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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Actually, every one of hose ideas is a good one since they all speak to an underlying problem- that taking off your headphones means you miss your song, or that sudden braking leads to crashes. These ideas are only a quick proposed solution
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Ideas sparking ideas is the whole premise behind IDEO style brain storming. You get a handful of people to start thinking of ideas for whatever problem you want to solve and one idea always inspires more. Crazy ideas are encouraged since th
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Agree. Article quotes Apple as having just 20 designers who come up with the cool products. Article also says they don't do market research. This makes sense- 20 people come up with amazing ideas on their own (easy to reach consensus), and
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
This is brilliant. That's exactly the difference.
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Really? I'd love to see the stats for this. More time on site may just be a reflection of more time on that page, because people spend so much time figuring it out (in which case you'd want to look at the bounce rate, I bet it's high). And
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
"nice lady" has been notified. Will email you, nice bloke from Yelp.
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Thank you so much for the followup. SEO can be hard to learn (beyond the basic checklist google provides) since every expert is just trying to sell you their black box of services. It's enlightening to learn specifically what another site's
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Would you rather work at Twitter (or other fun obsessed office) or 37Signals?
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
I used to hate computers. Living in the east coast made me want to become a landscape architect so that I could spend more time outside. When I moved to California I started getting so much sun that I no longer minded sitting at the compute
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
I'd rather type random characters than "Safer Browsing" for an IE ad. You have to consider the emotional reaction to these ads.
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Mind sharing some of the SEO you did to the site? Thanks
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
How is it then that Justin Bieber is the most popular thing on YouTube?
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Or Instapaper. I can't read on most news sites anymore for all the crap they put on there.
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Apparently not, they were all bought by 2007: http://dyyo.com/analysis_remaining.php
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Typography for Lawyers(typographyforlawyers.com)
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Declaring something to be dead must be a sure fire way to get people to read your article. Here are some others: http://www.copyblogger.com/10-sure-fire-headline-formulas-th...
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
I think you can outsource much more than accounting as a startup: graphic design to 99designs, html/css to CSS Ninjas javascript to oDesk coders. HOWEVER, you should be able to edit your html/css/javascript in house, so you should know how
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Of course you always start with a business model! But then you find out that it doesn't work (customers don't need your product, or are not wiling to pay for it, or you simply can't make money). So you have to switch business models and try
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Steve Blank is a writer and knows that wrapping his point in a story makes it more enticing to read. And I agree that this post has less to do with job titles, than hiring people who have the right kind of experience. Having worked in big c
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
It's no wonder that you hear "I HATE PayPal" from half the people who hear the company's name. Here's a company with an arguably good product that's going up in flames because of their terrible support.
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Support makes such a difference. I just got locked out from my PayPal account and there's no way to get it back without talking to someone on Monday (that's 48 hours away). Seriously, it's a huge company and they can't run a call center on
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Just had a look at your site, and michael is right that A/B testing will help. So will user testing: just showing the page to a bunch of friends to see what they get and don't get. From looking at your page, I have a suggestion you might co