As the Boulder Startup Community evolved, I started to become inundated with people who wanted to get involved. Some of these were locals while others where people looking to move to Boulder, or who had recently moved here. Some where people known to me while others were new…
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Technology keeps us constantly stimulated. What do we lose when we no longer have nothing to do?
Apple is famous for not engaging in the focus-grouping that defines most business product and marketing strategy. Which is partly why Apples products and advertising are so insanely great. They have the courage of their own convictions, instead of the opinions of everyone else’s…
Mastering the art of public speaking has nothing to do with your personality, with overcoming shyness or learning to act confident. It's a technical skill that nearly anyone can acquire — just like cooking.
Using Google’s new “Google Experiments” for A/B testing confirmed a hypothesis that a landing page with a preview image will have a higher conversion rate than a landing page without the preview image. Here’s how you can conduct your own test.
At some point during your first year as a human being, the adults throw a real curveball at you. They expect you to start understanding what right and wrong mean. These lessons come in the form of mysterious reactions that follow certain things you do. After you pull all the…
Pliny the Elder inspires beer hunters around the world to search for just one bottle.
Here are 14 persuasive writing techniques that will make your website appeal to visitors and increase your conversion rates.
These are psychological theories about belief.
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor E. Frankl, neuroscientist, psychiatrist, concentration camp survivor Your life is defined by two things…
After feeling belittled, I journey into the heart of bragging and discover 17 modes of showing off.
The “Smartest Person in the Room” Issue, Its Importance in Business & Especially in Startups As a startup founder or company CEO, you hear all the time, “You want to hire people ‘smarter than you’”, and you also hear, “Don’t be the smartest person in the room.” But what does…
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Research shows that the brain finds pleasure in the pursuit of inexpensive things, and high-street chains and online retailers sites alike are cashing in.
Inversion is a powerful mental model to improve your thinking because it helps you identify and remove obstacles to success. Most of us tend to think one way about a problem: forward. Inversion allows us to flip the problem around and think backward.
Reprint: R1405G Even in an age of relentless self-promotion, some extremely capable professionals prefer to avoid the spotlight. “Invisibles” work in fields ranging from engineering to interpreting to perfumery, but they have three things in common: They are ambivalent about…
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Here’s why hiring managers say they often value emotional intelligence more highly than IQ.
"The success of your startup is determined before you ship a single line of code." Okay, you’re right, Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese war general and author
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Prospect theory argues that if given the option, people prefer more certain gains rather than the prospect of larger gains with more risk.
Don't set goals. Passion is bullshit. Mediocre skills are valuable. These are just a few of the unexpected truths you'll discover in Scott Adams' new book. Here are 10 more takeaways.
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One thing leads to another and before you know it, you've got a routine.
Larry Page, CEO of Alphabet (the company formerly known as Google), has a quirky way of deciding which companies he likes. It’s called “The Toothbrush Test.” According to the New York Times, when Page looks at a potential company to acquire
Why some people are constantly approached by friendly nearbys whereas others might as well be invisible
Building trust and putting online shoppers at ease are important parts of ecommerce marketing and merchandising, since very few folks will hand over
Face it; you’re hooked. It’s your uncontrollable urge to check for email notifications on your phone. It’s your compulsion to visit Facebook or Twitter for just a few minutes, but somehow find yourself still scrolling after an hour. It’s the fact that if I recommended a book to…
We all know that leaders need vision and energy, but after an exhaustive review of the most influential theories on leadership–as well as workshops with thousands of leaders and aspiring leaders–the authors learned that great leaders also share four unexpected qualities. The…
New research indicates that consumers are catching on and may be annoyed by certain nudges, potentially limiting their effectiveness.
The popular idea that avoiding losses is a bigger motivator than achieving gains is not supported by the evidence
Although the default answer to almost every question, request or suggestion is a disheartening ‘non’, a ‘oui’ is often hiding in the context of what is being said.
Here are the 16 human needs as defined by professor Steven Reiss.
Note Scott Hanselman (me): I had been meaning to write up my productivity tips ...
Kids are obsessed with YouTube unboxing videos. The toy industry is taking notice.
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Your product can’t suck. That’s a given. But it’s also not enough to be a good product that doesn’t hook your customer and connect to their pain points.
The Tipping Point summary shows you why ideas spread like viruses, which 3 kinds of people are responsible for it & why no bad idea will ever spread.
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Nobody likes to be disrespected. And everyone loves getting respect. But it can be tricky. Here are the scientific secrets of how to get respect.
It’s not your job to carry the ball, but to run interference for those who do.
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