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Paranoid Companies Miss the Best New Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product. It was heavy on visual development capability but light on modeling and simulation, and we kept battling a competitor in the marketplace who had essentially the inverse strengths in a similar product. Cross endorsement.

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Your Toughest Competitor May be Your Best Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product. It was heavy on visual development capability but light on modeling and simulation, and we kept battling a competitor in the marketplace who had essentially the inverse strengths in a similar product. Cross endorsement.

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

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was selected due to its ranking for evergreen queries, such as “things to do in Canada.” Other publishers had similar issues , as Taneth Evans , Head of Audience Development at The Times in London, detailed: There were too many flaws with the model to participate, so the business opted out. The travel section on Independent.ie

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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

Secondly, developers are more productive. Because Stewart’s programmers are ten times more productive than they were in 2001 due to massive advances in programming language technology. Thirdly, the market is far bigger. In 1998, I was working at Netscape, which owned well over half of the browser market.

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10 Startup Prospects That Multiply If You Look Ahead

Startup Professionals Musings

Traditional business intelligence (and data mining) software does a very good job of showing you where you’ve been. Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. Movies are selected, or recommended to customers, based on past reviews, related interests, or analysis of Twitter comments.

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How to Recognize Great Conversion Optimization People

ConversionXL

So when you hire one, you have to be able to review and critique the outcome. 8 They have (at least basic) coding skills. Setting up A/B tests that are involve more than just changing button copy, need basic coding skills – javascript/jquery. Shitty copywriters are everywhere – I know since I’ve hired many.

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What you have to know about conversion optimization

ConversionXL

This division is done automatically by software (see the end of the article). This is not a lesson in physics, but a conversion formula developed by Marketing Experiments. A confused mind always says ‘no’, goes the old direct marketing adage. C = 4m + 3v + 2(i-f) – 2a. CityCliq: 88.9%