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Managing user expectations in responsive design

Users might not be ready to make the shift from mobile-specific sites to fully responsive sites. Here's how we can help them. ...

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Written by Rian van der Merwe

User experience design & strategy at @flow_sa. Contributor t

The Massive Guide to Getting Massive Traffic

Growing a blog takes time. It takes consistent sharing of great content for months and months on end. Usually it takes most people about two years to get big. This means that your growth is slow and steady as your traffic coming to your site is slow and steady. While that strategy will work... it's always nice to get a huge jump in traffic every once in awhile. Would you like to know how to do th ...

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Written by Neil Patel

I'm Kind of a Big Deal

The Dangerous Seduction of the Lifetime Value (LTV) Formula

Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer. This concept, which appears on the surface to be quite benign, is typically used to compare the costs of acquiring customers. ...

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Written by Bill Gurley

VC @Benchmark (investor @Twitter), blog: AboveTheCrowd, BOD

How to build a bulletproof system so your startup runs itself

A common motivation for entrepreneurship is the craving for freedom that is supposed to come with being your own boss. Unfortunately, even the most talented people with the most marketable ideas often wind up being slaves to their new businesses instead. If you're working for the business instead of the business working for you, you desperately need a system. ...

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Written by Nick Reese

Builder of Systems. Strategic Thinker and Change Maker. Cofo

Startup Lessons #1 - Sorry, But You'll Have To Quit Your Day Job

Trying to build a company during nights and weekends could happen, but it's going to happen at a snails pace compared to anyone doing it full time. Look at all the amazing companies that are getting funding right now and you'll notice that 99.9% of them are run by people doing it full time. There are a few reasons I think this is important: ...

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Written by Daina and Morgan

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