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First Impressions Matter: The Importance of Great Visual Design

ConversionXL

Thus, visual appeal can be assessed within 50 ms, suggesting that web designers have about 50 ms to make a good first impression. Users form design opinions even in 17 ms. In fact, according to their study some opinions develop even within 17 ms (though the effect was less pronounced on some design factors).

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The Founder and Investor Trust Problem: It's not what you think.

This is going to be BIG.

Don’t get me wrong—I don’t mean trust in the sense that VCs think founders are just going to get a fake passport and move to Fiji, or that investors are secretly plotting to take over the company. The price negotiation process is pretty straightforward, and once a deal has been agreed upon we move on. That doesn’t mean we trust each other.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I changed the design a few times. The person who owns this blog is Michael Pollack, and he was a web designer and small business fan. He started this blog and grew it, but eventually decided to move on and focus on his design business. There’s some women here for starters, and that was why it was fun. It’s very simple.

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How About You Take The Day Off

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I got sick a couple of weeks before leaving Brisbane for Fiji because I had so much to get done before I left. I then got sick again in Fiji, probably as a result of the stress built up and releasing as I finally started traveling. Tags: Mindset lifestyle design productivity work habits work life balance. Yaro Starak.

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Millennial CEO Disrupts Bottled Water Industry

Hearpreneur

Every premium water was differentiated solely through an exotic source origination story and design. Basically its a Carbon Neutral, Naturally Alkaline Fiji meets Tom’s Shoes with a Red Bull approach to lifestyle branding ;).

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