Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.” company setting up some subsidiary here and expecting them to compete while they were following U.S. But the differences are worth noting – it’s a young ecosystem, so startup management tools are nearly non-existent.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Plus, visiting someone repeatedly over a period of time can also provide valuable non-verbal clues to his or her values and concerns. Unless you have no problem with blatant rudeness, you’re focusing on the other person, responding not only to what they say, but also to their mood, movements, and many other non-verbal signals.

Social Media 263

Social Media Technical Review Non-Compete Email 263

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

The backdrop explained was that it was viewed that Korea has been tremendously successful at copying and perfecting other people’s technologies but in order to compete more effective in the future had to be more creative. Read the responses to this story on Medium.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

He wasn’t consciously giving a glib non-answer; he was understandably, desperately avoiding it. click and competed with no other advertisers. How did I get those initial fifty conversations with WordPress bloggers ? So I think the ideal customer is: SaaS, ISV, Web Products. But this was 2003 when AdWords was new.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

I haven’t read the book nor deeply reviewed Project Aristotle but the conversation on this morning’s show really resonated with me. But the conversation rang very true for me. My observation is that many companies become Game of Thrones with warring factions and competing interests.

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Pakistan Technical Review Iran Russia 150

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Also, don’t limit your consideration only to technical competencies, work experience, and professional credentials. Ideally, your brand should rise above the simple service provider and position itself as an influential voice, source of knowledge, and conversation starter. Make the company adaptable.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. Recently, the new trend has been integrating gaming dynamics into otherwise non-gaming social experiences, enabling friends to compete for status and bragging rights within the app.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 28, 2020

When you absolutely must keep conversations private, use a secure (encrypted if at all possible) suite that does better than the Gmails of the world to keep data on the downlow. Email hygiene is the set of practices that reduces your startup’s vulnerability to email-based attack as well as non-malicious (read: accidental) data loss.

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ConversionXL

MAY 25, 2016

increase in conversion rates. On-site and off-site user generated reviews both matter, and they both influence each other when it comes to conversions. Comparing a product to competing brands. In fact, Reevo found that the quantity of reviews alone correlates strongly with conversion rates: Image Source.

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Software Review Conversion Video SEO 80

ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2021

Indexability: This shows where a URL is indexable or non-indexable. Indexability status: The reason why a URL is non-indexable. This can increase bounce rate and hurt conversions. Optimization” in the above image links off to CXL’s conversion rate optimization guide. 302: Temporary redirect.

Technical Review 162

Technical Review SEO Software Review XML 162

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In my long professional career, I’ve tried to emulate these patterns and to build on them as I try to deliver a non-normal impact to my employers. When you bring a solution(s) along with the problem, in addition to demonstrateing empathy, you've gifted your boss some starting points for a productive conversation.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Competing businesses. Competing businesses may click on each other’s PPC ads to waste money. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses. Low or non-existent conversions. Click farms are often a combination of real people and bots.

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PPC IP Idaho Non-Compete 121

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

Research from Innoppl Technologies reveals that about 65 percent of sales reps who’ve adopted mobile CRM are achieving their sales goals; conversely, just 22 percent of reps using non-mobile CRM met those same targets. Mobile CRM advancements are paying off. GDPR compliance. Xavier Musy is Chief Architect at Swiftpage.

Sales 124

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

More specifically, you asked the hard questions, like: How can ecommerce companies compete with Alexa? Voice search will make some companies less competitive, like non-Amazon sellers of commodity goods. For many ecommerce companies, however, competing in voice search on Google is secondary to competing with Amazon Alexa.

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B2B eCommerce Search Non-Compete 100

ConversionXL

MAY 24, 2012

I was delivering a conversion optimization workshop the other day, and one person asked about how to talk yourself up on the website. Read this: In the present report the results of a series of experiments are described in which wine and beer drinkers were tested to measure their peripheral competency. ” The answer is no.

Software Review 119

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

We also talked about how he’d want to be interviewed if approached by a non-technical startup founder. (I’ve It’s amazing how often people don’t get to that in the conversation. NV: What are some questions someone non-technical can ask in these cases? NextView: So how does Google run its process?

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

Although some companies optimize their pricing well enough to receive more than 4 percent conversion rate from freemium into premium, the majority of SaaS products are lucky to achieve a rate as low as 1 percent. Conversion rates for underdeveloped products are likely to be much lower. In our example, it’s 20K non-paying customers.

Startup 110

Startup Non-Compete Viral Software Review 110

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

In the case of Credit Karma my first job is to identify what the Macro Conversion is. The next thing to answer this question, and ensure that I'm not a newbie Analyst who will only focus on 2% of the business success, I have to figure out the Micro Conversions. The single biggest reason for the site's existence. " Et al.

Web 139

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Version One Ventures

MAY 23, 2019

Chelsea started her first business when she was 12, and her first non-profit when she was 13. Reviewed data on bot conversion, had a discussion about % of future that’s managed services vs product. Spent an hour talking to people about an org change (3 separate conversations). Planned 2020 future salaries projections.

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Part-Time VPE Software Review Salary Non-Compete 135

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

And social media gave them all the ability to market their products in non-traditional ways. But I saw that there was a clear and emerging trend: technology was helping small businesses compete with large corporations. Since I had that conversation, their stock value has depreciated by 99%. We are more focused on design.”.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Why us”/ “Team Slide” unclear or non-existent. While a lot of the focus is on getting the initial ‘IN’, if the startup progressed to next level it’s important to keep everyone engaged on the conversation/ round. What would make an investor more interested in your pitch deck. Weeks to launch?

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Technical Review Early Stage Cofounder Portfolio 166

YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2020

This process seems effective — but it turns out the non-conscious mental shortcuts we end up using in problem-solving and decision-making are greatly subject to bias, influenced by the worldview we are exposed to in our environment. The future shape of our workplace structures and systems may be uncertain.

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Non-Compete Leadership Employee Community 147

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. Most LPs Don’t Believe That Traditional VCs are Being Squeezed. Frankly, I’ve never believed this argument.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Because you read this blog, you already know you should be conducting a/b testing on your landing pages and website to increase conversions, but did you know the same principles apply to your emails? If they had simply started sending the e-newsletter on Tuesdays without A/B testing the send day they would have missed out on conversions.

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Campaign Email Clickthrough Sales 111

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Disturbing, because many people & organizations want to compete on analytics, but are not doing the right things or adopting the right thinking about analytics. Where Are The Leaks In Your Conversion Funnel? The key to extra-large conversion is tracking your conversion funnel. the conversion). But is it really?

Analytics 113

Analytics Software Review Metadata Campaign 113

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 1, 2019

The conversation screeched to a tense halt. Ellen worked in both traditional and non-traditional positions. She has established a leadership culture that enables women in the transportation industry to build their confidence by proving themselves capable and competent. And the driver inside fumed and sizzled. Two hours?”.

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Global Virginia Wisconsin Leadership 113

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

A non-traditional lender is another option; many small businesses are borrowing from on-line lenders like On Deck Capital Inc. If you need money, one of the best resources available is the U.S. Small Business Administration. The SBA has a variety of loan programs and offers considerable resources to small business startups.

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Small Business SBA Small Business Administration Non-Compete 100

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

What’s a non-emergency medical transportation business? Josh Komenda , CEO of VEYO, suggests that there’s a large population of those who need non-emergency medical transportation, especially for medically frail or elderly people in rural areas. Image via TechCrunch. Many don’t have a driver’s license or access to a vehicle.

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Non-Compete Operations Programming Hiring 92

ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2019

For non-compliant email clients such as Outlook (which doesn’t support GIFs, background images, or videos), you need to appropriate fallback. In the email below from Quip, the hero image adds visualize stimulus without detracting from or competing with the headline: Limitations. Compatibility. More on that later. Audio in emails.

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Email Media Audio Software Review 118

Occam's Razor

MAY 4, 2010

On a serious note… offering your opinion on something, unsupported by any data except "I think", is probably a really poor way to start a conversation with anyone in the Analytics field. If you want to understand the clickstream data for any website you could go to Compete (here's ESPN's data , or this blog's ).

Web 112

Web Non-Compete Analytics SEO 112

Hearpreneur

MAY 31, 2020

. #1- Begin conversations. He started by reaching out to 15 people in his network or individuals he wanted to get to know on a weekly basis — just to simply begin a conversation. I will call an individual if I am already connected to them or begin a LinkedIn conversation with them. 1 + 1 = 3! We are all in this together.

Networking 149

Networking Entrepreneur Social Media Channel 149

ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2019

to be competent, optimizers need a basic understanding of statistics and propensity models. Even if you don’t face any of the experimentation challenges Royston-Webb mentions, propensity modeling can help you: Fill your pipeline; Save time on quantitative conversion research; Explore smarter segmentation options.

Analytics 118

Analytics Non-Compete HTML Conversion 118

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

This blog started from a series of conversations I found myself having over and over again with founders and eventually decided I should just start writing them.It He wants to compete to be the lead drummer in the competitive ensemble and study under Terence, an obsessive instructor who is hell bent on winning competitions for the school.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Its different from selling a product, because it is not part of our regular business practice, is not something that relates to our core competence, and tends not to happen in a repeatable and scalable way. Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Bemoaning that non-technical people are the first to filter resumes is silly because it’s not going to change. To sort facts from folk wisdom, I isolated some features that were universal among resumes and would be easy to spot by technical and non-technical people alike and then ran statistical significance tests on them.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

To my mind, it’s fear of the unknown that holds most of us back and not the thought of whether we’re competent enough or intelligent enough or whatever else we feel is needed to run a business. Or is it about running a non-profit soup kitchen for the unemployed? However, you can also start a corporation or a non-profit company.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 22, 2011

Over the last few weeks I’ve gotten involved in hiring for two startups, a public agency and a non profit. Part of each conversation was getting asked to help them put together a “job spec.”. Now that you have this spec, evaluate each candidate by showing his/her competence in each slice by length. Compare candidates.

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Hiring Non-Compete Search Customer Development 299