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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
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This is Part 3 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches .
Of hundreds of startup pitches at Capital Factory , almost none had unearthed 10 people willing to say, "If you build this product, I'll give you $X."
Meditate on this: Hundreds of people ready to quit their day jobs, burn up savings, risk personal reputation, toil 70 hours per week, absorb as much stress as havin...
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
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2010.06.21 15:30.26
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Your A/B tests are trapped in a cesspool when they should be in the sewer.
Do you really care why A/B testing is analogous to unwanted liquids? Not yet, so I'd better get right to the point.
On the rare occasion that it rains in Austin we get these deep puddles in the backyard. Of course it would be better if the water would flow out into the street and into the sewer, but that's not how ...
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When planning and designing Twenty Ten , the new default theme in WordPress 3.0 , we knew that the header would be a really prominent feature, a focal point, and wanted some good defaults to excite people about the theme. Some of the most popular themes on WP.com like Misty Look, Chaotic Soul, Ocean Mist, and Cutline all feature prominent photo headers.
It can be a pain to find appropriately l...
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I first heard David Sedaris during his long-ago "This American Life" days and before, when his quavery delivery of stories of life on the edge rang out like nothing else on the radio. It might be going too far to say "This American Life " wouldn't be the radio show it is without David Sedaris , and Sedaris wouldn't be the author he is without "This American Life&...
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
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2010.05.03 15:30.37
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It's time to retire the following phrases. They should no longer be used, ever, in any context except derisive mocking:
Fast and easy
Putting customers first
The Holy Grail of
The leading provider of
Legendary customer support
Also eschew these words, as devoid of meaning as a yogi's mantra and as useless as a simile that doesn't contribute new information:
Authentic
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ATMA Escape into Life continually welcomes new writers onto our team. In this issue, you'll find an eloquent essay on Gauguin by Linnea West, whose art blog, Art Ravels, is a favorite among arts writers. You'll also find contributions from Lou Freshwater, somewhat of a haiku expert, and the German writer, Klaus-Dieter Knoll. This issue we also introduce a new segment of Escape into Life,...
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With her new novel, So Much for That , Lionel Shriver strengthens her already credible claim to the title of best living American writer. This won’t surprise her readers in the UK and much of Europe. In many countries, she is now regarded as one of our most important novelists. Americans, however, have been slower to find her. That’s okay. We were the same way with Faulkner and P...
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
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2010.03.29 16:00.55
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They say "statistics lie," but they don't. People do.
Well, that's a little harsh. Sure some people intentionally skew numbers and selectively pull data, but most folks misinterpret data by accident.
Why do you care if you're not a scientist? Because you collect data about your business all the time — web traffic, revenue sources, expenses, customer behavior — and make decisions based o...
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
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2010.03.22 09:30.18
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It's easy to be taken in by the idea of the Butterfly Effect : That a butterfly gently flapping its wings in the jungles of Madagascar can indirectly cause a Typhoon off the coast of Jakarta.
Or, updating for modern-day relevancy, Naomi Dunford pounds a curse word into a Wordpress and Brian Clark makes $172. Or Dave McClure releases a silent-but-deadly outside a Menlo Park Starbucks and...
Faith Georgia I am happy to present to you an Escape into Life double-issue filled with all sorts of goodies. This month Simon Karter joined the team as a fiction writer. In this issue, you'll read one of his short stories and there are more to come in future issues. We also have two outstanding art essays, one by Tony Thomas on the history of the art museum, and the other by David Maclagan, ...
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Genre, genre, genre, whole days go by when I am asked of nothing else, especially those moronic questions about horror that should have been swept out of civilized discourse at least thirty years ago: Tell us now, if you can, for we are really terribly curious about this, why is it, do you think, that reasonable people should pay good money to be, well, frightened? What, you know, can the a...
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eX de Medici, Blue (Bower/Bauer) 1998-2000 In addition to the six new artists we feature daily, one of my goals has been to incorporate multimedia onto Escape into Life. Now you'll find art videos, movie trailers (relating to the arts), and short films. We try to keep it interesting. One such "find" is the brilliant interview with Francis Bacon. This issue is exceptional, if only for ...
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A recent Pew survey revealed that the popularity of blogging among teens and young adults has declined dramatically from 28 percent to 14 percent from 2006 to 2009. While this wasn’t an exhaustive scientific study, it does reveal a trend that clearly shows that blogging is losing its luster with today’s younger generation. There are many factors that could have contributed to this drastic declin...
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NextNature.net - Exploring the Nature caused by Pe
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2010.03.01 13:26.58
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My first razor I got when I was fifteen. It consisted of two blades on a simple metal stick and I remember it gave me a really close and comfortable shave. In the twenty years that have passed since my first shave, I’ve used nine different models of razors. This morning I shaved myself with the Gillette Fusion Power Phantom , a rather heavy, yet ergonomically designed battery-powered razor that l...
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Pierre Bonnard, The French Window (Morning at Le Cannet) 1932 We've decided to publish new content to Escape into Life on an ongoing basis. This way you should be able to check the site every day or so and always see new poetry, essays or reviews. In addition we publish 6 new artists a day to Escape into Life, which you can always find on our Artist Watch page. We have another marvelous ...
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kiri:
"will create itself from nothing"
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Hawking: God Didn't Create the Universe | LiveScience Etc.
izzoken:
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Peter Balla - personal homepage - Tanulmányi segédanyagok - Study material - Tudományos dolgozat készítése
Gyula:
Creative surprise of the week for me :) My favorite: 'piss'
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Sport Géza - Futball - Megfejtették a Roberto Carlos-gól titkát
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Hiába, a képernyőképesség nem minden. :)
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Többször belevizeltek a liftbe az MTV új székházában