Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? I dont think so.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

For example, in 2021 accounting software platform Bill.com acquired spend management tool Divvy in order to increase its market share. For example, a software company that opens a restaurant would be employing unrelated diversification. See [via Harvard Business Review ]. million (including over $10 million from Divvy).

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Experience Five years experience directing IT; a further five years software engineering management or operations management experience ; and two years experience in a start-up or highly entrepreneurial environment. Choose platform and architecture for prototypes and V1 projects, and provide cost-effective 80/20 solutions.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. Monday, February 12, 2007. on a scale of 1-4). on a scale of 1-4).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

Today, we’ll review 10 web design marketing best practices and tips for restaurant web design. Remember too that many customers will find your restaurant’s homepage after reading reviews, so keep the content on your homepage focused and short.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2014

When starting Blog For Web , a site that tries to help bloggers, we tried dozens of software tools before we figured out what would be best. You should never use more software products than you actually need. Try to minimize the use of online software tools and only consider those that actually help you. Business Needs.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Reviewing a competitor’s online presence helps me understand how to differentiate my client. reviews, trust). Here’s Tony DeYoung explaining his process to do just that: Tony DeYoung: I always do competitive analysis for SEO and SEM. The lean, aggressive ones do.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

For tips on creative effective calls to action, I suggest you review 10 Techniques For An Effective ‘Call To Action’ 2. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM). But SEO and/or SEM campaigns can provide great leverage to small businesses and as a result, should not be ignored.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

For tips on creative effective calls to action, I suggest you review 10 Techniques For An Effective ‘Call To Action’ 2. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM). But SEO and/or SEM campaigns can provide great leverage to small businesses and as a result, should not be ignored.

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

Reviewing a competitor’s online presence helps me understand how to differentiate my client. I analyze the story the competitors tell with their landing pages, their site UX, and transparency (reviews, trust). Here’s Tony DeYoung explaining his process: Tony DeYoung: “I always do competitive analysis for SEO and SEM.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 23, 2017

While some weren’t able to share the entire process due to privacy issues, they did share a specific section in the process… 1. If you’re still with me here, this is where the fun begins. Let’s get inspired by these companies’ successful customer journey map examples. Leadfeeder. ” Click to enlarge. IdeaRocket.

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searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

Enterprise SEM. Overview: What Is SEM? SEM Columns. Our SEM Events. How To: SEM / Paid Search. Enterprise Social Media Management Software. About The Author: Conrad Saam is the Director of Marketing for Urbanspoon , the widely loved restaurant reviews and reservations site and Top 25 iPhone app.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

In the past I have recommended Web Link Validator from REL Software as something we have had a positive experience with. It can do a lot more than check missing tags, see the website for all the features, so all around a good piece of software to have. Another cool benefit is that the async code collects more data, more accurately.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Analytics Web Software Review 93

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Page360 awesome post W3 Consulting Note: you can have multiple domain names: one for conventional (and one for emotional) branding purposes, several for SEO/SEM purposes, and several for Web analytics (where are my *offline* advertising dollars breeding positive ROI?). Keep it up i look forward to reading more. What will you find here?

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

But, when a techie is in the heady throws of the neat idea/fun coding honeymoon, that kind of stuff is not really on their minds. It’s all about the code at that point, and being lost in codespace is fun and rewarding in its own right. Mired In Code. Technology Review. And… what else?”). Garr Reynolds.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. Examples of free products include Open Source software, services like HubSpot’s Website Grader , free versions of a SaaS service that have limited, but still valuable, feature sets, etc.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This can result in calling a result early due to “spotting a trend” (impossible). Server-side tools render code on the server level. Gershoff from Conductrics summed it up well: If your testing software only does one type or the other, don’t sweat it. What you’ll find is that many test results regress to the mean.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When WordStream began receiving complaints that the seven-day free trial of their PPC management software wasn’t long enough, the brand decided to A/B test 14-day and 30-day trials. Validating this assumption can be as simple as using a UTM code to measure traffic from this specific page. The results?

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. Software Testing. These platforms provide employers with an advantage in terms of hiring and managing employees, while ensuring that all payments due are transparent, accurate, and on time. Creative Design. Sales and Marketing. Graphic Designing. Mobile App Development. Game Development.

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Transformify

AUGUST 27, 2017

You don’t have the right people on board, you are burning cash and the work is not done, at its worst, your product is already live and you are losing clients due to software bugs and poor user experience. This could be the right move as the software development companies have well-trained teams which mitigates the risk.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Here’s the most common one which I got just this week: I’ve read somewhere in your blog about how you had a very large organisation as the first customer for your software. I spent only hundreds of dollars a month and covered the entire spectrum of SEM. The fallacy here is that you can copy what I did and get a customer.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

The next obvious transition was the rise of the browser in 1996, which transformed not only the software application market but also the print and media world. On the browser, SEO and SEM are paramount, but the equivalent tools on mobile are either non-existent or at best immature. The distribution techniques are completely new.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

uTest has established itself as the world’s largest marketplace for software testing services, with over 25,000 testers in over 160 countries. With verticals such as web, gaming, mobile and desktop software, utest has managed to tap into the vast market of companies that don’t have in-house QA teams.

Software Review 138

Software Review Venture Capital Technical Review SEM 138

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So I kind of just like put the two and two together and created software for real estate. It was like an open house sign in software. Are you ready to take your business to the next level, to get seen, get SEMrush, visit SEMrush.com that's SEM rush.com/go.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

For tips on creative effective calls to action, I suggest you review 10 Techniques For An Effective ‘Call To Action’ The call to action (CTA) on your homepage is an important element to draw visitors deeper into your site. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM).

Web 134

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

I frequently see promising startups with a great product and strong initial economics hit a wall due to the piling up of problems relating to these questions, or what I like to call the ‘DTC death by a thousand cuts’. How will you take advantage of SEO and SEM? What about appealing to a certain lifestyle category?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

This post will outline the entire process, giving code examples, data analysis examples, survey questions—the whole thing. They can be utilized across teams— UX , CRO, social media, SEM, SEO , etc., Here’s the code in R for that (where x is your data frame): pcanalysis <- prcomp(x, scale = TRUE, center = TRUE) plot(pcanalysis).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

For tips on creative effective calls to action, I suggest you review 10 Techniques For An Effective ‘Call To Action’ You should incorporate minimal textures and subtle gradients, where appropriate, to highlight different areas of the site. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM).

Web 48

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

This post will outline the entire process, giving code examples, data analysis examples, survey questions – the whole thing. They can be utilized across teams – UX, CRO, Social Media, SEM, SEO, etc., Here’s the code in R for that (where x is your data frame): pcanalysis <- prcomp(x, scale = TRUE, center = TRUE).

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Software Review Design Agile Analytics 102

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. at 11:09 AM.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

This can result in calling a result early due to ‘spotting a trend’ (impossible). Server-side tools render code on the server-level and send a randomized version of the page to the viewer with no modification on the visitor’s browser. PPC/SEM campaign. 53 Conversion Optimization Tools Reviewed By Experts. Source type.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Analytics Framework Software Review 48

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! You get unlimited graphic designs, website, funnels, CRM, email automation, integrations, automations, really anything that requires you to log into software. Imagine all the time and frustrations you can save from trying to get your tech work done properly. Ryan: Sure.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2022

Thanks to Ray Leon, Pet Insurance Review ! #3- Thanks to Masha Mahdavi, SEM Dynamics ! #10- Thanks to Christen Costa, Gadget Review ! #16- Consumer expectations are not what they used to be due to which digital entrepreneurship is in full bloom now more than it was ever. Photo Credit: Rachel Roff.

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