“Successful entrepreneurs recommend reading this article about the persuasion techniques companies use to drive engagement.” Scratch that, how’s Read More
Mass Persuasion
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Why too many startups (er) suck
This is a guest post by my Startup Owner’s Manual co-author Bob Dorf. While statistics are weak on startup success rates, Read More
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The Lean LaunchPad Online
You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad class taught atStanford, Berkeley, Columbia, Caltech and for the National Science Read More
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Getting Your Product Into the Habit Zone
As the web becomes an increasingly crowded place, users are desperate for solutions to sort through the online Read More
At Vator’s first Spark event, the focus was on gamification. Here’s the video of the panel: “How startups Read More
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Make your users do the work
The belief that products should always be as easy to use as possible is a sacred cow of Read More
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The art of manipulation
Let’s admit it, we in the consumer Web industry are in the manipulation business. We build products meant Read More
Right now, someone is tinkering with a billion dollar secret — they just don’t know it yet. “What Read More
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Never take your eyes off this hacker metric
If you’re like me, you’ve had enough of the Facebook IPO story. For tech entrepreneurs struggling to build stuff, the Read More
I could build Instagram in a week. How many times have you heard someone say “I could build Read More
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Spotting the next Facebook
Facebook will sell shares Friday in one of the biggest tech IPOs in history. New investors will gobble up Read More
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Spotting the Next Facebook
Today Facebook will sell shares in one of the biggest tech IPOs in history. New investors will gobble up the Read More
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Billion-dollar mind trick; How Instagram hooked users
Yin asked not to be identified by her real name. A young addict in her mid-twenties, she lives Read More
Filetrek, which recently raised $10 million in funding earlier this year, recently pivoted to enter the market for Read More
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Start-ups need teams that can run fast, and change
Scott Button became a first-time entrepreneur when he founded Unruly in 2006. He’s since done a pretty good Read More