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How to Conduct a Technical SEO Audit

ConversionXL

Understand and maintain them and your website can rank prominently, drive traffic, and help boost sales. Identifying and merging content targeting the same or similar keywords; Removing duplicate content that dilutes importance, and; Improving metadata so that users see what they’re looking for in search engine results pages (SERPs).

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7 Short-Term Business Mistakes Can Limit Your Impact

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s easy to say “yes” to one more feature request after another, until the potential for real impact gets diluted. Yahoo has been an example of a company which expanded in all directions through 53 acquisitions, to the point where most customers were confused, and it was overtaken by Google as your main search engine.

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An Entrepreneur’s Journey Towards World Domination Begins With Achieving Key Milestones

YoungUpstarts

Raise too much capital at any given stage and suffer more dilution than is necessary – obviously not ideal. The goal was to set quantifiable metrics to hit in each category and to reverse engineer how many people and dollars would be required to get there. It’s part art, part science. Set Quantifiable Goals.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

what your product & engineering thought they cared about and you adapt your offering. While early-stage companies have all of their engineers working on product innovation, companies that want to scale realize that you also have to build systems to help with organizational scaling.

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How to Build a User Research Culture

ConversionXL

The key is to connect user research to an improved user experience and, in turn, an increase in customer retention, leads, or any other metric for which C-suite members are accountable. According to that same NNG research: Ecommerce sites can expect to double their sales. User research is the foundation for those gains. Image source ).

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The What & Why of Hiring a Great Startup COO

View from Seed

So when founders lose focus, they dilute their power and effectiveness, which diffuses the force of their impact. Or will you be fine with a head of marketing or a controller or a sales lead? The most valuable resource a founder has is his/her time and energy. But do you really need a COO?

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How to Raise Investment Capital - According to VC Jeff Clavier

ReadWriteStart

Jeff Clavier was the first tech investor I ever met; he was introduced to me years ago by some hip engineers in a bar as "one of the few cool VCs." At this stage, the founders pay for the dilution of the shares and the funders will take 20 to 25% of the company. The next stage is seed funding, and you should raise $500k-$1.5m