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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

But, historically, they’ve undermined monetization—requiring crawler access that savvy users exploit and demanding free clicks for searchers. For users in those countries, we put all content behind a registration wall. Access to three articles per day—still as many as 93 articles per month—sated most users.

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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

Proxies like backlinks and keywords have long been—and still are—stand-ins for the likelihood that a web page will satisfy user intent. A page that’s well-matched for user intent can outperform those that optimize primarily for search engines—in search and after the click. Users want to Know more about something.” Website. “

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The Creator Economy is rising, but challenges abound

VC Cafe

“A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author – in other words, anyone producing works of art – needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living” Kevin Kelly, 1,000 True Fans. ” Eric Feng. ” Eric Feng. Gen Z and the 1% rule.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

Snap’s revenue is a function of two numbers: number of users, and average revenue per user (ARPU). User Growth Snap’s user growth came to a near stop after Instagram launched a direct clone called Stories in September of 2016: Snap’s daily active users grew just 3% in Q4 2016. years to grow its user base 4x.

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East meets West: Why Chinese app developers are targeting US smartphone owners

The Next Web

It makes use of sentence and word gesture technology, as well as contextual prediction, touting to save users about 60 percent keystrokes. In the Western world, most of the users are middle-class. On the other hand, in China, most of the users, the majority, are not well educated and in big cities working in foreign companies.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition.