On Episode 62 of The Edge of Innovation, we’re talking with entrepreneur Greg Arnette, about how growing up in technology influenced his life.
Tag: startup
Top 5 Tools for Naming Your Startup
So you’ve got a great idea for a business. You’re sure it’s the next big thing, and you’re ready to start bringing it to life. But first you need a name. If you were Evan Williams, you’d already have come up with a name like Odeo or Twitter. Instead, you’ve had 100 name ideas and they were all terrible. Now you’re looking for some outside help. Naming your startup is hard, but as it happens, there are some useful tools out there that can help you find the brand that’ll make you famous. Here’s a look at five of the best (plus a few bonus tools that didn’t quite make the cut). Visual Thesaurus The first step in …
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Your high IQ Will Kill Your Startup
This article was originally published on March 4, 2010 at Max Klein’s blog.
It has since fallen off the Internet and into the great 404 void. I am republishing it here because it is one of the very few blog posts that I’ve read in my lifetime that have stuck with me. If the original comes back online, please kindly comment below and I’ll remove this copy from my blog. In 2004 I was in Brazil, walking down the hill in Lapa to get some lunch. I was with a friend who I had met in the hostel I was staying – his name was Ofer. We were having a discussion about intelligence, and what role it plays in success. Then out of the side of the road…
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How Did LeadPages go From 0 to 15,000 Customers in 12 Months?
Launched in January 2013, LeadPages has gained over 16,000 paying customers. Hitting a $3.5 million run rate the first nine months after launching, they are growing at about 20% month-over-month (compound growth). The tips and tactics Tim Paige, Conversion Educator at LeadPages, shares in this webinar are based on billions of data points and thousands of split tests. LeadPages processes about 3 million opt-ins per month and about 15 million page views per month. They store billions of data points. But how did LeadPages go from 0 to 15,000 customers in 12 months? In the webinar, Paige shares the following tips: Create a Lot of Opt-in Opportunities (Webinars, Free Reports, Live Demos, etc.) When LeadPages was created, Paige said the founders didn’t start by building a product. Instead, …
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How Did LeadPages go From 0 to 15,000 Customers in 12 Months?
Meet Sher.ly, the ambitious ‘cloud’ startup that plans to destroy sync
With two cofounders, three developers, and less than $1 million in seed funding, Sher.ly intends to bypass one of the most frustrating, ubiquitous parts of cloud storage: syncing. To accomplish that goal, Sher.ly has abandoned the cloud altogether. It sounds backwards for a cloud startup, but Sher.ly is not just local storage, explained Sher.ly chief Blazej Marciniak. The startup makes software that links devices together, enabling access to all of your files from any connected device without actually moving your data anywhere. Syncing sucks, said Marciniak in a conversation with VentureBeat. 90% of sync data is a waste of traffic and bandwidth, because you move around data you don’t really need – so we came up with a …
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Meet Sher.ly, the ambitious ‘cloud’ startup that plans to destroy sync