desert and travel into town and have dinner with them and have a non-technical conversation about books, theater, politics, travel, etc. Her husband would look at me out the corner of his eyes and then we’d segue the conversation to some other topic.

Silicon Valley 184

Silicon Valley PR Technical Review RSS 184

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Right now, we are working a “Magic Mirror” demo for the show that allow people to walk up to a huge, 100-foot vertically placed TV and see themselves beamed into cyberspace. For the rest of the team, it’s their first. Long term, we believe that AR is going to completely change the retail experience.

Startup 70

Startup Artificial Inteligence Canada Engineer 70

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Twitter and Facebook can generate traffic, but when it comes to getting an immediate action, like a sales conversation, I’d rather hang out where business is being done, not where news articles and cat videos are consumed. Who cares: we want the shortest path to a conversation, not necessarily traffic to your site. Open rates: 70%+.

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Curation Lead Generation Technical Review Email 44

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

You can listen to the conversation on the Greymatter podcast here. The way that Travis had set up Uber was a kind of vertical stack, very loosely coupled efforts, and any GM was essentially the CEO of their own city. We’re having those conversations in the U.S., EPISODE TRANSCRIPT. And that is a great entrepreneurial setup.

Iran 39

Iran Technical Review Non-Compete Lean 39

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The rest of the entrepreneur interviews Pat does are very worthwhile listens also. They were critical to winning the rest of the market, which largely followed their moves. Cracking the code on product-market fit is “the only thing that matters” according to one of our largest and most helpful investors at data.world, Pat Ryan.

Software Review 48

Software Review Sales Cofounder Analytics 48

The Startup Toolkit

JULY 13, 2013

The public version is masked in positive spin and skirts the difficulties of the situation, but it’s clear that a series of honest and difficult conversations have happened behind closed doors. Without the willingness to focus, all the rest of this would have been just arm-waving. Here comes the fun bit! Colour me skeptical.

Engineer 41

Engineer Vertical Framework Acquisition 41

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Shortly after we moved our company from Michigan to Baltimore, we were fortunate to participate in Steve Case’s Rise of the Rest Pitch Competition. We are glad to be a part of the ethos of Steve Case’s and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund that we can build big businesses outside of the major tech cities.

Baltimore 62

Baltimore Africa South Africa Michigan 62

Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

If you look at the top 3 online retailers by conversion rate, none of these are award-winning designs : [link] [link] [link] However, they convert ~25% of visitors to customers. But the rest; sales, marketing, bus dev is actually customer development that the founder needs to understand. That’s 10x what many websites convert.

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Sales Silicon Valley RSS Las Vegas 120