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5 Principles of Persuasive Web Design

ConversionXL

Persuasive design in action. Defaults are design, too. Key lesson: people do not mess with defaults (unless they’re designers or developers)! That being said, there are lots of opportunities with designing for default. 5 key principles of persuasive web design. Are people in Denmark selfish?

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Shark Tank Season 4 week 4 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Week three’s breakdown covered topics like how hard momentum is to turn around, and how participating preferred stock works. They won a design award at a trade show, but have no revenue and no orders. I’ve been writing up reviews of this season’s Shark Tank pitches from a silicon valley VCs perspective.

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

thinkspace.com

I was originally hired as a contractor, developing a SaaS app from scratch, including DB design and coding. This is an excellent supplement that many entrepreneurs could use to design compensation plans that make sence. Animikh Sen. was that App ever created? PHP Veteran. Your last paragraph actually describes a situation I am in.

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Sustainable startup growth and venture capital

The Equity Kicker

We need a new disruptive capitalism that is designed for a much more mature internet market, one that can bring founders, investors, and employees together. I would summarise that as getting the fundamentals right – from great product, through unit economics to stakeholder alignment.

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Convertible Note Seed Financings (But Were Afraid To Ask) – Part 1

Scott Edward Walker

They are also typically granted certain additional economic rights (like Series A investors), such as pro-rata rights and a liquidation preference. In fact, in the Fenwick Survey , 9% of the preferred stock seed financings included a participating preferred liquidation preference (which is not founder friendly).

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4 Things That Work More Often Than Not For Mobile Landing Pages

ConversionXL

Awhile back, this guest post was published on ConversionXL discussing how responsive design was the solution to mobile conversions. The article cited multiple case studies where switching to a responsive design boosted conversion rates by as high as 400%. The All-Important Fact Marketers Are Missing With Mobile. It is more like A to Z.

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What is an employee retention or M&A carveout plan?

Startup Company Lawyer

Due to aggregate liquidation preferences that may exceed the acquisition price in an M&A deal, common stock may be rendered worthless. If you can’t figure this out yourself, you should probably build a liquidation preference spreadsheet to model how liquidation preferences work depending on M&A transaction value.