Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

They walked through 4 minutes of PowerPoint garble (of a 5 minute pitch) before unveiling a beautifully designed UI. The classroom activities are recorded and the video is appended with comments from a remote coach. As I’m sure Pip.io would acknowledge – they needed to get to the demo more quickly. Ambitious goals.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

7:30] Would you say self-publishing is seen as a differentiator for businesses? [11:42] People wanna get on the speaking circuits for whatever, you know, industry or vertical they're in. [2:25] Is self-publishing a more profitable way to publish today? [5:12] 5:12] Why would someone want to self-publish a book? [7:30]

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

The company was founded to build games with embedded video to bring Hollywood stories, characters, and narratives to a market where “shoot and die” twitch games were in vogue. In the game business of the early 1990’s video was at best a brief narrative, a distraction you maybe watched once, not the core of the game.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

It can also guide on-page content choices, content strategy, or web design. Tracking based on intent is a smarter way to prioritize content expansion, new page creation, or page design tweaks. Using search intent data for page design and development. Design pages to satisfy active intent first. Individual sites?

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Our design team is comprised of top talent who have been laid off or have grown disenchanted with the big corporate models of major fashion brands (though by requirement they all have at least 5 years of major corporation experience). Thanks to Stefanie Tacata, Stateless Fashion Design and Consulting. #2 crew, Aeropostale, etc.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

I love the way you differentiate. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Would you be interested in guest posting? Jacob Webb Everyday Entrepreneurship [link] Reply Keenan , on April 20, 2009 at 2:12 pm Said: Steve, Your Hueristics are at the core. Sometimes, it’s the failures or mistakes that lead to the successess.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

While not all of our investments will pay off in the long run, we are willing to take these risks in an attempt to create the best and most differentiated products in the market.” The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2015

As a designer agency we spent along time creating this logo and we still love it. She started to sketch ideas and eventually and she came up with the design. My next step was to give the sketch to my web designer, Janet Barclay Organized Assistant, because part of my web package included a graphic designer creating the logo.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Here is the video link or click on the image above. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. What’s your point of view on next generation video entertainment? (34:30 He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. It includes brand awareness tactics like press releases and influencer marketing , as well as more product-specific efforts, such as case studies and middle- or bottom-of-funnel walkthrough videos. SEO should lead with intent.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2014

In another study, Granify, a CRO software company, conducted a real time behavior analysis of 20+ million visitors over 5 different verticals and also found that “lower prices” was not as pervasive as we may have believed. a more visually compelling and evocative site design ? Shipping Costs. Wait a second?!

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Do it yourself, Design it yourself, Distribute it yourself, 3D it yourself – in fact we can nearly make anything in home or certainly procure it via global production hubs like alibaba.com We can make anything because all the tools of production have been democratized for ever. Cities are now becoming vertical again.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Because of the vagaries of how floating point units in computers were designed, your average IBM mainframe of the day would take forever to run a simulation application. Reply Idont , on October 16, 2009 at 9:12 am Said: How can you differentiate if you copy-paste the well established leader. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Reply Pros and cons of Push and Pull product positioning and differentiation « Yet Another (ex-)VC Blog , on February 21, 2010 at 11:14 am Said: [.] Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Isso sem mencionar que, dependendo do problema, em alguns casos fica bastante difícil “voltar atrás&#. Blog at WordPress.com.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Top Stories Photo & Video Galleries Top Lists Trending Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video More Topics. Facebook Timeline: 10 Stunning Designs [PICS]. Then research which journalists at that publication cover the vertical in which your startup or its news would fall. Jobs Awards Welcome to Mashable!

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 Urban Outfitters on the other hand, uses typography and design to communicate a real hipster vibe. million in 2004 to $6.5 image source. And yet…Forrester found that 70% of(.)

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 Urban Outfitters on the other hand, uses typography and design to communicate a real hipster vibe. million in 2004 to $6.5 image source. And yet…Forrester found that 70% of(.)

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 Urban Outfitters on the other hand, uses typography and design to communicate a real hipster vibe. million in 2004 to $6.5 image source. And yet…Forrester found that 70% of(.)

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Our company’s graphics boards were designed to speed up a key part of the Macintosh graphics operating system called QuickDraw. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Next, we needed to focus our messages away from technology and onto what the customers told us they needed – performance solutions for four key publishing applications.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 I asked Jonah about his started position in photos, lists, GIFs and text and where he thought video fit in.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 Urban Outfitters on the other hand, uses typography and design to communicate a real hipster vibe. million in 2004 to $6.5 image source. And yet…Forrester found that 70% of(.)

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Web design should be the same way. Matt Cronin, a freelance designer and developer, explains tabbed navigation well… Matt Cronin , Freelance Designer / Developer : “Well, it is essentially a set of buttons most often set horizontally. One of my favorite UX quotes comes from Chikezie Ejiasi , UX lead at Nest. via LukeW).

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Most brilliant “Internet of Things” ideas are quicksand for capital unless you have the branding, vertical integration and customer lock-in that Apple achieved. Going from design to manufacturing is a long, imprecise, circular and human-dependent process (even more so than writing and deploying code!).

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

And Pinterest lights up around home design, apparel, food and other commercial items. (I But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. Twitter responds far better to true news and topical information sharing. David Pakman.

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ConversionXL

JULY 27, 2015

Designing for accessibility has user experience benefits for everybody. ( Click to Tweet ). In Design Modo’s Ultimate UX Design of the Credit Card Payment Form they encourage you to be as obvious as possible. CX Partners agreed that users found it easiest to scan a form with vertical field labels. Image Source.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

User experience design and research. Case study: Icon design. Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Alex Poole. Site français. Skip to content. Deliverables. Applications.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 3, 2019

This post contains video, click to play]. For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals such an offer might require a significant lift in sales to break even. Urban Outfitters on the other hand, uses typography and design to communicate a real hipster vibe.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Chapter 4: Brand Identity Design: the Building Blocks of Your Brand Identity. Chapter 5: Designing Your Brand Identity. Put another way: a designer’s job isn’t to design a brand. Designers design the brand identity (explained in Chapter 5 ). Chapter 2: Creating Your Brand Strategy. style guide.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. 3 William Pietri on 08.11.09

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

That is where Libox , a new Tel Aviv-based startup offering a free service to share and store photos, videos and music, wants to disrupt the industry. He took time to travel and during his travels took a lot of videos/pictures. The problem of iTunes, Picasa and Bitorrent is that they are designed to the desktop. It takes time.

Media 84

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The VP of Marketing looked at all the other PDAs on the market and differentiated Handspring’s product by emphasizing its superior expandability and performance. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. End result? After twelve months Handspring’s revenue was $170 million. Unless the CEO of spring is a unique genius. Blog at WordPress.com.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. The way the system’s designed, it’s just instinctive for them to do this. People price differentiate all the time. It’s prone to failure by design.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

So, they can watch it on Hulu, or it’s on Amazon Prime Video. Because again, that’s a differentiated small town is their individual small businesses. And so, we always tell small business, compete on what you can be differentiated around. But also diversity of the kind of category or vertical of business.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Netflix went from mailing DVDs to streaming video. For example, if you’re an early-stage SaaS provider that is shifting from a horizontal solution to a vertical focus, your mission, culture, and competencies can stay the same and the pivot transition will probably go smoothly. Apple went from Apple II to the Macintosh to iOS.

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