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Internet Ads – What works and what doesn’t [Eye Tracking/Usability Study]

January 14, 2010
Internet Ads – What works and what doesn’t [Eye Tracking/Usability Study]

Usbility guru, Jakob Neilsen along with Kara Pernice has launched his book, Eyetracking Web Usability that has findings from eyetracking studies that they conducted by bouncing infrared beams off a person’s retinas and recording head movements with a camera. Interesting findings related to Internet Advertising Participants in the study looked at 52% of ads that contained...
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Two Videos that Every Entrepreneur Should Watch

October 9, 2009

Listen directly from horses' mouth - Mint.com Founder, Aaron on basics of starting a business. Kevin Rose (Digg founder) gets into the depth of product development process and how/what to accomplish.
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Demystifying Branding – Startups, Are you Reading this?

July 1, 2009
Demystifying Branding – Startups, Are you Reading this?

What is a brand? Without getting into a technical explanation, a brand is the perception an individual / community carries about the product/service/company. The...
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Useful Resources on Web Design, Usability

May 20, 2009

Few useful resources for all things usability. Usability Checklist Irrespective of who you are and what your site is all about, you should take a
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5 Useful Resources: How Underdog Break Rules, Investors pay B-plans little heed..and more

May 14, 2009
5 Useful Resources: How Underdog Break Rules, Investors pay B-plans little heed..and more

Why We Spend Coins Faster Than Bills Economists at Haas Berkeley did a series of experimentation (Denomination Effect) that showed people were much more willing to spend the same sum of money if they had smaller denominations instead of one large bill. ..experiment involved Raghubir standing outside a gas station in Omaha. She would have people...
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Useful Resources: Click Measurement Guidelines, Why Google’s Radio Advertising Failed..and more

May 13, 2009

IAB releases Click Measurement Guidelines, Establishes Parameters for Counting Valid Clicks, Filtering Fraudulent Clicks These guidelines are meant to establish the minimum acceptable counting procedures for the media buying currency “clicks”. The guidelines are focused on when a click will count – the actual revenue  event. As with...
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Useful resources: Best Business Model in the world, VCs switch to Efficient Energy..and more

May 12, 2009

The Best Business model in the World ..is also the simplest: make stuff that’s insanely great. ..That kind of stuff doesn’t need a hard sell, a new market, or a convoluted product range. It just needs to be. Business model innovation is often self-defeating and self-destructive. The real problem with
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Useful Startup Resources: Comparison of Mobile Widget Vendors, Steve Ballmer Speech..and more

May 11, 2009

Starting a series of articles to share useful resources for startups. Here is the first installment (light readings): Steve Ballmer Talks at Stanford Has some candid suggestion for startups. Watch the entire video
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