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by franze 6y ago
There is no way that anybody would see /amp as improving the user experience of the internet as a whole other than an "product management by KPI" dumbed down organization.
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by franze 6y ago
hi, for the Freelancer Meetup Vienna (Austria) I gave a talk about that topic. Later turned it into an article. https://medium.com/@franz.enzenhofer/positioning-for-freelan... (Medium non-paywall link). Feedback very w
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by franze 6y ago
Yeah, that's the second exception in the article. RCLV - a real customer lifetime value to calculate your other costs against. But doing internet stuff since 1998 and startups since 2008 I have yet to encounter a LTV that is not full
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by franze 6y ago
I wrote about it here https://medium.com/@franz.enzenhofer/about-targeted-list-lan... and played around with the model since then a lot. As long as a company does not have organic growth. Meaning Referral (existing cus
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by franze 6y ago
Honestly, sucks for a lot of people. But an organization might be better off if they cut the workforce if " effective work needed in the future" < "work that can be done by workforce". Work tends to always fill the av
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Targeted List Landingpage Hashes(medium.com)
1 points by franze 6y ago|0 comments
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by franze 6y ago
Phone & Face2Face Everybody wants to sell them something, and they have very, very slim margins. So they ignore most of it. Have a good pitch ready. Don't expect that they have low-level access or even content access to their sites
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by franze 6y ago
When I was traveling south America start of the 2010s, fake websites showed up for every single Colombian hotel on Google. %hotelname%.co Which all we're hosted by different companies wanting to sell you a hotel stay in a random hotel
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by franze 6y ago
i am consulting a lot of aggregators, and we coose to interpret sometimes as this, sometimes in the other scenario. the way i interpret the spec, it is not defined behaviour.
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by franze 6y ago
here the problem comes in, as people write User-agent: googlebot User-agent: bing #behaved-badly User-agent: yandex Disallow: / if # removes everythin afer the #, then it would be User-agent: googlebot User-agent:
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by franze 6y ago
>How can a person excel at the technologies required by these firms from my fintech experience with the financial departments there ... excel in Excel. it's a whole programming-parallel-world
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by franze 6y ago
I coded a few robots.txt parsers i.e.: (these are just the ones i cared to publish) https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/simple-functional-robots-... https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/robotstxt a
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by franze 6y ago
Idea came after I asked in a startup forum "have you ever sent your passport via email?" Which was 99% positive. Sending passports via email is just not a good idea.
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by franze 6y ago
https://www.securrr.app A secure URL shortener for sharing passport, Id, credit card pics and scans. Complete with client side encryption, censoring tool, gdpr compliant. Stack is gatsby, react and some Ruby. 1 month until launc
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by franze 6y ago
company i am consulting switched from php stack to client side react. killing search traffic and botching evey other metric they had. inlcuding revenue. there is a german word for this fallacy: “Technologieglaeubigkeit”: the belief that wi
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Things I learned as VP Growth at a hypergrowth Fintech in London(blog.usejournal.com)
2 points by franze 6y ago|0 comments
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by franze 6y ago
weak project management then.
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by franze 6y ago
Ok, the late Balmer period.
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by franze 6y ago
It's anecdotal. The question behind it is: "How does such obvious broken features like ’featured snippets for phone number searches' make it into production?" Obviously there are working lots of very clever people at Goo
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by franze 6y ago
Last year I had the opportunity to work with some Xooglers. According to their CVs an Linkedin they were with Google for a year or two. All with job titles that trim down to project managers. All very junior. Still, considering that Google
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by franze 6y ago
Still there I.e.: https://www.google.com/search?q=layoffs&rlz=1CDGOYI_enAT855A... on mobile crome, ios device Amp not marked in the news section (1 of 3) 3 times in the organic results, marked with a flash icon. The day
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by franze 6y ago
Spam?
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by franze 6y ago
I worked for a company with a horrible PR/communication department. The CEO was making a clear, precise, sometimes intense statement. Gave it to PR. Then the CEO dealt with other stuff. The weak communication department had meetings af
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by franze 6y ago
I made a simple model using churn, referral, paid ad spend. In any scenario where Churn > Referral -> Ads are a trap. If Churn < Referral -> Ads are a halfway decent accelerator. Challenge is you can not really determine if Chur
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by franze 6y ago
Changing feedback loops has a much higher impact on a system than changing variables.
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Ads are a Trap(medium.com)
2 points by franze 6y ago|0 comments
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Ads Are a Trap(medium.com)
3 points by franze 6y ago|0 comments
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by franze 6y ago
So basically: imprison more people -> cost goes up -> crime does not go down -> imprison more people -> cost goes up -> crime does not go down -> imprison more people ->.... Does not sound too clever in my book. Maybe t
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by franze 6y ago
It's strange that some of my peers did not mind the lockdown at all, some even enjoy it and find it relaxing. I on the other hand completely faltered. I always saw myself as an introvert which rather reads books, codes and figures out
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Elon Musk going to sell all physical possessions(twitter.com)
21 points by franze 6y ago|9 comments

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