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You can not buy ideas or talent
When it comes to acquisitions, there are only two things worth buying: products and customers. When you buy either, you’re buying a solid stream of revenue. All you have to do is not fuck it up. That’s harder than you think, but the good news is that there is room for error. Fuck it up …
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IE9 will support VP8 and H.264 video
Get to know Windows 11, the Windows that brings you closer to what you love.News and features for people who use and are interested in Windows, including announcements from Microsoft and its partners.Guidance to help developers create products and se
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Rules for Bootstrapped Web App Startups
Allan lists 10 things that every startup should value.
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Startup Marketing Advice from Balsamiq Studios
News and announcements from your friends at Balsamiq.
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Google Instant, behind the scenes
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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How Steve Jobs pitches a startup
Watch the master pitch man, Steve Jobs, analyze the market for NeXT workstations in Part 1 of his Chalk Talk. He explains: “Who is our target customer? Why are they selecting our products ove…
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Stack Overflow results now included in MSDN Search
MSDN is Microsoft's mega huge developer information portal, and we're happy to announce that starting today, Stack Overflow search results will be incorporated into the results when you search for something on MSDN. That lets you see official Microsoft developer documentation alongside the community conversations that…
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How we reduced chargebacks by 30% (as a percentage of sales)
We’ve never had a lot of chargebacks (a chargeback is when a customer calls their credit card company to dispute a charge they don’t recognize), but last year we made a simple change that reduced our chargebacks by 30% as a percentage of sales. I can’t be certain the reduction …
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Signups increased by 60% after actually removing the signup form
Read how Vendio, a SaaS company, used Wingify Testing to optimize their landing page for better usability and increased conversions by 60%
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Mibbit: One year old, and profitable
Mibbit is a fully featured IRC Client. Allowing you to interact realtime with your friends. Chat, play games, colaborate on projects together and more.
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Matt Mullenweg's 12 Rules to Move from 1 User to 100k
Printer-Friendly Flyer One-Page Flyer (PDF) for your bulletin board. (Requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader .)
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Google admitting defeat in 'direct to consumer' model phone sales
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Why Enterprise Software Sucks
Khoi, who’s consistently one of the best writers on the web, recently took a swipe at enterprise software. Who can blame him? We agree. If you work at a big company and you’ve ever had to do something that should be simple, like file an expense report, make changes to your salary withholdi…