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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Turns out, there was aboslutely no demand whatsoever for that particular product.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

He figured out quickly that there was a demand for printed tutorials. For $35, people can get a printed copy of a tutorial so that they can use while creating a website. He said they found some sh*ty online print on demand service who could take credit cards and went from there. You can get more sign-ups using viral techniques.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

In places where international diplomacy had failed, citizens around the world found their individual and collective voices to topple dictatorships and demand better lives for themselves and future generations. The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

Determining which of these methods of staffing software development projects is right for your company can be a challenging endeavor, and three opposing characteristics of business need to be considered: cost, risk and convenience. Properly handling risk management, decision making and cost control demands flexibility and advanced planning.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. These investors usually raise a smaller fund and make investments into startups that range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. What will you find here?

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. These investors usually raise a smaller fund and make investments into startups that range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. What will you find here?

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9 Things You Should Know About Social Login & CRO

ConversionXL

Tests conducted by web development firm Imaginary Landscape showed websites that require users to enter a large amount of data lost out in terms of conversions. I broke down the stats and found websites decrease conversion by 17% for each required data point.