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901.
by aresant 13y ago
Slide 14 & 15 were instructive, brilliant way of connecting the dots. How specifically are you segmenting out new users by Twitter follower / Klout score and then firing actions to those segments?
902.
by aresant 13y ago
The most interesting subtext to this entire story to me is that Jony Ive, under Jobs, was a hardware designer. In Job's biography we see that Ive's "design studio has foam cutting and printing machines, and the windows are tinted." (1) - ha
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by aresant 13y ago
I'd love to see this data plotted vs the average Exchange Trade Volume over past 180 days: http://blockchain.info/charts/trade-volume?timespan=180days&... If you correct for that HUGE spike to 1250k in the CB graph it looks like CB is alm
904.
by aresant 14y ago
"players have so far paid to remove nearly 14 million cubelets, while adding an extra 4.7 million." Wow I almost spit out my tea when reading that while wrongly assuming each block was $0.99 Then I followed the link in page and discovered t
905.
by aresant 14y ago
Hacker (n) "An enthusiastic and skillful computer programmer or user." Ok, computer user then. Steve Jobs built Apple 1.0 that popularized desktop computing & publishing. Then on the side he bought a failing business, and turned it into
906.
by aresant 14y ago
Excellent post and breakdown, especially, of the process and tools - thanks for sharing. Wondered about this: "We had some really great luck where the bootstrap guys tweeted about Jetstrap and @mdo even mentioned us in a really great blog p
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Dustforce sales figures(hitboxteam.com)
1 points by aresant 14y ago|0 comments
908.
by aresant 14y ago
"True, I wouldn't raise huge sums of money or break any records . . ." Haha. Come on. I'd wager that MI 3 would far and away be the #1 all time Kickstarter fund raise, starting with my money: "After its release on Steam, the Special Edition
909.
by aresant 14y ago
I want to underline one change they made that in my experience makes a huge impact: GET RID OF THE HEADER / LOGO This is one of the basic steps that I've seen drive conversion almost every time be it ecommerce checkout / lead gen / email /
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by aresant 14y ago
From the original study: "Many of the harms of drugs are affected by their availability and legal status, which varies across countries, so our results are not necessarily applicable to countries with very different legal and cultural attit
911.
by aresant 14y ago
This is a brilliant breakdown especially on the sitespeed part (Which I constantly hammer from a CRO perspective too). I'd love to see an expansion of that section in particular.
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How We Increased Search Traffic by 22% in 3 Weeks(blog.mythly.com)
16 points by aresant 14y ago|3 comments
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by aresant 14y ago
http://www.OutConvert.com
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by aresant 14y ago
From the Author's bio: "I'm just this guy who used to enjoy tech, now I would rather build bicycles. I still work in the tech industry, for the money, but I no longer call myself a "technologist"." So points well made that a guy with childr
915.
by aresant 14y ago
On the blog post announcing this and the actual landing page ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle ) I was surprised not to see an actual example of the button (or implementation on their own blog). I found one a few clicks in: http://ww
916.
by aresant 14y ago
"unless you’re a celebrity, publishers do nothing that you can’t do on your own just as well or better for a fraction of the cost." Man that is a powerful takeaway for authors. I'll add a few points: (1) I learned you can buy your way onto
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Tesla Delays Model X Until Late 2014(wired.com)
3 points by aresant 14y ago|0 comments
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Garry's Mod made $22 million, Facepunch working on new PC game(joystiq.com)
2 points by aresant 14y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 14y ago
ROKU and most of the other serious TV device players have fully functional smartphone remote apps: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/roku/id482066631?mt=8
920.
by aresant 14y ago
Very cool find! But wow From an advertising standpoint that brochure made me cringe. You can tell neither sides heart is in it - the cartoons are stiff and the corporate copy interspersed feels so forced and out of place - ouch. The end pro
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Why aren’t Apple’s error messages written by marketers?(conversionvoodoo.com)
2 points by aresant 14y ago|1 comments
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‘House Of Cards’ Makes Netflix Subscribers More Loyal: Survey(deadline.com)
4 points by aresant 14y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 14y ago
I just checked out GoPago vs. Square's Register page ( https://squareup.com/register or https://squareup.com/register/hardware/ ) - GoPago is beautiful and crisp, but Square does a better job getting instant engagement (free card reader o
924.
by aresant 14y ago
Musk is filtering the NYT's response when he says: "the Public Editor agreed that John Broder had “problems with precision and judgment," “took casual and imprecise notes” and made “few conclusions that are unassailable.”" Let me try to che
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by aresant 14y ago
I am surprised that the FTC's position on this issue is a footnote of the original article and the HN discussion. From FTC Assistant Deputy Rich Cleland: "a disclosure must be made when a blogger is recommending something and using an affil
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by aresant 14y ago
"Tesla Motors initially expected to sell at least 5,000 units in 2012 and set a sales target of 20,000." (1) As of January 2013's run rate, it takes GM 72 hours to sell that many cars. (2) How about a comparable luxury target? MB did 305,07
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by aresant 14y ago
"Then there is the $88 million crash pad at 15 Central Park West, bought last year by a trust linked to Ekaterina Rybolovleva, then 22 years old." Can somebody send me the AirBNB link to that one please?
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by aresant 14y ago
When I was in my early 20s I came across a charity auction for "Lunch with Woz". As a "top ramen entrepreneur" at the time, I had no chance of winning but I contacted Woz's assistant via the website. I said if there's any chance, anytime &#
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Lots of Naked People(jamesaltucher.com)
5 points by aresant 14y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 14y ago
Totally agree. As an amazon prime user Amazon is effectively already a monopoly in my home. Barring a "same day" competitor achieving the same scale it's hard to see how retail survives in the future as amazon continues to increase stock, d

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