ANALYZE YOUR A/B TEST RESULTS
The best way to determine what works best for your site is to carry out an A/B test for your landing pages. Check out this A/B significant test calculator.
The unpredictable economics of pawn shops
Take the same item to 4 different pawn shops and you might get offers that vary by hundreds of dollars. Here’s why.
Elmore Leonard's rules for writers
Next month, the doyen of hardboiled crime writers is publishing a new book, 10 Rules of Writing. The following is a brief summary of his advice
SeatGeek will calculate how much that ticket is worth | TechCrunch
Have you ever bought sweet tickets for a ballgame, a concert or some other live event, only to find out that you couldn't make it? The internet certainly
The Help Scout Blog: Delight Your Customers
Get tips and advice on delivering exceptional customer service, engaging and delighting your customers, and building a customer-centric company.
Roll Your Own Analytics
How to build a free, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics
The One Conversational Tool That Will Make You Better At Absolutely Everything - Fast Company
Great insight moves your career, organization, or business forward. The problem? Most people are terrible at asking questions. Learn from the pros how to do it right.
When Freemium Fails
A growing number of new businesses are following in the footsteps of successful companies such as Dropbox and Skype, by giving away their products and services free to build a customer base. But for some, that 'freemium' strategy is turning out to be costly.
Full Stack Music: 1 Trillion Streams, 200 Million Tickets | TechCrunch
At present, there are three distinct music industries: radio, on-demand music, and concert ticketing. However, we are starting to enter a new phase, where these industries will converge and produce one integrated experience for artists and fans. I’ve taken to calling this full…
Q: What Makes a Product Attract Early Adopters? - SKMurphy, Inc.
This is an edited version of a recent online conversation I had with a team of bootstrappers about how to make their product attract early adopters.
13 Platforms for Shoppable Video
Video is increasingly impacting ecommerce. Consumers use it for purchase decisions. Influencers live-stream product endorsements. And brands deploy video for engagement and product offerings. Here is a list of platforms for shoppable video.
16 Rules for Effective Decision-Making | The Leading Blog: A Leadership Blog
Leadership Now is a leading source for leadership development and analysis. We believe that anyone can make a difference by leading from where they are.
The 9 Habits of Ultra-Fast Iterations
One sector has an unfair number of elite product minds. These 9 habits are their underlying behaviors that result in product success.
Strategy Letter V
When I was in college I took two intro economics courses: macroeconomics and microeconomics. Macro was full of theories like “low unemployment causes inflation” that never quite stood u…
The Dark Science of Pop Music
Record companies are tracking download and search data to predict which new songs will be hits. This has been good for business—but is it bad for music?
Deep Dive: Payments
Ninety percent of Americans have used a credit card, but far fewer understand the underlying systems enabling their payments. So let’s dive…
The Best SaaS Landing page examples I’ve seen (+ their secrets for conversion)
SaaS Landing page inspiration is usually "pretty" but not conversion/result driven so in this article, I compiled the best SaaS Landing pages examples I've seen and broke-down their secrets for conversions!
Evidence Based Scheduling
Software developers don’t really like to make schedules. Usually, they try to get away without one. “It’ll be done when it’s done!” they say, expecting that such a brave, funny zinger will reduce t…
The Future of Digital Products is in Storytelling.
Design Musings #1
How to Market Taboo Products
Tips from successful campaigns promoting everything from shapewear to prostate health.
It Costs $2.50 to Make Lipstick — Here’s Why You’re Charged So Much More
This is not a matter of "you get what you pay for."
A Simple Way to Improve the Pro-Con List to Make Better Decisions
Seymour Schulich offers a meaningful improvement to the simple pro-and-con list that many of us have used to make decisions.
Every Company Is Up For Disruption, So Keep Your Products Simple | TechCrunch
Editor's note: Victor Belfor is the vice president of business development at Influitive. He recently started angel investing and mentoring at 500 startups. As products mature, companies continue to compete in heated battles with their competitors by adding more features and…
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Forrester is a leading global market research company that helps organizations exceed customer demands and excel with technology. Learn how Forrester can help.
19 Tactics to Solve the Chicken-or-Egg Problem and Grow Your Marketplace
An inside look at 19 tactics top marketplaces have used to solve the chicken-or-egg problem and kickstart growth.
Tidal and the Future of Music
Predicting success and failure is about understanding who has leverage. In the case of music, the winners will be the labels, not the artist. But perhaps there is hope for tomorrow
How To Structure A Marketplace | TechCrunch
Editor's Note: The following is a guest post by Simon Rothman of Greylock Partners. Rothman is particularly passionate about Marketplace technology (Etsy, Kickstarter, Airbnb, etc) and how to garner success in that category. Marketplaces are endemic to the consumer web: Largely…
How We Redesigned Our Product in Less Than a Week
The 6-step process is an adapted version of the process Google Ventures taught us. It's applicable whether you’re a startup or a Fortune 500 company.
The Difference Between Good And Bad Organizations
"In a poor organization ... people spend much of their time fighting organizational boundaries, infighting, and broken processes."
Fail Faster at Habits - zen habits
By Leo Babauta There are two extremely common obstacles that get in the way of people succeeding at habit change: Messing up on the habit and then quitting. Not starting because the habit change seems to hard or daunting. Have you faced these problems? The answer is almost…
How To Design Products For People Making $2 A Day - Fast Company
Proximity Designs is a for-profit design company whose goal is to create products cheap enough--and good enough--that they can be bought by poor farmers, instead of just giving them aid.
A Developer’s Guide To SEO
Developers don’t do SEO. They make sure sites are SEO-ready. That means developers hold the key to SEO. It’s true. If you’re a developer and you’re r
Repair is as important as innovation
Maintenance lacks the glamour of innovation—and is harder to measure
Getting your reading history out of Pocket using Python | by Alex D'Ambra |
I’ve been using Pocket for many years to collate all the articles, blog posts, recipes, etcI’ve found online. I decided it would be…
A new vulnerability in Intel and AMD CPUs lets hackers steal encryption keys
Hertzbleed attack targets power-conservation feature found on virtually all modern CPUs.
Web Design Done Well: Delightful Data Visualization Examples
All the data in the world won’t do anyone any good if we can’t make sense of it. Or better yet, make it sing. Here are some stunning examples of data visualization in the wild, and some pointers on how to start making your own.
Multi-Relevance Ranking Model for Similar Item Recommendation
Buyers reveal a whole range of behaviors and interests when they browse our pages, so we decided to incorporate these additional purchase intent signals into our machine learning model to improve the relevance of our recommended items.
HPC-oriented Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
HPC-oriented Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know · GitHub
Use OKRs to Set Goals for Teams, Not Individuals
A popular goal-setting framework, Objectives and key results (or OKRs) are an effective method for planning and measuring success on a team level. They fall short, however, when companies attempt to apply them to individual contributors. Setting individual OKRs generally leads…
Stranger Things: A Reading List of Unsolved Mysteries
Tales of odd phenomena stoke our imagination even as they tease us.
Recipe Cuisine Classification
BERT Transformer & Food-Drug Negative Interactions
Erriyon Knighton May Soon Be Faster Than Usain Bolt Ever Was
Erriyon Knighton, just out of high school, has already lowered Bolt’s world junior record in the 200 meters. “It’s almost like he’s a pogo stick,” Knighton’s coach said.
Hotjar: Website Heatmaps & Behavior Analytics Tools
The next best thing to sitting beside someone browsing your site. See where they click, ask what they think, and learn why they drop off. Get started for free.
How to Build an Image-Captioning Model in Pytorch
A detailed step-by-step explanation of how to build an image-captioning model in Pytorch
PCI Express 7.0 standard provides eight times the bandwidth of today’s conn
PCI-SIG has drafted the PCIe 7.0 spec and aims to finalize it in 2025.
Hacker News
Educational material to learn about Goggles and how to create your own.
A Guide to Python's Secret Superpower: Magic Methods
Python has a secret superpower with a similarly stupendous name: Magic Methods. These methods can...
Animal magic: why intelligence isn’t just for humans
Meet the footballing bees, optimistic pigs and alien-like octopuses that are shaking up how we think about minds
“Don’t Mock What You Don’t Own” in 5 Minutes
A common issue when writing tests for real-world software is how to deal with third-party dependencies. Let’s examine an old, but counter-intuitive principle.
Complete Step-by-step Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm from Scratch
And its implementation for solving a nonlinear control theory problem